Publisher's Synopsis
In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The seventh-grade version includes:
- 6 mentor texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick; The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli; Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant; A Drop of Water by Walter Wick; Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse; Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
- 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities;
- A CD with mentor-text passages, whiteboard activities, and student reproducibles
- 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school.
