Trait Crate® Plus: Grade 5

Using fiction and nonfiction children's books as mentors, Trait Crate® Plus adds new life and energy to the teaching of writing through thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use tomorrow. Everything you need is provided. Traits Crate Plus helps students learn and use the six traits-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions-to improve specific skills in writing. With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 time-saving lessons, Ruth Culham's Trait Crate® Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience. In addition to the valuable features and components of the original Trait Crate this enhanced edition offers:

• An emphasis on modes - narrative, informational, and opinion-to help you address higher standards.
• A companion website that provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children's authors, and student-friendly scoring guides.
• Culham's bestseller The Writing Thief, which takes a deep dive into the theory and practice of using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing.

Mentor Texts:

• Ideas: Buried Sunlight, by Molly Bang and Penny Chisolm
• Organization: Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, by Henry Cole
• Voice: The Adventures of Ook and Gluk;Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, by George Beard and Harold Hutchins
• Word Choice: Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, by Sharon Robinson and Kadir Nelson
• Sentence Fluency: Jangles: A Big Fish Story, by David Shannon
• Conventions: What's New? The Zoo! , by Kathleen Krull