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100 Trait-Specific Comments: A Quick Guide for Giving Constructive Feedback on Student Writing by Ruth Culham
Category: Education
Providing constructive feedback on writing is essential for helping students improve their skills. With this time-saving tool from writing expert Ruth Culham, you'll have more than 100 just-right comments at your fingertips. Correlated with student-friendly scoring guides--also included--and organized b ...Show more
6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; Theory and Practice by Ruth Culham
Category: Education | Series: 6+1 Traits of Writing Ser.
Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and focus instruction. Now Culham turns her exp ...Show more
Teach Writing Well - How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision by Ruth Culham
Category: Reference
Ask successful writers and they'll tell you, the key to writing well is revision. Ask elementary school teachers and they'll tell you, the real challenge of writing instruction is teaching kids how to revise. Ruth Culham is both a successful writer and a writing teacher, and she's discovered how to teac ...Show more
The 6 + 1 Traits of Writing - The Complete Guide - Grades 3 and up - Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing with This Powerful Model by Ruth Culham; Beverly Ann Chin (Foreword by)
Category: Education | Series: 6 + 1 Traits of Writing Ser.
Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre and you'll find these traits. This book--written by the leading authority on the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing model--contains all the tools you need to assess student writing for these ...Show more
The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing by Ruth Culham
Category: Education
It's been said that good writers borrow while great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief-and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, t ...Show more
The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing by Ruth Culham
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
It's been said that good writers borrow but great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief-and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too ...Show more
Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School by Ruth Culham
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Theory and Practice (Scholastic)
The traits have revolutionized the way writing is taught. And nobody knows the traits better than Ruth Culham, who has written over 25 books and conducted countless workshops for teachers of all grades. Now, Ruth turns her expert eye to middle school. The Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle ...Show more
Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing with the Traits: Middle School - An Annotated Bibliography of 150 Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Young Adult Novels with Teacher-Tested Lessons by Ray Coutu; Ruth Culham; James Blasingame
Category: Education
Becoming a better writer begins with reading well-written books and trying what their authors do successfully. So why not help middle schoolers improve their writing by exposing them to mentor texts written just for them? Culham, Blasingame, and Coutu have selected 150 fiction and nonfiction books by ma ...Show more
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