Describes the traits of good writing in any genre and includes information on assessing student writing skills, lesson planning, and activities.
Describes the traits of good writing in any genre and includes information on assessing student writing skills, lesson planning, and activities.
Provides teachers with trait-specific assessment materials, including scoring guides, benchmark papers, and sample conference comments, along with warm-up exercises, focus lessons, and activities for the middle school classroom.
In this outstanding book, Betty offers scores of strategies for building strong writers in your classroom.
Give your first-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become strong and successful writers.
"Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Scoring Sheets, and More to Boost Students' Writing Skills in All Seven Traits"--Cover.
Provides eighteen trait-focused lessons based on specific picture books, along with 150 annotations of both new and classic books.
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured.
Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers grades 3-5, assessed and annotated them, and designed an interactive whiteboard CD of exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing ...
New to this edition: An extended section on Rust macros, an expanded chapter on modules, and appendixes on Rust development tools and editions.
This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).