Month-By-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction

By Maria Walther and Katherine Phillips

Book Overview

In this comprehensive resource, two veteran primary teachers share a multi-faceted approach to teaching writing that seamlessly combines the use of powerful mentor texts, strategy lessons, and the traits-ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Their yearlong plan-organized month-by-month-includes ideas for interactive morning messages, read-aloud suggestions, and more than 75 mini-lessons for teaching genre, grammar, the traits, and much more. Also included are reproducible planning sheets for a variety of genres and editing checklists, plus more than 250 literature suggestions. You'll find everything you need to help your young writers soar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 054506693X
• ISBN13: 9780545066938
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 2