Modes & Traits: Writing Lessons Across the Year A year’s worth of writing instruction
WRITING GRADES K to 5
Instructional Focus ⊲ Writing ⊲ Assessments ⊲ Motivation & Engagement ⊲ NAEP Standards SOLE SOURCE
Writing well is essential to student success. But fitting it into an already packed curriculum isn’t always easy. Modes & Traits is here to help with a year’s worth of lessons that break writing down into teachable elements: six traits and three modes, to be precise. With mentor texts, digital supports, and clear recommendations for sequencing lessons, our Modes & Traits kits have everything you need to make writing instruction more effective, exciting, and easy to implement all year long!
& Modes Traits Writing Lessons Across the Year
Ruth Culham and Libby Jachles
How to Combine Your Crates and Sequence the Lessons
outcomes ⊲ Improve student writing with lessons on the three modes (narrative, informational, and opinion) and six traits (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions) of writing. ⊲ Easily integrate writing instruction into your literacy curriculum with a year’s worth of literature-based writing lessons and a digital guide with explicit recommendations for sequencing lessons. ⊲ Model exceptional writing with fiction and nonfiction mentor texts. what’s included ⊲ Digital pacing guide to help sequence lessons throughout the year ⊲ Modes in Focus kit (see page 41 to learn more) ⊲ Trait Crate Plus kit (see page 41 to learn more)
meet the creators
Ruth Culham, Ed.D. , launched a writing revolution with her groundbreaking work on writing traits. Her ongoing work with the traits and modes of writing is the culmination of 40 years of research, practice, and passion. Libby Jachles, M.S. , is a former classroom teacher and retired literacy coach. She specializes in training and coaching classroom teachers on teaching writing using the traits and modes.
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