Program Components: Write Traits® Classroom Kit


Write Traits Kindergarten


Teacher's Guide:
Strategies for teaching writing, writing process lessons, activities for kinesthetic learning, and suggestions for classroom structure and management.

Big Book:
Writing activities for whole-class or small-group instruction.

Spanish Rubric Package
Six rubrics and two teaching posters in Spanish for grades K-2.


Each grade-level specific kit includes:

Teacher's Guide:
with step-by-step instructions, trait-specific lessons, and detailed revision guidelines and rubrics;

Student Traitbook:
copymasters filled with 6-trait definitions, lessons, writing models, and activities (also available as consumable Traitbooks);

Ready-to-use Transparencies:
featuring student writing models (organized by trait) for group analysis and discussion;

Posters:
displaying the Revision Checklist, traits summary, and writing rubrics (posters are 22" x 38");

6-Trait Self-Adhesive Note Pads:
for indicating the traits reviewed, making comments, and recording student paper scores (five 3" x 3" pads included);

6-Trait Writing Pocket:
a convenient folder for storing student writing (one sample for the teacher).

Available Separately

Trait-specific lessons offer a variety of sample papers and writing models to give students practice in assessing writing using the six traits and to help them become better assessors of their own writing.