Includes 2 discs to help with professional development
- Disc 1 (67 minutes) provides important background on the TRAIT model. Comes with scoring tips, rubric, detailed lessons, management tips, teacher interviews and student comments covering the Ideas and Organization traits.
- Disc 2 (67 minutes) focuses in detail on the Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions and Presentation traits.
- For each trait, get Key Qualities — definition and explanation.
- Assessment Roundtables covers teacher discussions that use scoring guides to assess student papers at different levels.
- Focus Lessons focuses on teachers and students in classroom at work with lessons designed to teach key skills related to each of the traits.
- A Closer Look is teacher elaboration on important strategies for teaching writing using the TRAIT model. Helps with using student-friendly scoring guides, using R.A.F.T.S prompts and using literature to teach writing.
- Classroom Management Tips is teacher and student interviews on how to organize and implement the trait model in the classroom.
- Also includes a Professional Study Guide that you can put to work right away!
- 72-page guide provides background information on the TRAIT model. Contains reproducible scoring guides and writing samples, lesson plan reproducibles, FAQs and answers and other materials perfect for staff development.