Everything you need to teach and assess student writing with this powerful model.

Effective, easy-to-use tools for trait-based assessment and instruction--just for middle school teachers. Includes printable reproducible forms!

This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision.

This book gives you and your students a shared language with which to talk about writing. No writing teacher in America has done more than Vicki Spandel to show how to actually make writing workshops work.

Develop your grade 4 students' writing skills in each of the six traits--Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions--using 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute writing lessons. - 125 trait-based lessons - 25 weeks ...

In this outstanding book, Betty offers scores of strategies for building strong writers in your classroom.

Teacher reference resource containing comprehension lessons for teachers of children in the early years of school.

Whether you're just getting started with the traits or want to invigorate your trait-based writing instruction, the 20 fun and engaging lessons in this resource are just what you need.

Checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics and scoring sheets and more to boost students' writing skills in all seven traits.