In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. In these amazing kits, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Each kit includes: 6 mentor texts 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities A CD with mentor-text passages, passages, student reproducibles, and scoring guides. 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and you've got a complete resource for teaching with the traits. Best of all, these materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging folders - one for each trait-for easy, expandable storage that will accommodate traitbased lesson materials for years to come.7th Grade Mentor Texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli Mythlopedia Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant A Drop of Water by Walter Wick The Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine | The Trait Crate Grade 7 by Ruth Culham, Boxed Set/Slip Case/Casebound | Indigo Chapters