Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Literature Response: Prompts That Provide All the Elements Students Need to Start Writing:--A Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Strong Verb (R.A.F.T.S.)

by Ruth Culham, Amanda Wheeler

Overview

Looking for ways to build students' writing proficiency, literature appreciation, and test-taking skills? Try R.A.F.T.S.—prompts that provide the basic ingredients to start writing: a role, audience, format, topic, and strong verbs. They make expectations clear so students can apply writing traits with confidence and creativity. The Literature Response edition contains 45 R.A.F.T.S. based on award-winning and best-loved books, with guidelines for using them and reproducible versions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545189972
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2004
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ruth Culham, Ed.D., is the president of the Culham Writing Company and former Unit Manager of the Assessment Program at Education Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She is the recognized expert in the traits of writing field and author of many professional resources published by Scholastic, including 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up; 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; and Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, winner of the 2011 Teacher’s Choice award. As a pioneering researcher in this field, Ruth creates and conducts teacher workshops to provide professional development at local, district, and state levels; at state and national conferences she’s a featured speaker on teaching writing using the traits. The highlight of her 19-year teaching career was being named English Teacher of the Year in Montana. But most recently, she’d proudest of authoring Traits Writing, a revolutionary writing program for grades K-8 available from Scholastic.