A review by debz57a52
The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing by Ruth Culham

4.0

Despite the fact that I'm a high school teacher, I can totally see myself using the majority of these elementary-focused activities. Culham has really thought out the 6 Traits of Writing and has found good, interesting quality texts to match them. What's better, she provides suggestions for discussion questions and extension activities to get the students to really think about the examples and their purpose within the traits of writing. My book is also FULL of notes, marking things I want to do, adding additional resources that are on my secondary-radar, and starring quotes and important sentences. Totally worth my time.