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Incorporates new children's literature into writing instruction - over 250 enticing titles Contains more than 75 classroom-tested writing workshop mini-lessons. In this comprehensive resource, 2 veteran primary teachers share a multi-faceted approach to teaching writing that addresses ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency and conventions. Their year-long plan, organized month-by-month, includes ideas for interactive morning messages, read-aloud suggestions and more than 75 mini-lessons for teaching genre, grammar, the traits and much more. Seamlessly combines the use of powerful mentor texts, strategy lessons and the traits. Includes a wealth of reproducible student pages such as genre-specific planning sheets and writing paper complete with an editing checklist. Includes reproducible planning sheets for a variety of genres. Scholastic Month-By-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction is one of many Classroom Language available through Office Depot. Made by Scholastic.