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Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Content Areas

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Looking for ways to build students' writing proficiency, content knowledge, and test-taking skills? Try R.A.F.T.S.-prompts that provide the basic ingredients to start a role, audience, format, topic, and strong verbs. They make expectations clear so students can apply writing traits with confidence and creativity. The Content Area edition contains 45 R.A.F.T.S., organized by science, math, social studies, and other subjects, with guidelines for using them and reproducible versions.

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First published March 1, 2004

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Ruth Culham

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Ruth Culham, aka The Trait Lady, is the president of The Culham Writing Company and former Unit Manager of the Assessment Program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (recently renamed Education Northwest) in Portland, Oregon.

She is the recognized expert in the traits of writing assessment field and author of numerous professional resources published by Scholastic, including 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up; 6+1 Traits of Writing for the Primary Grades; Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, and Using Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits.

As a pioneering researcher in this field, she creates and conducts teacher workshops and videos, designs national and international institutes for writing assessment and instruction, and provides professional development to teachers at local and district levels.

Ruth was named Teacher of the Year in Montana, the highlight of her 19-year teaching career. Ruth holds specialty degrees in Library Science and Elementary, Middle, and Secondary English Education. She has a Masters degree in Teaching English and an Ed.D. in Educational Administration.

from http://ruthculham.wordpress.com/about/

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