100 Trait-Specific Comments: A Quick Guide for Giving Constructive Feedback on Student Writing

by Ruth Culham

Overview

Providing constructive feedback on writing is essential for helping students improve their skills. With this time-saving tool from writing expert Ruth Culham, you’ll have more than 100 just-right comments at your fingertips. Correlated with student-friendly scoring guides—also included—and organized by trait, Ruth provides responses to writing at three different levels of achievement. The comments give students direction on where to focus their attention and what strategies to try as they revise or begin a new writing project. This four-color guide is a must-have for any writing teacher!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545412605
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 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.