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Reviewed on February 1, 2017 | Professional Reading
Writing workshop guru Culham showcases 116 diverse mentor texts within her well-established framework of the "6+1" writing traits. She uses the analogy of guests at a dinner party to explain the importance and interdependence of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and convention—her six traits of wonderful writers—and has compiled a well-curated compendium of recent and classic picture books about Latino culture(s) by (mostly) Latino authors and illustrators. There are few chapter ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More