{"id":781,"date":"2025-05-07T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.scholastic.ca\/education\/?page_id=781"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:02:27","slug":"trait-crate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.scholastic.ca\/education\/trait-crate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trait Crate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div  class=\"container-fluid block_text\">\n\t<div class=\"bg-none mt-5 pb-5 container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col pb-2 text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"d-block mt-0\"><span>Bring literature to life in the writing classroom!<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Developed by best-selling author\/educator Ruth Culham,\u00a0<strong>Traits Crate Plus\u00a0<\/strong>helps students develop and improve writing skills through six writing traits\u2014<strong>ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence 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