Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits: Middle SchoolHow do you create better writers in your middle school class? By using mentor texts written by successful authors! Students improve and hone their writing abilities with these 150 fiction and nonfiction textschapter books, picture books, YA novelschosen by authors Culham, Blasingame, and Coutu. Each text is annotated and organized by trait, and to target instruction further, the traits are broken down into four key qualities. Each annotation explains