Ideal for preparing your fourth-Grade students for state Writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-Based Writing practice with essential Nonfiction Writing forms, such as: - Compare and contrast - Explanatory - Informative - Cause and effect - Opinion - Argument The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent Writing prompts. - The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy The fourth Grade content-area topics fall under these categories: - Biographies - Science articles - Social studies articles. - The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. - Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: - a dictionary page that introduces content words - close reading of a leveled Nonfiction article - text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding - a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their Writing - a text-dependent Writing prompt - a Writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features - Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
Ideal for preparing your fourth-Grade students for state Writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-Based Writing practice with essential Nonfiction Writing forms, such as: - Compare and contrast - Explanatory - Informative - Cause and effect - Opinion - Argument The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent Writing prompts
