Description
Ideal for preparing your fourth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with crucial nonfiction writing forms, such as: Compare and contrast, Explanatory, Informative, Cause and effect, Opinion, and Argument. The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to finish text-dependent writing prompts. Every unit begins with a unit focal point and lesson checklist to steer students throughout the learning path, which contains: a dictionary page that introduces content words, close reading of a leveled nonfiction article, text-dependent comprehension questions to beef up working out, a graphic organizer to assist students organize information from the article and plan their writing, a text-dependent writing prompt, and a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay.
Downloadable Home-School Connection Activities
Common Core
Provided Reading Levels
Graphic Organizer
Dictionary