Common Core Practice Writing To Texts Grade 4

Teacher Resource Book

Teacher Resource Book

10 Warm-Ups that feature guided instruction, 4 Practice Tests

Student books provide a portfolio of students' writing and work throughout the school year. Each student book provides nonfiction articles and vocabulary, comprehension, and text-based writing activities to correspond with the teacher's edition. The student book pages provide: - unit focus and lesson checklists to guide students - dictionary pages that introduce content words - nonfiction articles - text-based comprehension questions to support understanding - graphic organizers to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - text-based writing prompts - writing evaluations that guide students in evaluating their essays

Teacher Resource Book

This is a perfect supplement to any classroom language arts curriculum. The book covers 40 weeks of daily practive. It includes 4 comprehension writing exercizes a day for four days a week. A separate assessment is included with every exercize.

This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature, informational texts, and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It presents clear-cut ways to analyze text complexity, design challenging text sets, and help students get the most out of what they read. Provided are practical instructional ideas for building background knowledge, promoting engagement, incorporating discussion and text-based writing, and teaching research skills. Appendices offer sample unit plans for English language arts, history/social studies, and science classrooms. More than 20 reproducible coaching templates and other tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

The quality of instruction is the most important factor in helping students meet the Common Core Standards. That's why Owocki's "Common Core Lesson Book" empowers teachers with a comprehensive framework for implementation that enhances existing curriculum and extends it to meet Common Core goals.