Text Based Writing Grade 4 Individual Student Practice Book

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

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. 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. - Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference. - The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. - 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

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

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 Sampler

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/A

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

Support 4th-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more.

Common Core Top Pick for Language and WritingLanguageLanguage and ConventionsWritingProduction and Distribution of WritingRange of WritingGive your fourth-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become to become strong and successful writers. The 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons support any writing program.25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Voice