Text-Based Writing, Grade 4 Teacher Resource

Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 4 students improve their reading and writing skills!

Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:

Compare and contrast Sequence Explanatory Informative Cause and effect Opinion Argument

12 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels O to T and include:

Biographies Health articles Science articles Social studies articles

Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks 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:

directed reading strategies 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 articl and plan their writing a text-dependent writing prompt

Additional resources and features for teachers include:

Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels O to T A suggested teaching that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions A vocabulary and definitions list A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit

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