Text-Based Writing, Grade 4

Text-Based Writing, Grade 4Support 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. 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

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.

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 article 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 path 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

Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content. Recommended age 9 years