Text-Based Writing, Grade 4

Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons for grade 4 students. Improve reading and writing skills with practice in essential nonfiction writing forms such as compare and contrast, sequence, explanatory, informative, cause and effect, opinion, and argument. Includes 12 leveled nonfiction texts ranging from levels O to T, including biographies, health articles, science articles, and social studies articles. Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks to prepare students for text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist, directed reading strategies, a dictionary page introducing content words, close reading of a leveled nonfiction article, text-dependent comprehension questions, a graphic organizer, and a text-dependent writing prompt. Additional resources and features for teachers include texts across the curriculum ranging from reading levels O to T, a suggested teaching path for scaffolded instruction, a student rubric focusing on the 6 traits of writing, 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 updated content.