Text-Based Writing, Grade 4 Teacher Resource - Evan-moor Corporation

\nScaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 4 students improve their reading and writing skills! \n \nLessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms: \n \n- Compare and contrast \n- Sequence \n- Explanatory \n- Informative \n- Cause and effect \n- Opinion \n- Argument \n12 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels O to T and include: \n \n- Biographies \n- Health articles \n- Science articles \n- Social studies articles \nUnits provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.\n \nEach unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: \n \n- directed reading strategies \n- a dictionary page that introduces content words \n- close reading of a leveled nonfiction article \n- text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding \n- a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the articl and plan their writing \n- a text-dependent writing prompt \nAdditional resources and features for teachers include: \n \n- Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels O to T \n- A suggested teaching that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction \n- A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions \n- A vocabulary and definitions list \n- A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit \nAbout Evan-Moor Educational Publishers\n \nIgniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.\n