Grade 4
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 4.LU.1.A
Produce, expand, and rearrange simple and compound sentences, including prepositional phrases, when speaking and writing.
Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain
Can your students spot the run-on sentences?
Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 2
We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.