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.B
Use coordinating (e.g., and, but), subordinating (e.g., although, because) conjunctions to join words and phrases in a sentence.
Changing Coordinating Conjunctions
What happens when we switch out a “but” with a “so”? An “and” with a “for”? How can such tiny words make such big differences?
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.