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Grade 4

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 4.C.1
  • 4.C.1.A
  • 4.C.2.A
  • 4.C.3
  • 4.C.3.A
  • 4.C.3.B

• Language Usage

  • 4.LU.1
  • 4.LU.1.A
  • 4.LU.1.B
  • 4.LU.1.C
  • 4.LU.1.D
  • 4.LU.2
  • 4.LU.2.C
  • 4.LU.2.D

• Research

  • 4.R.1
  • 4.R.1.A
  • 4.R.1.B
  • 4.R.1.C
  • 4.R.1.E
  • 4.R.1.F

• Reading Informational Text

  • 4.RI.1
  • 4.RI.1.C
  • 4.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 4.RL.1
  • 4.RL.1.A
  • 4.RL.1.C
  • 4.RL.2
  • 4.RL.2.A
  • 4.RL.2.B

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 4.RV.1
  • 4.RV.1.E
  • 4.RV.1.G
  • 4.RV.1.H

• Writing

  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.1.B
  • 4.W.1.C
  • 4.W.1.D
  • 4.W.2
  • 4.W.2.A
  • 4.W.3
  • 4.W.3.A
  • 4.W.3.B

Virginia ELA Standard: 4.W.3.A

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising for quality of ideas, organization, sentence fluency, and word choice.

Author’s Voice: Jack London

Every great author sounds like no one else. Students learn to hear an author’s voice with Charles Dickens’s dramatic A Christmas Carol, then borrow Jack London’s rugged voice, turning a flat, boring passage into writing that sounds just like him. It is reading like a writer, and it is the kind of thinking your strongest readers are hungry for.

That Quote’s Not Quite Right: Albert Einstein

When I see a quote, I often think, “That’s not quite right!”

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Mother’s Day Cards

Let’s write the cleverest Mother’s Day cards you’ve ever seen!

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Holiday Writing: Packing Crates

An old photograph. A holiday scene. Pick one object in the picture and write from its point of view.

Writing About Art: Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons

Look closely at Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Writing About Art: Impression, Sunrise

Look closely at Impression, Sunrise. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Writing About Art: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Look closely at Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Writing A Thanksgiving Letter

What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?

Describing Author’s Voice

What if… Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

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.