Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 4 students improve their reading and writing skills! Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms: Compare and contrast Sequence Explanatory Informative Cause and effect Opinion Argument 12 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels O to T and include: Biographies Health articles Science articles Social studies articles Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: directed reading strategies a dictionary page that introduces content words close reading of a leveled nonfiction article text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing a text-dependent writing prompt Additional resources and features for teachers include: Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels O to T A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions A vocabulary and definitions list A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit
