English Language Arts Grade 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Writing (4.W)

Students will learn to write for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences using appropriate grammar/conventions, syntax, and style.

Standard 4.W.2:

Write informative/explanatory pieces to examine a topic that conveys ideas and information clearly, link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases, and provide a concluding section related to the information or explanation presented.

• All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
  Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
• An Educator’s Guide to Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
  This guide to the story Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh provides educators with synopsis, reviews, and lesson activities for teaching and discussing the story in the classroom, complete with a list of related core standards.
• Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
  Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
• Creating a Classroom Newspaper
  Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
• Deforestation: Paragraph Writing
  In this lesson, students will learn about the effects of deforestation and why people cut down trees. The will transfer the learned knowlede into a paragraph that includes a topic sentence, facts and details from the resources, and a concluding sentence. 
• Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
  Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.

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