Evan-Moor Text-Based Writing: Common Core Mastery Book, Grade 4

Evan-Moor Text-Based Writing: Common Core Mastery Book, Grade 4

• Downloadable Home-School Connection Activities
• Common Core
• Provided Reading Levels
• Graphic Organizer
• Dictionary

Ideal for preparing your fourth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as: Compare and contrast, Explanatory, Informative, Cause and effect, Opinion, and Argument. The 12 units provide activities 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: 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, and a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay.