ELAR 4.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
- (1) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a
particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as
brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
- (A) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
- (B) organizing with purposeful structure, including an
introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and
- (i) developing an engaging idea with relevant details;
- (ii) revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
- (C) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (D) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb
agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- (i) past tense of irregular verbs;
- (ii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
- (iii) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (iv) capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities;
- (v) adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- (vii) pronouns, including reflexive;
- (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
- (ix) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue; and
- (x) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
- (xi) publish written work for appropriate audiences.
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Editing Symbols Chart
Use this editing symbols chart to help simplify the proofreading process for your students.
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Paragraphs in Narrative Writing Poster
A poster explaining how to write paragraphs in narrative texts.
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Grammar and Punctuation Checklist Bookmarks
Use these grammar and punctuation checklist bookmarks to support your students in editing their writing.
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Punctuation Tracking Chart Monster Theme
A classroom display that allows students to see their progress toward using correct punctuation in their sentences.
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Four Types of Sentences Poster Collection - Primary and Intermediate
Display these posters highlighting the four types of sentences and teach your students to use varied sentence types in their writing.
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Using Adjectives to Describe - Pass Around Activity
A set of 32 food sheets to use in a pass around-style adjective activity.
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Vivid Action Verbs Posters - Using Strong Verbs
Teach your students to omit boring, overused verbs from their writing with a classroom set of Vivid Verb Posters.
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Adver-relays Active Learning Game
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Plural Noun Anchor Charts - Posters
Help children grasp the tricky concept of pluralizing nouns by displaying these 8 plural noun anchor chart posters.
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Verb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to reinforce their understanding of verbs.
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Adverb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
Reinforce your students understanding of adverbs with this fun card game.
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Adjective Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to reinforce their understanding of adjectives.
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Guided Writing Groups - Progress Tracker
Track student progress during guided writing sessions with this template.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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Punctuation Worksheets - Upper Elementary
Punctuation worksheets with examples and definitions to help your students learn.
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Invitation Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about invitations, including an annotated example.
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Literary Description Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about literary descriptions, including an annotated example.
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Review Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about reviews, including an annotated example.
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Personal Response Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about personal responses, including an annotated example.
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Interview Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about interviews, including an annotated example.
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Literary Recount Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about literary recounts, including an annotated example.
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Advertisement Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about advertisements, including an annotated example.
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Narrative Writing Poster
A poster to encourage your students to think about narrative writing.
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Paragraph Study Punctuation Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise punctuation by highlighting paragraphs.
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Punctuation Sentence Challenge Worksheet
A teaching resource to help consolidate the students’ knowledge of punctuation.
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Color by Parts of Speech Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of coloring worksheets that use parts of speech as indicators.
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September Homeschool Resource Pack - Grade 4
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 4 teaching resources and activities for homeschool parents to use with their children during the month of September.
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Developing Opinion Writing Skills Unit Plan - Grade 3 and Grade 4
This English unit addresses the genre of opinion writing; specifically, how to write a well-structured opinion piece.
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Exploring Types of Verbs Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit explores several types of verbs including action, helping, linking, irregular, simple tense, and perfect tense verbs. This unit is intended for upper-elementary students that have some prior knowledge of action verbs.
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Developing Narrative Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the narrative text type, specifically, how to plan and write an engaging story.
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Exploring Poetry - Year 3 and Year 4 Unit Plan
This English unit addresses common poetic devices such as sound play, word play and imagery and explores how these may be applied to narrative poetry.
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Narrative Skills - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a narrative, using appropriate text structure, language and features.