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RL: Reading Literary Unit EQ: What strategies can I use to RF: Reading Foundational W: Writing Troup County School System help me to become a better reader SL: Speaking and Listening Writing/Language Arts Curriculum Map and writer? L: Language Prior learning: indicated in red. Fourth Grade – Third Quarter Unit 1 Click here to go to the Q3 U1 Teacher Checklist.

CCGPS Standards Essential Questions Vocabulary System Resources Writing (W) Differentiating Writing Instruction What does a good response to ELACC4W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts concluding statement, literature include? How do I end my opinion Fourth Grade Writing Lessons by Trait (response to literature), supporting a point of view with response to literature so that the reader reasons. Students learned opinion writing in third grade. This is satisified? Fourth Grade Writing Lessons by year, there is more of an emphasis on organization. Standard d. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented. (6+1 Writing Trait: Organization) Writing Fix: Organization Page

Scholastic: How to write a response to ELACC4.W.3: Write narratives to develop real or literature imagined experiences or events using effective technique, What does a good narrative include? transitional words, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Students What techniques and/or strategies can phrases, conclusion, learned opinion writing in third grade. This year, there is more I use to write a good narrative? How narrated experiences, of an emphasis on organization. can I make sure my writing flows events Writing Fix narrative writing ideas logically? How can I end my piece so Writing Fix Ideas Page c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the that my reader is satisified? sequence of events. (6+1 Trait: Organization) Writing Fix: Organization Page

e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated Common Core Appendix C experiences or events. (6+1 Trait: Organization) (sample student writing)

1 Troup County Schools 2014 4th Writing/Language Arts Curriculum Map Third Quarter Unit 1 CCGPS Standards Essential Questions Vocabulary System Resources Speaking and Listening

ELACC.4.SL.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development How can I tell if it is appropriate to audio recording, visual of main ideas or themes. Introduced in third grade. add audio recordings and visual display, appropriate, displays to enhance my main idea or enhance, main idea, theme? theme Formal vs. Informal language ELACC.4.SL.6: Differentiate between contexts that call for Formal vs. Informal formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task In which situations is it necessary to contexts, formal and situation. (See grade 4 Language standard 1 for specific use formal English when I speak? English, informal Progressive verb game ideas expectations.) In third grade, students had to speak in In which situations is it necessary to discourse, task, Progressive Verb Lesson complete sentences depending on the context or situation. use more informal English speech? situation Writing Fix Conventions Page Why do I have to adapt our speech to the situation? Modal Verb Overview Modal verb online game (Scroll down Language (L) the page.) ELACC.4.L.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or 4L1b Resources speaking. (6+1 Trait: Conventions) What are progressive verb aspects? progressive verb 4L1c Resources b. Form and use the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am Why are they helpful in writing? aspects 4L1e Resources walking; I will be walking) verb aspects. New learning. How can I use them correctly in PreK-5 Fourth Grade Lessons : speaking and writing? c. Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey Prepositional Poems modal auxiliaries: Prepositional Phrases various conditions. New learning. How can verbs show mood in a can, could, will, would, Prepositional Phrases 2 sentence? may, might, must, ought to, should Prepositional Prezi e. Form and use prepositional phrases. New learning What are prepositional phrases and prepositional phrases how will using them help me Fourth Grade Writing Lessons by Standard (Conventions) become a more mature writer?

2 Troup County Schools 2014 4th Writing/Language Arts Curriculum Map Third Quarter Unit 1 CCGPS Standards Essential Questions Vocabulary System Resources ELACC.4.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. (6+1 Trait: Conventions) How do I correctly write compound coordinating Fanboys poster c. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a sentences? Why do I need a comma in conjunction, compound compound sentence. (6+1 Trait: Sentence Fluency) a compound sentence? What is a sentence Ideas for teaching coordinating Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions were taught in coordinating conjunction? conjunctions and compound sentences third grade. 4L2c Resources

ELA.CC.4.L.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. How can I use punctuation to affect punctuation for effect Learnzillion (6+1 Trait: Word Choice, Voice) the tone or voice of my writing? b. Choose punctuation for effect. New learning.

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