Grade 4 » Composition

Description: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Writing process

Description: The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

4.11.A

Description: 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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
✓ Graphic Organizers

4.11.B.i

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.B.ii

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: developing an engaging idea with relevant details.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.C

Description: Revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.i

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.ii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: past tense of irregular verbs.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.iii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: singular, plural, common, and proper nouns.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.iv

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.ix

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.v

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.vi

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: prepositions and prepositional phrases.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.vii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: pronouns, including reflexive.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.viii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.x

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: punctuation marks, including apostrophes in possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.11.D.xi

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Genres

Description: The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

4.12.A

Description: Compose literary texts such as personal narratives and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.12.B

Description: Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.12.C

Description: Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.12.D

Description: Compose correspondence that requests information.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts