Daily Writing Practice Builds FSA Writing Stamina
Opinions & Informative/Explanatory Writing – Students write every day and in response to what they read. Citing text evidence is an expectation preparing them for the FSA.
Performance Tasks
Students read and respond to the texts across the module. Weekly writing builds to the Performance Task where students collect evidence, draw conclusions, and compare multiple sources with a singular focus – the Essential Question.
Grade 4 myBook Performance Task
Writing Workshop
Teach the stages of the writing process, support the full range of writing modes and forms, and teach grammar in context with the Writing Workshop strand.
Grades 1-5 Writing Workshop Teacher’s Guide Module Overviews
Focus on grammar
Choose the approach to grammar instruction that meets your needs:
- Teach grammar in context during the revising and editing lessons of Writing Workshop
- Teach focused grammar lessons daily using the grammar lesson bank and the student grammar practice pages
Grade 4 Writing Workshop Teacher's Guide Grammar Lesson
Grade 4 Grammar Practice Page