Student books provide a portfolio of students' writing and work throughout the school year. Each student book provides nonfiction articles and vocabulary, comprehension, and text-based writing activities to correspond with the teacher's edition. The student book pages provide: - unit focus and lesson checklists to guide students - dictionary pages that introduce content words - nonfiction articles - text-based comprehension questions to support understanding - graphic organizers to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - text-based writing prompts - writing evaluations that guide students in evaluating their essays

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 - 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 - a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features - Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home. - Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference. - The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. - The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy The fourth grade content-area topics fall under these categories: - Biographies - Science articles - Social studies articles

Support 4th-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more.

The 5-pack provides five books of the same grade level.

Give your fourth-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become to become strong and successful writers. The 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons support any writing program.

The 5-pack provides five books of the same grade level.

Spectrum(R) Writing for grade 4 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write paragraphs, personal narratives, fiction stories, how-to instructions, descriptive comparisons, research reports, persuasive letters, and more. Spectrum(R) Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer’s Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success. Spectrum(R), the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students’ learning achievement and success.