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by: Jessica Kelmon | Updated: August 4, 2022

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Your 4th grader's writing under Common Core Standards

In fourth grade, study skills play an important role in your child’s writing. Kids do research using multiple sources. They also learn to take notes on what they research, read. and hear. And even stories are more advanced, with more developed characters who show their feelings and react to what happens. And perhaps most important, your child is expected to analyze a book’s structure, logic, details, and evidence in their writing. It’s all pretty impressive!

Building 4th grade study skills

This year taking notes is an important skill. Fourth graders are expected to use books, periodicals, websites, and other digital sources to conduct research projects — both on their own and as part of group work with peers. Your child should keep track of all the sources they check — noting what they learn, the name of the source and page number or url so they can find it again and create a source list or bibliography later.

Also, taking notes while reading fiction will help your child when it comes time to analyze what they’ve read or to give an in-depth description of a character, setting, or story event drawing on specific details.

Check out this related worksheet: •  Finding key points

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Last year’s prewriting step — planning — becomes more essential in your child’s writing process this year. Before your child sits down to write, they should use their organized notes to help create the structure of whatever they’re writing. While planning , your child may brainstorm ideas for a story or decide how to organize facts into a cohesive set of points. The more knowledge your child builds during the prewriting stage, the easier it will be to write. Encourage reading and rereading, taking notes, finding additional sources, discussing aloud how new knowledge fits in with what your child knew before, and visually organizing what they plan to write about. After the first draft is written, the teacher and possibly other students will offer feedback: asking questions to elicit new details or clarify an argument or suggest new sources of information. They should check that there’s a clear introduction and conclusion, and that the order of points or events makes sense. Your child will then do a revision (or two), adding, reordering, and refining their writing to show deep understanding.

After making revisions, your child does a final edit focusing on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and strengthening word choices. These steps — planning, writing a first draft, revising, and editing the final piece — help fourth graders understand that research, organizing, clarifying ideas, and improving grammar and presentation are all essential to strong writing.

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Fourth grade writing: opinion pieces

Your child’s opinions always need to be supported by evidence. Persuasive writing should start by clearly introducing an opinion on a topic. To support their opinion, kids need to present their argument, which is a list of reasons why they hold that opinion. Each of their reasons needs to be supported by facts and details (a.k.a. evidence). After presenting all of their research-supported reasons, kids should close their arguments with a concluding statement or paragraph that sums up how their evidence supports their opinion.

Check out this example of good fourth grade opinion writing: • “ Zoos should close ”

Fourth grade writing: informative writing

This year, your child’s informative writing gets more organized, with headers, illustrations and even multimedia components to support specific points. To begin, your child should introduce the topic. Then they should use facts, definitions, details, quotes, examples, and other information to develop their topic into a few clear, well thought-out paragraphs. Your fourth grader should use advanced linking words (e.g. also, another, for example, because ) to form compound and complex sentences connecting their research and ideas to the point they’re making. Finally, to wrap it up, your child should have a conclusion — either a statement or, if necessary, a section labeled conclusion.

Check out these three examples of good fourth grade informational writing: • “ John Cabot and the Rediscovery of North America ” • “ Big Book of Evolution ” • “ Book report: A Tale of Despereaux ”

Can your fourth grader write an informational essay?

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Fourth grade writing: narratives

A narrative means writing a story. This year your child will be expected to use storytelling techniques, descriptive details, and clear sequences to tell compelling tales. Whether inspired by a favorite book, real events, or your child’s imagination, your child’s story should use dialogue, descriptive words, and transitional language. Look for precise language and sensory details that bring characters to life. Finally, your child should keep pacing and sequence of events in mind. The events should unfold naturally, bringing the story to a natural conclusion. Are surprise endings okay? Sure… so long as the details and events plausibly lead there.

Check out this related worksheet: •  Putting sentences in order

Gettin’ good at grammar

You may want to review all those parts of speech your child learned last year because fourth grade grammar is expected to be quite accurate. Your child should know relative pronouns (e.g. who, whose, whom, which, that ), relative adverbs (e.g. where, when, why ), adjective ordering (e.g. short dark hair and small red bag ), descriptive prepositional phrases (e.g. in the air, down the block, on the grass ), progressive past, present, and future verbs (e.g. I was walking, I am walking, I will be walking ), and verbs used with other verbs to express mood or tense (aka modal auxiliaries, e.g. can, may, must, should, would ). Also, your child needs to master the distinctions between frequently confused words like to , too , and two and there , their , and they’re . Finally, your child should be able to recognize and correct run-on sentences.

Check out these related worksheets: •  Prepositions •  Compound sentences •  Punctuating a paragraph •  Its or it’s?

Learning to use language precisely

This means:

  • Recognizing and explaining common idioms (e.g. bending over backwards )
  • Distinguishing between similes and metaphors (e.g. quiet as a mouse and the sun is a yellow beach ball ).
  • Identifying and using synonyms and antonyms
  • Using increasingly specific words in writing (e.g. glamorous instead of pretty, pre-dawn instead of morning, quizzed instead of asked )

Your fourth grader should now be using relevant academic words in informational writing and research reports. Although accurate spelling should be the norm in fourth grade, when faced with spelling more academic words, your child should use a dictionary and thesaurus (print and digital versions).

Check out these related worksheets: • 4th grade weekly spelling lists • Making metaphors • Simile or cliché?

Sharing their work

Most classrooms will encourage (if not require) kids to use technology to produce and publish their writing. Your fourth grader should be able to type up to a full page in one sitting. While teachers should be there to help, your child should be doing the work. Students will also be expected to interact with peers about each other’s work. What might that look like? Your child might read a classmates’ published work online and comment on it, or cite a peer’s work when answering a question in class.

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GRADES 2-3: The eWriting for Kids! program will also include Grades 2-3 lesson-units in each genre.  (Common Core genre standards begin in Grade 2.)  Lessons may address basic skills such as recognizing sentences.  Providing introductory lessons will also enable Grades 4-5 teachers to scaffold and personalize instruction, matching lessons to students’ performance  grade levels.

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  • Write a persuasive letter organized with: A) Strong opening; B) Two or more reasons to support their position; C) Two or more answers to reasons against their position; D) Memorable closing; E) Appropriate tone for their audience.
  • Revise and edit their first drafts to strengthen organization, arguments and word choice, and observe conventions.

TV host Jake invites students to jump into a game-show —write the best persuasive letter .  The challenge:  applying 5 keys to persuasion, pick the best arguments to convince your parents to buy a puppy.  After organizing ideas and revising and editing a  draft, winners earn the fun of playing with a virtual puppy.

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  • Write a descriptive essay sharing a personal experience about a person , place or thing;
  • Use vivid sensory and feeling words and phrases as well as similes and metaphors;
  • Organize compositions around a main impression, with a strong opening, 3  supporting paragraphs, and a memorable conclusion;
  • Employ the five step writing process of pre-writing, first draft, revising, editing, and publishing.

Carmen, editor of the Kids2Kids  website, invites the student to build a blog post about an unforgettable day at the beach with friends.  Short first-person videos immerse students in boogie-boarding, building a sandcastle, and singing and roasting hotdogs around a campfire.

Interactively, students choose language describing the videos, sort their words into sense and feeling categories, fill cloze-style blanks in a First Draft, and revise the draft by selecting more vivid words, phrases and similes.

Lesson 3 – in development

Informative writing – just the facts.

Objectives—Students will:

  • Organize information logically, either chronologically or in order of importance.
  • Introduce their topic clearly, with a general observation.
  • Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details and quotations.
  • Employ illustrations and multimedia.
  • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Provide a concluding statement.

Students will play the role of reporters for their school website, covering kids’ efforts to help save the planet from global pollution and climate change. Students will research online and interview local scientists and activists, including doubters.

Lesson 4 – in development

Narratve writing – let’s write a story.

Objectives — Students will Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. a. Orient the reader by establishing a setting, characters, and situation; b. Introduce a change which triggers the plot; c. Develop a conflict in response to the trigger event; d. Bring the conflict to a climax; e. Provide a resolution that follows credibly from the events; f. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing; g. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events; h. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

Students see a graphic-novel cover with the title:  The Treasure in the Haunted Castle. A book editor invites the student to create a scary story in which characters dare to go in the spooky place and overcome a villain to capture the treasure.

Story-arc is modeled for students as a series of links in a chain: Set-up & Characters; Trigger; Conflict; Climax; Resolution. To build their stories, students will pick one of 3 options at the start of each link.

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Writing a column today brings me back to writing a theme paper as an assignment in my 10th-grade English class. That was 73 years ago. I’m doing the same now, only back then, I turned in the final draft to my English teacher, Mary Duck. Now, I’m going to e-mail this little vignette to my new replacement for Features Editor Burton Cole, namely, Features Editor Ashley Fox. Burton has gone off to Kentucky to serve as editor of a rural weekly newspaper there called The Outlook.

Many of the circumstances today are very similar to the way they were so many years ago. For example, I’m writing this little 600 plus or minus word column in the kitchen, it’s a Thursday night, and the television is on in the living room. Back then, I remember that the Thursday evening program was a variety show sponsored by “Packard is the One for Fifty One.” Now, I’m listening to / watching a TV special about the Titanic shipwreck and the sad loss of the Titan explorer submersible.

There’s no one in the living room now, but back then were my sister and her fiance, Wayne, watching that program that I could only hear from the kitchen.

Now I have a little under-counter TV right beside my computer and keyboard. Back then, I wrote in pencil on a lined 8.5 x 11 paper.

Wayne was pretty good in English and would make little corrections to my writing. Wayne and my sister Shirlee were married that October. I was an usher in their wedding.

It always happened on a Thursday night. Mary Duck would assign a subject for our theme earlier in the day, and all of us kids had until the following day to come up with an interesting story to turn in.

One of my favorites was about classmate Jerry Keyes.

I was to go on a trip to Florida and Cuba with four other classmates and our botany teacher. I was assigned the responsibility of finding a pocket watch with an alarm that would be needed for the trip.

My dad found one for me and I brought it to school and set it to go off during English class. I gave the watch to Jerry for safekeeping, and he willingly took it and put it into his pocket. Right in the middle of English class, it went off.

Jerry didn’t even realize that the noise was coming from his own pocket, and Mary Duck went to him and confiscated the watch. It took a lot of explaining on my part to get the watch back.

We had an annual literary group that selected especially interesting writings from the students. The name of the booklet we published was The Caldron.

Jerry wrote about his little alarming pocket watch incident and The Caldron editorial staff chose it as a featured story. Jerry wasn’t known for his literary prowess and he was so proud of the fact that his story was selected.

I was on the editorial staff of The Caldron, but I had little to do with the publication of his story. As a matter of fact, I believe the selection was made before our trip to Florida and Cuba had returned.

Mumford, of Warren, can be reached at [email protected].

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