Writing+Grade+4+Quarterly+Curriculum+Map

QUARTER 1:

 * Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success Taught:**

**EL 1** Students will develop well organized details in an expository paragraph

 * 1) Logical arrangement of ideas
 * 2) Specific details related to the topic

**EL 3** Students will apply and recognize conventions in writing

 * 1) Indent paragraphs
 * 2) Accurate capitalization with proper nouns, abbreviations, and beginning of sentences
 * 3) Correct Punctuation - End of sentences
 * 4) Spell frequently used words correctly
 * 5) Use compound and complex sentences

== **EL 4** Students will produce multiple forms of poetry ==
 * 1) Demonstrate figurative language
 * 2) Create rhyming poems
 * 3) Invent poetry with a theme

Expository Common Assessment
 * Assessments Given:

Progress/Proficiency to Report:**

Couplets & Acrostic poems Descriptive & How-to paragraphs
 * Units**

QUARTER 2:

 * Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success Taught:**

**EL 1** Students will develop well organized details in an expository paragraph

 * 1) Logical arrangement of ideas
 * 2) Specific details related to the topic
 * 3) Explain ideas using descriptive language and a variety of sentence structures

**EL 2** Students will create multi-paragraph narratives with a beginning, middle, and end

 * 1) Uses prompt for planning
 * 2) recognizable beginning, middle, and end

**EL 3** Students will apply and recognize conventions in writing

 * 1) Indent paragraphs
 * 2) Use compound and complex sentences
 * 3) Accurate capitalization with proper nouns, abbreviations, and beginning of sentences
 * 4) Correct punctuation
 * 5) Application of modifiers
 * 6) Correct subject/verb agreement
 * 7) Spell frequently used words correctly

**EL 4** Students will produce multiple forms of poetry

 * 1) Demonstrate figurative language
 * 2) Create rhyming and free verse
 * 3) Invent poetry with a theme

Quatrain & Haiku Compare/Contrast paragraphs Narrative
 * Units**

QUARTER 3:

 * Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success Taught:**

January
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 * Essential Learnings**

**EL 1** Students will develop well organized details in an expository paragraph

 * 1) Logical arrangement of ideas
 * 2) Specific details related to the topic
 * 3) Explain ideas using descriptive language and a variety of sentence structures

**EL 2** Students will create multi-paragraph narratives with a beginning, middle, and end

 * 1) Uses prompt for planning
 * 2) recognizable beginning, middle, and end
 * 3) provides connections between ideas
 * 4) develops multiple paragraphs
 * 5) uses descriptive language and a variety of sentence structures

== **EL 3** Students will apply and recognize conventions in writing == == **EL 4** Students will produce multiple forms of poetry ==
 * 1) Indent paragraphs
 * 2) Use compound and complex sentences
 * 3) Accurate capitalization with proper nouns, abbreviations, and beginning of sentences
 * 4) Correct punctuation
 * 5) Application of modifiers
 * 6) Correct subject/verb agreement
 * 7) Spell frequently used words correctly
 * 1) Demonstrate figurative language
 * 2) Create rhyming and free verse
 * 3) Invent poetry with a theme

Narrative Common Assessment Conventions Common Assessment
 * Assessments Given:

Progress/Proficiency to Report:**

Units Limerick & Shape poems Narrative

QUARTER 4:

 * Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success Taught:**

**EL 1** Students will develop well organized details in an expository paragraph
== **EL 2** Students will create multi-paragraph narratives with a beginning, middle, and end ==
 * 1) Logical arrangement of ideas
 * 2) Specific details related to the topic
 * 3) Explain ideas using descriptive language and a variety of sentence structures
 * 1) Uses prompt for planning
 * 2) recognizable beginning, middle, and end
 * 3) provides connections between ideas
 * 4) develops multiple paragraphs
 * 5) uses descriptive language and a variety of sentence structures

== **EL 3** Students will apply and recognize conventions in writing == == **EL 4** Students will produce multiple forms of poetry ==
 * 1) Indent paragraphs
 * 2) Use compound and complex sentences
 * 3) Accurate capitalization with proper nouns, abbreviations, and beginning of sentences
 * 4) Correct punctuation
 * 5) Application of modifiers
 * 6) Correct subject/verb agreement
 * 7) Spell frequently used words correctly
 * 1) Demonstrate figurative language
 * 2) Create rhyming and free verse
 * 3) Invent poetry with a theme

Expository Common Assessment Conventions Common Assessment
 * Assessments Given:

Progress/Proficiency to Report:**

Units Free Verse Persuasive Review as necessary