GRADE 4
UNIT 1: NARRATIVE WRITING Week Days 1 and 2
Days 3 and 4
Day 5
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• Mode Lesson: Plot • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 4–7 • Mentor Text: The Three Little Superpigs: Once Upon a Time • Mode Lesson: Characters • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 8–11 • Mentor Text: The Three Little Superpigs: Once Upon a Time • Mode Lesson: Setting • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 12–15 • Mentor Text: The Three Little Superpigs: Once Upon a Time • Trait Lesson: Checking Spelling (Conventions) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Seasons of the Circle
• Trait Lesson: Finding a Topic (Ideas)
Conventions: Teach a grade-level standard for conventions and have students apply it by editing a piece of their writing from this week.
• TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: If Kids Ran the World • Trait Lesson: Creating the Lead (Organization) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Who Would Win? Whale vs. Giant Squid • Trait Lesson: Establishing a Tone (Voice) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Bugs in My Hair! Invite students to choose a favorite piece of writing from the unit and share it with the class.
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SIX 4-WEEK UNITS ON NARRATIVE, INFORMATIONAL, AND OPINION WRITING
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Mentor Texts in Modes in Focus (MIF) You’ll Use
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UNIT 2: INFORMATIONAL WRITING Week Days 1 and 2
Days 3 and 4
Day 5
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• Mode Lesson: Facts and Details • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 4–7 • Mentor Text: What If You Had an Animal Tongue!?
• Trait Lesson: Applying Strong Verbs (Word Choice) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf • Trait Lesson: Crafting Well-Built Sentences (Sentence Fluency) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Steve Jobs
Conventions: Teach a grade-level standard for conventions and have students apply it by editing a piece of their writing from this week.
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• Mode Lesson: Structure and Features
• MIF Teaching Guide, pages 8–11 • Mentor Text: What If You Had an Animal Tongue!? • Mode Lesson: Clarity and Focus • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 12–15 • Mentor Text: What If You Had an Animal Tongue!?
Mentor Texts in Trait Crate Plus (TCP) You’ll Use
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• Trait Lesson: Focusing the Topic (Ideas)
• TCP Teaching Guide, pages 6–7 • Mentor Text: If Kids Ran the World Invite students to choose a favorite piece of writing from the unit and share it with the class.
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• Trait Lesson: Punctuating Effectively (Conventions)
• TCP Teaching Guide, pages 6–7 • Mentor Text: Seasons of the Circle
20 • Modes & Traits: Writing Lessons Across the Year
How to Combine Your Crates and Sequence the Lessons, Grade 4 • 21
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