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English Language Arts — Grade 4
Goal 5, Objective 5.03
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Stop that run-on!
- Run-on sentences inhibit understanding and weaken someone's writing. In this lesson, students will learn to identify run-on sentences and how to fix them. They will then apply those skills to their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Sentence elaboration with prepositional phrases
- This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. In this lesson, students will learn how to write more elaborated, complex sentences by adding prepositional phrases and clauses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Sentence combining
- This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. Students will learn to combine short choppy sentences that develop their ideas and involve the reader in the action of the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Grammar Scramblers, spreadsheets, and parts of speech
- Students use and create Grammar Scramblers with a spreadsheet in order to practice identifying and using parts of speech in a fun way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–9 English Language Arts)
- By Tom Munk.
- Discovering just the right word
- Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Be the sentence: An interactive language arts activity
- Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Appositive action
- Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an appositive phrase.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
Resources on the web
- Playing with prepositions through poetry
- In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students have the opportunity to play with language, particularly prepositions, through the literature of Ruth Heller. Taking those experiences as a reader, they are asked to continue to play with the language in poetry.... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Identifying and classifying verbs in context
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students identify and classify three kinds of verbs: action verbs, state-of-being or linking verbs, and helping verbs. After the skills are introduced and demonstrated, students have the opportunity to apply them in cooperative... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
