Grade 4 - Writing Unit - Alberta Language ELA - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 4 - Writing Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 4 Writing unit in the Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and procedures in the 2023 Alberta Language Curriculum, within the organizing idea: Writing (ELA).

There are 331 activity sheets that are aligned to cover the learning outcome in the NEW Alberta 2023 Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the skills and procedures are taught.

This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars for students to use to formulate success criteria so they can improve their writing quality. Moreover, we’ve scaffolded the skills involved with producing quality writing to ensure all students can progress.

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Personal voice in writing
• Word choice – how word choice affects our writing voice
• Improving sentences with descriptive word choice
• What is fluent writing?
• Revision – is my writing fluent?
• Writing using different sentence lengths – simple versus compound/complex sentences
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body, conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Writing using figurative language – personification, analogy, and idiom
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in our narratives – dialogue
• Character personalities – writing dialogue that matches personality
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Understanding persuasive writing
• Activity – Being Persuasive
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Report writing – a quick guide
• Activity – Idea Factory
• Writing reports – using the facts provided to organize a report
• How to research effectively
• Questioning research process – asking questions related to topics and researching answers
• Ethical use of research – asking permission, citing, fair and accurate representation
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Report Writing – writing strong introductions and conclusions
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, rhyming poems
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Cursive writing – Limerick
• Examining bias in reviews
• Practicing summaries in book review writing
• Publishing a book review
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Biographies – cross curricular connections: Thomas Edison (lightbulb) and Thanadelthur (social studies)
• How to cite where we find research – bibliography
• Rubrics for all writing assignments
• Success criteria for all writing assignments – used for student self-assessments
• Cursive writing package – all letters (upper and lowercase)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 4 - Writing Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Writing Unit, Grade 4, New 2023 Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.