Standard #: ELA.4.C.1.4


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Write expository texts about a topic, using multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.


Clarifications


Clarification 1: See Writing Types and Elaborative Techniques.

General Information

Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 4
Strand: Communication
Standard: Communicating Through Writing
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

Course Number1111 Course Title222
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010045: Language Arts - Grade Four (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710015: Access Language Arts - Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5011040: Library Skills/Information Literacy 4 (Specifically in versions: 2016 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010104: Introduction to Debate Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010015: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2022 and beyond (current))


Related Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
ELA.4.C.1.AP.4 Write an expository text about a topic, using a source, providing an introduction, facts and a conclusion with transitions.


Related Resources

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Disaster Response Drone Missions

Students will use multiplication and division of whole numbers to develop a plan to resupply a remote village with clean water after an earthquake. This is an open-ended engineering design lesson where students will develop a model to help them solve a problem. There are no “right” answers as the lesson is focused on the process of developing a solution and the skills and reasoning behind the process. Students should be given the freedom to interpret the problem and parameters in unique ways to pursue their own lines of thinking in producing a solution.

Everglades Adventure

Students will take notes about the Everglades using a variety of resources. Students will identify appropriate text features that can be used to convey information. As a final product, students will practice their expository writing by creating an informational brochure about the Everglades that uses the description text structure and multiple text features.

Illuminating Expository Research and Writing

In this lesson, students will use resources from the classroom and the school media center to conduct research on a topic of their choosing. Students will then plan and draft an expository essay using their research as their sources. Their research will become the evidence that is cited in their text and what they use to inform their readers on their topic. Students will confer with classmates on expository planning and construction, and will give, as well as receive, critical feedback to other students to help them make their writing better.

Project

Name Description
Energy Flow of a Mountain Ecosystem

In this project students will research a mountain ecosystem. They will create a presentation of their ecosystem that includes information on animals and vegetation, which will also demonstrate the flow of energy through the ecosystem. Students will interpret and analyze the data to hypothesize what would happen if a species was removed or added to the flow of energy. To finalize, students will write an explanatory piece that describes the possible changes that would take place if an animal was removed from an ecosystem and how that would affect the food chain.

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