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Lucy Calkins Writing for 4th Grade | Unit 4: The Literary Essay

Lucy Calkins Writing for 4th Grade | Unit 4: The Literary Essay preview
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Cover for fourth-grade writing Unit 4, The Literary Essay, listing 20 sessions and their lesson sections
Cover of the 20-session literary essay slide deck
Session 1 divider slide marking the start of the first lesson in the Unit 4 literary essay writing deck
Session 1 opening divider
Session 1 connection slide states that writers need to live intensely wide-awake lives and write about them
Session 1 connection: writers' lives
Session 1 connection slide introduces writing about reading and finding meaning in our lives through books
Session 1 connection: writing about reading
Session 1 connection slide asks writers to notice story details before deciding what to say about the story
Session 1 connection: noticing story details
Session 1 teaching point states that writing well about reading requires becoming wide-awake readers
Session 1 teaching point: attentive reading
Session 1 teaching point explains close reading: notice small details, then write to grow ideas about them
Session 1 teaching point: growing ideas
Session 1 teaching slide introduces rereading Fox to notice moments or details important to the whole text
Session 1 teaching: rereading Fox
Session 1 teaching slide quotes Fox as Dog carries an injured bird, then asks what ideas grow from rereading
Session 1 teaching: Fox excerpt and prompt
Session 1 teaching slide presents thought prompts, including 'in other words,' to extend close-reading ideas
Session 1 teaching: thought prompts
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Writing

Grades

Grade 4

Types

Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools

File

Microsoft PowerPoint

Editable
No
Author
Brook Creaser
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About This Product

This is Lucy Calkins Writing for 4th Grade.

This download is for Unit 4: The Literary Essay.

You will have everything you need to take students through all 20 sessions included in Unit 4.

Included for each session:

  • - Connection

  • - Teaching point

  • - Teaching

  • - Active engagement

  • - Share

  • - Mid-workshop

  • - Homework

What's Included

352-slide PowerPoint

Resource Tags

Lucy Calkins writing literary essay curriculum reading how to write an essay for 4th graders essay 4

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