4th Grade Daily Language Review for March New ELA TEKS

With the implementation of the new ELA TEKS this year, having a daily spiral review in your toolbox that reviews all the TEKS for language, spelling, and writing is a MUST!! DAILY WRITING READY© is a standards-based program that follows a research-based model of continuous, systematic instruction, building from simple to complex to help students learn and retain skills.  In this 4th grade unit for March, students practice language & writing skills in 10-15 minute daily lessons. Skills taught in this unit include:

• revising & editing drafts
• expository compositions
• central idea in a topic sentence
• supporting sentences
• concluding statements
• capitalization (proper nouns; historical events & documents; beginning of sentence)
• simple & compound sentences
• fragments, run-ons, & complete sentences
• punctuation (apostrophes, commas, ending punctuation, quotation marks)
• time-order transition words
• introductory elements, names, & phrases
• contractions
• plural & possessive nouns
• using I and me
• homophones
• parts of speech (irregular verbs, proper nouns, correlative conjunctions, comparative & superlative adjectives, prepositions)
• spelling (double consonants, plural rules, root words & affixes)

How it Works:

• In the March-May/June sets, on Monday – Thursday, students will read a short STAAR-formatted passage with 2 revising & editing multiple-choice questions & complete 1 exit ticket (a short formative assessment or quick write linked to the objective of that day’s lessons).

• On Friday, students will read a slightly longer STAAR-formatted passage with 10 revising & editing multiple-choice questions and complete an optional writing prompt. A 26-lined written composition paper is included, as well as a rubric for scoring the essay.

*This unit is part of our full-year 4th Grade DAILY WRITING READY© Bundle (34 weeks of daily lessons & weekly assessments). All assessed TEKS will be covered during the first 20 weeks of the program (August – February week 2). In week 21 (February week 3), the daily lessons will evolve into short STAAR-formatted passages with 2 revising & editing multiple-choice questions each day on Monday-Thursday. The Friday assessments for weeks 21-34 will include a slightly longer STAAR-formatted passage with 10 revising & editing multiple-choice questions and an optional expository writing prompt. The program is designed so that all assessed 4th grade ELA TEKS are covered and reviewed before the STAAR Writing Test; the daily lessons & assessments after the STAAR test will continue to review the 4th grade ELA skills until the end of the school year.

**Though this DAILY WRITING READY© unit was made with our Texas teacher friends in mind, it is also aligned with 4th grade CCSS, making it easily usable by any 4th grade teacher teaching English/Language Arts/Writing all over the U.S.**

***Suggested use with our 4th Grade WRITING READY Task Cards©.

Standards Covered:

• 2019 TEKS: 4.2Bii, 4.2Bv, 4.2Bvi, 4.11Bi, 4.11Bii, 4.11C, 4.11D, 4.11Di, 4.11Dii, 4.11Diii, 4.11Div, 4.11Dvi, 4.11Dvii, 4.11Dviii, 4.11Dix, 4.11Dx, 4.11Dxi, 4.12B
• CCSS: L.3.1.A, L.3.1.D, L.3.1.G, L.3.1.H, L.3.2.D, L.4.1, L.4.1.E, L.4.1.F, L.4.1.G, L.4.2, L.4.2.A, L.4.2.B, L.4.2.C, L.4.2.D, L.5.2.B, W.4.2, W.4.2.A, W.4.2.B, W.4.2.C, W.4.2.E, W.4.5

We hope you like this unit as much as we do, and we’d love to hear your feedback! :)

~Heather & Ashley
Watson Works, LLC

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