Fourth Grade Writing

About Grade 4 Writing

Grade 4 writing (4th grade, ages 9–10) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Structure and Organization (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Personal Writing (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Research Writing (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Functional Writing (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Projects and Review (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to punctuate dialogue correctly using speech marks, commas, and capital letters, identify different types of diagrams and their best use cases and identify the formatting conventions of a script or dialogue.

Start here: Lesson 1: Identify Main and Supporting Ideas is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.