Story Prompts
4th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
4.16.A*
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write imaginative stories that build the plot to a climax and contain details about the characters and setting |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
4.18.C
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write responses to literary or expository texts and provide evidence from the text to demonstrate understanding |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.3.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.3a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W3a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.3.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.3a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.3.b
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Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W3a
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Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.3.a
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Orient the reader by establishing a situation, using a narrator, and/or introducing characters.
4.W.TTP.3.b - Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
42
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Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner,
using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or
themes, and speaking clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear
pronunciation. - Articulate ideas, claims, and perspectives in a logical sequence, presenting
information, findings, and credible evidence from multiple sources and
modalities to enhance listeners’ understanding.
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Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.3.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.3b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W3b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.3.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.3b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.3.c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.3.c
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Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W3b
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Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences
and events or show the responses of characters to situations. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.4.1
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Compose reflective, formal, and creative writing, which may happen simultaneously or independently, for a variety of high-stakes and low-stakes purposes. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.3.c
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.3c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W3c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.3.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.3c
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.3.d
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.3.d
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Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W3c
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Use transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.4.3.c
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Word Choice (including domain specific): Experiment with words to provide emphasis, addition, contrast, or order to connect themes and ideas. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.3.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.3d
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W3d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.3.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.3d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.3.e
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W3d
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Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.3.f
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Use precise words and phrases and use sensory details to convey experiences and events. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.4.2.c
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Convey events, real or imagined, through narrative or short stories which orients a reader by establishing a real or imagined situation and introducing a narrator and characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
8
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Write routinely and independently in response to text. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.3.e
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.3e
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W3e
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.3.e
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.3e
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.3.f
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W3e
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.3.e
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Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.M
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Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.N
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Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.O
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Use dialogue and descriptions to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations; use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.P
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Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events; provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences and events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.Q
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Choose words and phrases to conveyideas precisely
- E04.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*
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E04.D.2.1.3 - Choose words and phrases for effect.
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E04.E.1.1.4 - Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.R
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E04.D.1.1.1 - Use relative pronouns (e.g., who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (e.g., where, when, why).
- E04.D.1.1.2 - Form and use the progressive verb tenses (e.g., I was walking, I am walking, I will be walking).
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E04.D.1.1.3 - Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions.
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E04.D.1.1.4 - Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag).
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E04.D.1.1.5 - Form and use prepositional phrases.
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E04.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E04.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E04.D.1.1.8 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E04.D.1.2.1 - Use correct capitalization.
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E04.D.1.2.2 - Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.
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E04.D.1.2.3 - Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
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E04.D.1.2.4 - Spell grade-appropriate words correctly
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Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.4.C.1.2
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Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events and demonstrating an effective use of techniques such as descriptions and transitional words and phrases. |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.4.V.1.1
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Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
4.W.3.S
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Write a narrative, using a logical plot (sequence of events, characters, and setting) and strong voice. |
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