Persuasive Text Prompts
4th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
4.19*
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Students write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. Students are expected to write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position and use supporting details. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
32
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Respond in writing to literature and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts, both independently and with support, demonstrating grade-level proficiency. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.1.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.1a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W1a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.1.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.1a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.1.b
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Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W1a
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Introduce a precise claim, supported by well-organized facts and details, and organize
the reasons and evidence logically. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.1.a
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Introduce a topic or text. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.1.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.1b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W1b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.1.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.1b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.1.c
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Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details. |
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
W.4.1.B
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Provide reasons that are supported by facts from texts and/or other sources. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W1b
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Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.1.b
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Develop an opinion with reasons that are supported by facts and details. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.4.2.a
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Opinion pieces in which the student introduces the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer's purpose. List reasons that support the opinion. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
35
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Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.1.c
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Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition). |
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.1c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W1c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.1.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.1c
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Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition). |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.1.d
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.1.e
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Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W1c
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Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.4.1.c
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Link opinion and reasons using words and
phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in
addition). |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
4.1.E
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.W.1.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.4.1d
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4W1d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.4.1.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.4.1d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.4.1.e
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
4W1d
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.W.TTP.1.d
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Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented. |
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
W.4.1.D
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Provide a conclusion related to the opinion presented. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.G
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Write opinion pieces on topics or texts |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.H
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Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.
- E04.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.I
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Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.
- E04.E.1.1.2 - Develop the analysis using a variety of evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.J
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Create an organizational structure that includes related ideas grouped to support the writer’s purpose and linked in a logical order with a concluding statement or section related to the opinion.
- E04.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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E04.E.1.1.3 - Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because)
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E04.E.1.1.5 - Provide a concluding statement or section related to the analysis presented
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.4.K
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Choose words and phrases to convey ideas 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.L
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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.1.3
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Write to make a claim supporting a perspective with logical reasons, using evidence from multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions. |
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.1.S
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Write an opinion (argument) to convince the reader to take action or adopt a position, including logical reasons supported by evidence from relevant sources. |
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