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Persuasive Text Prompts

4th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 4.19*

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

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 - K-12 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

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

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

Introduce a topic or text.

Arizona - K-12 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

Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.

New Jersey Student Learning Standards: W.4.1.B

Provide reasons that are supported by facts from texts and/or other sources.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 4W1b

Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 4.W.TTP.1.b

Develop an opinion with reasons that are supported by facts and details.

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 35

Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure.

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 4.W.1.c

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

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

Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 4W1c

Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.4.1.c

Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition).

Arkansas Academic Standards: 4.1.E

Arizona - K-12 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

Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.

New Jersey Student Learning Standards: W.4.1.D

Provide a conclusion related to the opinion presented.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.G

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.H

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.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.I

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.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.J

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.

  • E04.E.1.1.3 - Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because)

  • E04.E.1.1.5 - Provide a concluding statement or section related to the analysis presented

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.K

Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.
  • E04.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*

  • E04.D.2.1.3 - Choose words and phrases for effect.

  • 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

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.4.L

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).

  • E04.D.1.1.3 - Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions.

  • 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).

  • E04.D.1.1.5 - Form and use prepositional phrases.

  • E04.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*

  • E04.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*

  • E04.D.1.1.8 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.* E04.D.1.2.1 - Use correct capitalization.

  • E04.D.1.2.2 - Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.

  • E04.D.1.2.3 - Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.

  • E04.D.1.2.4 - Spell grade-appropriate words correctly

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.4.C.1.3

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

Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing

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