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 - 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
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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 - 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
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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. |
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 - K-12 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 - 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
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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 |
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