Grade 4 Fall — Persuasive/Argument Writing, Compound-Complex Sentences, Relative Clauses, and Modal Auxiliaries
English · WR
G4
eng.g4.f.wr.territory_inventory
Generate and maintain a personal-territory inventory of topics of conviction
Build a personal-territory inventory — a 2-page spread in the writer's notebook listing 5-10 topics the child has CONVICTION about (a school rule the child would change, a community issue the child has noticed, a habit the child believes everyone should adopt, a place the child wants protected). Use the inventory as a topic bank across the term. Add to it across the year. Use it to select persuasive topics rather than starting from a blank page.
Mastery threshold
85%
Min instances
6
Typical minutes
30
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
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eng.g5.f.wr.writer_notebook_extended
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Common misconceptions
- Lists topics the child likes ('pizza is great') instead of topics with CONVICTION worth defending ('our school should serve more locally grown food in the cafeteria').
- Lists topics that have no AUDIENCE who could be persuaded — confuses opinion-share with argument-write.