Prompts from 4th grade DAY TWO pre-service (July 16th)
1. Opinion (Social Studies Ch.1 L5)
Situation: We have been studying life in California’s four different geographical regions: valley
desert, coast, mountains.
Prompt: Write a paragraph stating which region you would most like to live in. Support you choice
with reasons using evidence from the text.
When you write your paragraphs remember to:
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Introduce your topic clearly.
Create an organizational structure.
Provide reasons, supported by facts and details.
Explain how your evidence connects to your reasons.
Narrative (Science Ch. 1, pg. 33)
Suppose you are an elephant living with a herd in a world without plants. Write a series of journal
entries with a clear beginning, middle, and end of what life might be like. Remember to use examples
from the text to support details in your story. Include how you would survive over time and what you
think about your new life.
Remember to include:
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Descriptive details.
Dialogue
A clear sequence of time and events.
Informational (Science Ch.1 L1)
Situation: We’ve learned that biomass is a measure of the amount of living things in an environment.
Prompt: Using evidence from your text, write a paragraph explaining what information scientists can
learn about the health of the environment by keeping track of the biomass.
-or-: In a paragraph explain how keeping track of biomass gives scientists information about the health
of the environment. Support you ideas using information from the text book.
Remember to:
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Introduce your topic clearly
create an organizational structure
explain how your evidence from the text connects to your reasons
Informational (Social Studies Ch.1 L5)
Situation: Each California region has distinct climate, landforms and resources that affect human
activities and ways of life.
Prompt: Using evidence from Ch. 1, Lesson 5 in your Social Studies texts, create a poster that lists the
key characteristics of each of the 4 regions of California.
Remember to:
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Title each region.
Use bullets to list characteristics
Include page number where evidence was found.
Imagine yourself living on a planet without plants. Write about a typical week to a friend
about what life might be like.
Remember to include:
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dialogue
descriptive details
clear sequence of events
Prompts from 4th grade DAY TWO pre-service (July 17th)
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Informational (Science Ch. 1, pg. 32)
Prompt: How can keeping track of the biomass give scientists information about the health of the
environment? Write a paragraph describing how biomass gives scientists this information. Include
evidence from the text to support your answer.
-or-: How can keeping track of the biomass give scientists information about the health of the
environment?
Remember to:
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introduce your topic clearly
create an organizational structure
use evidence from the text to support your answer
connect your reasons to your evidence
Narrative (Science Ch. 1, pg. 33)
Prompt: Pretend you and a buddy have traveled for a day to another world. This world has no plants.
Write a series of journal entries describing your experience and explain why life might be different.
Use information from the text to support your ideas.
-or-: You and your team have landed on a planet without plant life. Using what you learned in
Chapter 1, Living Things Need Energy, write a description about what life might be like on this planet
and explain why life might be this way.
Remember to:
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use descriptive words to describe the setting
use sequence to show the beginning, middle, and end of your day
add dialogue between you and your buddy (-or- between the explorers)
include how you and your buddy (-or- team) feel about living on a world without
plants
Opinion (Social Studies Ch. 1, L2)
Prompt: After reading Chapter 1: Lesson 2, The Regions of California, choose the region you would
most like to live. Create a brochure describing the ways of life in your region and convince your
audience why they should visit. Support your choice by using evidence from Lesson 2 in you text.
-or-: Looking at California’s four natural regions (coastal, mountain, central, valley, and desert),
choose one you would most like to persuade a friend to visit. Create a one paragraph magazine article
stating the reasons your friend should visit.
Remember to:
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introduce your topic clearly
create an organizational structure
provide reasons that are supported by facts and details from your text
use evidence from text to connect your reasons
4th grade CCSS Day Two prompts. August 10th
Unit One:
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Social Studies, Chapter 1 Lesson 1:
Your cousin lives in Africa and wants to know where California is. In a paragraph, explain
California’s location using vocabulary words and places found on p. 12.
Be sure to include:
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continent
country
hemispheres
region
relative location compared to Africa
Social Studies, Chapter 1 Lesson 5:
In a paragraph, explain how the Pacific Ocean affects life in the coastal region. Be sure
to discuss both industrial and recreational benefits of living near the Pacific Ocean.
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Science, Chapter 6 Lesson 1 (pg. 287):
How do opposite and like charges interact when brought near one another and near
neutral matter? Write a paragraph that uses the text to support your answers and draw a
diagram to show a visual representation. (RIT 1)
Remember to:
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Check punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
Indent
Re-read your paragraph before turning it in
Make visual representation or diagram that also supports your answer
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Science, Chapter 6 Lesson 1:
Pretend you are on a hike in the coastal mountains near San Francisco with your buddy.
You notice dark clouds looming. Then you see the flash of lightning and hear the
thunderous band that follows. Write a description of an incident where you coach your
buddy on how to not get struck by lightning as you both venture home.
Remember to:
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Provide descriptions of you and your buddy’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Include dialogue and sensory details.
Check for capitalization, usage, punctuation, and spelling.
Utilize the scientific vocabulary (such as “conductor”) as discussed in our static
electricity lesson.