4th Grade Sunshine State Writing Standards

1. uses a variety of strategies to prepare for writing (for example, brainstorming, making lists, mapping ideas, grouping related ideas, keeping a notebook of ideas, observing surroundings, answering questions posed by others).
2.  establishes a purpose for writing (including but not limited to explaining, informing, telling a story, making a request).
3. focuses on a central idea or topic (for example, excluding loosely related, extraneous, or repetitious information).
4. uses an organizational pattern appropriate to purpose and audience.
5.  uses devices to develop relationships among ideas (for example, transitional devices; paragraphs that show a change in time, idea, or place; cause-and-effect relationships).
6.  uses supporting ideas, details, and facts from a variety of sources to develop and elaborate the topic.
7. uses an effective organizational pattern and substantial support to achieve a sense of completeness or wholeness (for example, considering audience, choosing effective words, sequencing events; using specific details to clarify meaning).
8.  uses varied sentence structures.
9. generally follows the conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate at fourth-grade or higher level.
10. revises draft to further develop a piece of writing by adding, deleting, and rearranging ideas and details.
11. uses a variety of strategies (for example, base words and common spelling patterns) and resources (such as dictionaries and thesauruses) to spell words.

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