4th Grade Jump Start - Writing: Week 2

Writing, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Week 2 - Day 1

• Answer the following in your journal: In the text, the authors describe how Standing Stone Creek is small, but important. What does Standing Stone Creek do for people and animals that live around it? What do you think happens when people don’t keep their streams and rivers clean?
• IXL – Combine sentences: subjects and predicates

Writing, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Week 2 - Day 2

• The authors discuss how they do their part to help Standing Stone Creek. Many of us live close to the beach or the wetlands. What are some things that you can do to save water and help keep harmful chemicals and objects  from getting into the water? Write down your ideas in your journal.
• Watch this video about what some other kids are doing to keep the oceans clean!
• IXL – Pronoun-verb agreement

Writing, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Week 2 - Day 3

• Watch this video on topic sentences. 
• IXL – Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs
• IXL - Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence
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Writing, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Week 2 - Day 4

• Watch this video on informational text structures. 
• IXL – Identify text structures

Writing, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Week 2 - Day 5

• Listen to this song about finding a main idea.
• Watch this video on finding the main idea. 
• IXL – Use key details to determine the main idea
• IXL – Determine the main idea of a passage