Benchmark Language Arts, Grade 4, Unit 1, Week 1, Lesson 3

1. Unit 1, Lesson 3

2. OBJECTIVE
I will be able to:
Read and analyze a single-source writing prompt,
including its purpose.
Share details and build on ideas through
collaborative conversation.
Recognize the need to gather information to respond
to the prompt.

3. You will write a narrative based on the prompt you
will find on page 11 of your Texts for Close Reading.
I will model how to read and analyze a writing
prompt to ensure you address the writing task
accurately.

4. In this lesson, I will model writing strategies using
one prompt, and during independent time, you will
apply the strategy to address a different prompt
found in you Texts for Close Reading.

5. Imagine you are a government employee who has
just taken part in a major relief effort. Write a
journal entry describing what happened and how
you helped. Use a situation mentioned in “Solving
Problems” as the basis for your narrative.

6. Analyze-the-Prompt Question
 What text type and/or genre are you
being asked to write?
 What source must you use as the
basis for your writing?
 What details or evidence from the
text will you need to look for?
 How will you use the details and
evidence?
Answer
 Text type: narrative
Genre: journal entry
 “Solving Problems”
 Situations that require relief efforts
by government workers
 I will use one of the situations
mentioned in the article as a baiss
for my character’s journal entry.

7.  What will you need to decide
before you can write?
1. Who is the character that I
am pretending to be?
2. What area of government
do I work for?
3. What was the relief effort I
helped with?
4. What did I do to help?

8. Please turn to page 11 of your Texts for Close Reading.
Let’s read the writing prompt together.
Now, let’s complete the Analyze the Prompt
Questions/Answers Chart.

9. Let’s share some of our ideas about what we
will need to decide before we write.

10. Please take this time to reread “Solving
Problems.” In our next lesson I will
model how to read the source text closely
to find text evidence.