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📖 4th Grade · ELAW.4.3aUnit 3: Narrative writing

Leads that hook

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🎯 Objective: Students write engaging leads.

Lesson outline

  1. Types of leads: action, dialogue, sound, question.
  2. Try three leads.
  3. Choose the best.
  4. Exit: read your lead.

Lesson 2 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.4.3a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write narratives with a situation, dialogue, description, pacing and transitions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 4th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Narrative writing”

  1. Story ideas and planning
  2. Leads that hook
  3. Dialogue and description
  4. Concrete and sensory words
  5. Transitions and conclusion
  6. Revise, edit, publish

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