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4th Grade Writing Worksheets: Tornado Text-Based Writing

Updated: 26 Oct 2023

Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using 4th Grade writing worksheets and a high-interest reading passage about Tornadoes.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 4 - 5

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.10

By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.10

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and inc...
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
1. Anchor Standards
2. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

ELAR 3.7

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: (1) describe pers...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 3
ELAR 3.11(A)

Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
ELAR 3.11(B)(i)

Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and a conclusion; and
ELAR 3.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
ELAR 4.7(C)

Use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
ELAR 4.10

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. Th...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 4
ELAR 4.11

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 4
ELAR 4.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
ELAR 5.7

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: (1) describe pers...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.10(A)

Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
ELAR 5.11

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Science 5.8

Earth and space. The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among the Sun, Earth, and Moon system. The student is expected to: (1) differentiate between weather and climate; (A) explain how the Sun and the ...
1. TEKS Science
2. TEKS Science 5

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4th Grade Writing Worksheets: Tornado Text-Based Writing

Updated: 26 Oct 2023

Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using 4th Grade writing worksheets and a high-interest reading passage about Tornadoes.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 4 - 5

Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using 4th Grade writing worksheets and a high-interest reading passage about Tornadoes.

Close Reading Activities + Weather Lessons

This 4th grade writing worksheets packet focuses on severe weather, specifically the storms known as tornadoes or cyclones. It would be great as a way to wrap up your study of nonfiction texts, brainstorming, weather, and writing informational text. It could also be a fun way to introduce a weather unit.

The resource provides a nonfiction passage written to provide students with important background information on the holiday, along with providing the following activities:

Reading Comprehension Assessment
Facts and Details Sorting Activity
Informational Essay Prompt & Writing Page

An answer key is included with your download to make grading fast and easy!

Differentiate Your Fourth Grade Writing Worksheets and Activities

For struggling readers, try the following:

Provide read-aloud accommodations.
Allow students to partner read the passage and complete the comprehension check together.
Pre-teach vocabulary related to passages prior to reading.
Build background before completing by viewing videos and images or discussing prior knowledge on the topic.

For fast finishers, enhance their learning by trying the following:

Have students read additional texts or watch videos about Tornadoes.
Have students enhance their writing into a complete five-paragraph essay.
Teach your students to make a Tornado in a Jar!

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to download the PDF.

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for students to complete.

To save paper, we suggest printing the 2-page worksheets double-sided.

Additionally, project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.

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Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.10

By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.10

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and inc...
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
1. Anchor Standards
2. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

ELAR 3.7

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: (1) describe pers...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 3
ELAR 3.11(A)

Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
ELAR 3.11(B)(i)

Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and a conclusion; and
ELAR 3.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
ELAR 4.7(C)

Use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
ELAR 4.10

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. Th...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 4
ELAR 4.11

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 4
ELAR 4.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
ELAR 5.7

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: (1) describe pers...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.10(A)

Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
ELAR 5.11

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.12(B)

Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Science 5.8

Earth and space. The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among the Sun, Earth, and Moon system. The student is expected to: (1) differentiate between weather and climate; (A) explain how the Sun and the ...
1. TEKS Science
2. TEKS Science 5

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