Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.A:
Students use prewriting strategies, such as semantic webs and Venn diagrams, to organize ideas and information and to plan writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.B:
Students state a main idea, theme, or opinion and provide supporting details.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.C:
Students use relevant examples, reasons, and explanations to support ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.D:
Students express opinions and make judgments that demonstrate a personal point of view.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.E:
Students use personal experiences and knowledge to analyze and evaluate new ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.F:
Students analyze and evaluate the author's use of setting, plot, character, rhyme, rhythm, and language in written and visual text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.G:
Students use effective vocabulary in persuasive and expository writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.H:
Students use details from stories or informational texts to predict, explain, or show relationships between information and events.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.I:
Students use ideas from two or more sources of information to generalize about causes, effects, or other relationships.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.W.3.J:
Students maintain a portfolio that includes written analysis and evaluation as a method of reviewing work with teachers and parents/caregivers.