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Homes Around the World: Revising with Linking Words

Grade 4 writing practice: revise a choppy draft about homes around the world by adding linking words such as for example, another, also and because.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students revise short, choppy sentences by adding linking words.
Students choose for example, another, also or because to fit the meaning of related ideas.
Students use because to link a result with its reason.

How to use

Read Dara's draft together and talk about why it sounds choppy. Students then answer the questions and write their own linked paragraph.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.4.2.c

Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases such as another, for example, also, and because.

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Homes Around the World: Revising with Linking Words

Help a student connect the ideas in her report.

Read Dara's draft

Dara wrote a report about homes around the world. She put one category of facts in each body paragraph. Her facts are good, but her sentences are short and do not link to each other.

Homes That Fit the Place (First Draft)

1People all over the world build homes that fit the place where they live. Builders often use materials they can find nearby. Many homes are shaped by the weather. Others are shaped by water or by the way people travel.

2Some homes are built for hard weather. Inuit hunters in the Arctic have built igloos for winter hunting trips. An igloo is a dome made of blocks of packed snow. An igloo stays warm inside. Snow traps tiny pockets of air. Adobe homes are built for hot, dry places. Adobe bricks are made of mud and straw that dry hard in the sun. Thick adobe walls keep rooms cool on hot afternoons. They give off stored warmth during chilly desert nights.

3Other homes are built for places near water. Some families live beside rivers, lakes, or the sea. Their homes stand on tall wooden posts called stilts. The home stays dry when floods come. The stilts lift the floor above the water. Some stilt homes are built right over a river or lake. In some villages, people travel from house to house by boat.

4Some homes are made to move. Many herders in Mongolia live in round tents called gers. These herders move their homes several times a year. Their animals need fresh grass. A ger has a wooden frame covered with thick felt made from sheep's wool. A family can take it apart and pack it up in a few hours. The tipi is a home that can move. Long ago, many Plains peoples lived in tipis made of long wooden poles and buffalo hides.

5Each of these homes is a smart answer to the place around it. Builders used what they had to stay warm, cool, dry, or ready to move.

Choose the right link

Help Dara decide where linking words belong.

Paragraph 2 begins, "Some homes are built for hard weather." Dara wants her next sentence to give an example of this idea. Which revision is best?

A. Another, Inuit hunters in the Arctic have built igloos for winter hunting trips.
B. Because Inuit hunters in the Arctic have built igloos for winter hunting trips.
C. For example, Inuit hunters in the Arctic have built igloos for winter hunting trips.
D. Also, Inuit hunters in the Arctic have built igloos for winter hunting trips.

Read paragraph 4 again. Dara wants to use the word another to tell the reader that a second kind of moving home is coming. Underline the sentence she should revise.

Some homes are made to move.Many herders in Mongolia live in round tents called gers.These herders move their homes several times a year.Their animals need fresh grass.A ger has a wooden frame covered with thick felt made from sheep's wool.A family can take it apart and pack it up in a few hours.The tipi is a home that can move.Long ago, many Plains peoples lived in tipis made of long wooden poles and buffalo hides.

Dara wants to join two sentences from paragraph 3 with the word because. Which sentence links the result and its reason correctly?

A. The home stays dry when floods come because the stilts lift the floor.
B. The stilts lift the floor above the water because the home stays dry.
C. The water rises in a flood because the home stands on tall stilts.
D. People travel by boat because the stilts lift the floor above the water.

Dara joined some sentences in paragraph 2. Write the linking word from the word bank that fits each blank.

Word bank: another · also · for example · because

An igloo stays warm inside snow traps tiny pockets of air. Thick adobe walls keep rooms cool on hot afternoons. They give off stored warmth during chilly desert nights.

Link more ideas

Use linking words to connect more of Dara's ideas, then write your own.

Dara wrote more sentences for her report. Sort each sentence by the linking word that fits its blank.

One job of a home is to keep out rain. ____ job is to keep out the cold.A tipi could be taken down quickly ____ families often followed the buffalo herds.Some homes are built for very cold places. ____, igloos were built in the snowy Arctic.Homes near rivers are often built on stilts ____ rivers can flood after heavy rains.Felt is one material that covers a ger. ____ material is canvas, which helps keep out rain.Builders often use materials found nearby. ____, adobe bricks are made from mud dug close by.

because	for example	another

Choose the two sentences that use a linking word correctly.

A. Herders move often for example their animals need fresh grass.
B. Adobe homes stay cool because their walls are very thick.
C. Stilt homes stay dry also floods come to the village.
D. Another kind of home that can move is the tipi.

Revise these two sentences from paragraph 4 into one sentence. Use the linking word because.
"These herders move their homes several times a year. Their animals need fresh grass."

Write a short paragraph about one kind of home you know, such as an apartment, a farmhouse, or your own home. Write at least three sentences, and use at least two of these linking words: another, for example, also, because.