Fit the Task and the Reader is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on shaping a piece for its purpose and audience, aligned to Common Core standard W.4.4. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 14 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 8 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 14 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Fit the Task and the Reader
W.4.4
NameDate
Write on the lines. Use the checklist.
1.Explain how a beaver dam changes a valley.
I used a heading
I explained the chain
I used precise language
I wrote a conclusion
2.Write the same event twice: once as the person who was there, once as a report.
I wrote both versions
I changed the person
I changed what was included
I gave it a resolution
LessonPrint · W.4.4 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Fit the Task and the Reader
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.The chain from dam to pond to silt to wet ground to more species.
2.Two accounts of one event differing in person, detail and focus.
More practice for W.4.4
Match how you organise a piece to its task, purpose and reader.
Teaching this next? Matching Writing to Purpose is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.