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Grade 4

• Literacy Foundations

  • 4.LF.2
  • 4.LF.3
  • 4.LF.4
  • 4.LF.5
  • 4.LF.8
  • 4.LF.9
  • 4.LF.10
  • 4.LF.10.a
  • 4.LF.10.b
  • 4.LF.10.c
  • 4.LF.13
  • 4.LF.14
  • 4.LF.15
  • 4.LF.15.a
  • 4.LF.15.b
  • 4.LF.15.c
  • 4.LF.16
  • 4.LF.16.a
  • 4.LF.16.b
  • 4.LF.16.c
  • 4.LF.17
  • 4.LF.17.a
  • 4.LF.17.b
  • 4.LF.18
  • 4.LF.18.a
  • 4.LF.18.b
  • 4.LF.19
  • 4.LF.19.a
  • 4.LF.19.b
  • 4.LF.20
  • 4.LF.20.a
  • 4.LF.20.b
  • 4.LF.20.c
  • 4.LF.20.d
  • 4.LF.21
  • 4.LF.21.a
  • 4.LF.21.c
  • 4.LF.22
  • 4.LF.22.a
  • 4.LF.23
  • 4.LF.23.a
  • 4.LF.23.b
  • 4.LF.24
  • 4.LF.24.a
  • 4.LF.25
  • 4.LF.26
  • 4.LF.27
  • 4.LF.28
  • 4.LF.30
  • 4.LF.30.a
  • 4.LF.30.b
  • 4.LF.31
  • 4.LF.32
  • 4.LF.33
  • 4.LF.33.a
  • 4.LF.33.b
  • 4.LF.33.c
  • 4.LF.35
  • 4.LF.36
  • 4.LF.37
  • 4.LF.38
  • 4.LF.38.b
  • 4.LF.38.c
  • 4.LF.38.d
  • 4.LF.38.f
  • 4.LF.39
  • 4.LF.39.a
  • 4.LF.39.b
  • 4.LF.39.c
  • 4.LF.40
  • 4.LF.41
  • 4.LF.41.a
  • 4.LF.42
  • 4.LF.42.a

• Standards

  • 4.R1
  • 4.R2
  • 4.R3
  • 4.R4
  • 4.R5
  • 4.R6

Alabama ELA Standard: 4.LF.10

Interpret words and phrases, including figurative language, as they are used in a text.

Author’s Voice: Jack London

Every great author sounds like no one else. Students learn to hear an author’s voice with Charles Dickens’s dramatic A Christmas Carol, then borrow Jack London’s rugged voice, turning a flat, boring passage into writing that sounds just like him. It is reading like a writer, and it is the kind of thinking your strongest readers are hungry for.

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Ambiguous Sentences

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

Jabberwocky and Context Clues

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.