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Grade 4

• Language

  • 4.L.1
  • 4.L.1.b
  • 4.L.1.c
  • 4.L.1.d
  • 4.L.1.e
  • 4.L.1.f
  • 4.L.1.g
  • 4.L.1.h
  • 4.L.2
  • 4.L.2.c
  • 4.L.2.d
  • 4.L.3
  • 4.L.3.a
  • 4.L.3.b
  • 4.L.3.c
  • 4.L.4
  • 4.L.4.a
  • 4.L.4.b
  • 4.L.5
  • 4.L.5.a
  • 4.L.5.b
  • 4.L.5.c
  • 4.L.6

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • 4.RF.3
  • 4.RF.3.b
  • 4.RF.3.c
  • 4.RF.4.a
  • 4.RF.4.b
  • 4.RF.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • 4.RI.1
  • 4.RI.2
  • 4.RI.3
  • 4.RI.4
  • 4.RI.5
  • 4.RI.6
  • 4.RI.7
  • 4.RI.8
  • 4.RI.9
  • 4.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 4.RL.1
  • 4.RL.2
  • 4.RL.3
  • 4.RL.4
  • 4.RL.5
  • 4.RL.6
  • 4.RL.7
  • 4.RL.9
  • 4.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 4.SL.1
  • 4.SL.1.a
  • 4.SL.1.b
  • 4.SL.1.c
  • 4.SL.1.d
  • 4.SL.2
  • 4.SL.3
  • 4.SL.4
  • 4.SL.5
  • 4.SL.6

• Writing

  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.1.a
  • 4.W.1.b
  • 4.W.1.c
  • 4.W.1.d
  • 4.W.2
  • 4.W.2.a
  • 4.W.2.b
  • 4.W.2.c
  • 4.W.2.d
  • 4.W.3
  • 4.W.3.a
  • 4.W.3.b
  • 4.W.3.c
  • 4.W.3.d
  • 4.W.3.e
  • 4.W.4
  • 4.W.5
  • 4.W.6
  • 4.W.7
  • 4.W.8
  • 4.W.9
  • 4.W.9.a
  • 4.W.9.b
  • 4.W.10

• Writing Foundational Skills

  • 4.WF.1
  • 4.WF.1.a
  • 4.WF.1.b

Arizona ELA Standard: 4.W.3.b

Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Gr 1-8

Halloween Problems and Solutions

When we try to solve a problem, sometimes we end up creating new problems. Which lead to new solutions. Which lead to new problems.

Gr 1-8

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Gr 2-8

Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🦁

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🐌

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🚚

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🏟️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🕰️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 👁️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🚗

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🤖

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🐻

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🏰

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🛥️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Gr 1-8

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: A Christmas Carol (Cold)

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Story Starter: A Day At School

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at school.

Gr 1-8

Story Starter: Amusement Park

Students use 12 random phrases to write a story that takes place in at an amusement park.

Gr 2-8

Story Starter: A Magical School

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in at a magical school.

Gr 1-8

Story Starter: Somewhere In Space

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

Gr 3-8

Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Falling)

A passage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

A passage from The Velveteen Rabbit to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)

A passage from The Jungle Book to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Characters Dressed as Other Characters for Halloween

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

Gr 1-8

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Gr 1-6

Writing Sample: Peter Pan

A passage from “Peter Pan” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

The Personalities of Rocks

What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?

Gr 2-8

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Gr 1-8

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Gr 2-8

Historic Social Media

How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict

If your students’ stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it’s time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.

Gr 1-8