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Grade 4

• Language

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

• Reading: Fluency

  • 4.RF.3
  • 4.RF.4.b

• Reading: Informational

  • 4.RI.1
  • 4.RI.5
  • 4.RI.8

• Reading: Literature

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

• Speaking & Listening

  • 4.SL.1.c
  • 4.SL.1
  • 4.SL.4
  • 4.SL.5

• Writing

  • 4.W.1.a
  • 4.W.1.c
  • 4.W.2.a
  • 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.7
  • 4.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 4.L.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Idioms About Money

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Idioms About Fire

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Idioms about Weather

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Idioms About Red

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms

Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).

Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts

Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!

Sets of Idioms Related to Food

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition

Is your students' use of repetition limited to, "The girl was very, very, very fast."? Let's borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it's hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Sets of Idioms

An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Educational Valentines

Let's make valentines with an educational twist!