Grade 4
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Language
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Reading: Fluency
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Reading: Informational
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Reading: Literature
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Speaking & Listening
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Writing
CCSS ELA Standard: 4.RL.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Summarize In Haiku
Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? In a haiku, every word has to fight for its spot.
Shrinking A Summary
Can your students shrink a whole story down to one sentence? Every cut reveals what is truly essential.
Writing Summaries in Haiku
Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.