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Grade 4

• Language

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

• Reading: Informational

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

• 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.a
  • 4.SL.1
  • 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.a
  • 4.W.1.b
  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.2.a
  • 4.W.2.b
  • 4.W.2.c
  • 4.W.2.d
  • 4.W.2
  • 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.a
  • 4.W.9
  • 4.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 4.RL.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Gr 1-8

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

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

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Gr 1-8

Romeo and Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

Gr 2-8

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Gr 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

Gr 2-8

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nothing could possibly go wrong with a love potion on the loose!

Gr 2-8

Writing Summaries in Haiku

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.

Gr 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Gr 1-8