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Grade 4

• Language

  • 4.L.1.a
  • 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.d
  • 4.L.2
  • 4.L.3.a
  • 4.L.3.b
  • 4.L.3
  • 4.L.4.a
  • 4.L.4.b
  • 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.2
  • 4.RI.3
  • 4.RI.5
  • 4.RI.6
  • 4.RI.7
  • 4.RI.8
  • 4.RI.9

• Reading: Literature

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

• 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.3

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).

Too Much or Too Little of a Character Trait

The trait that makes a hero heroic is the same trait that makes a villain villainous. There’s just too much of it, or too little.

Summarize In Haiku

Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? In a haiku, every word has to fight for its spot.

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.

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?

A Character’s Playlist

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

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Think Like A Philosopher

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

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?

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.

Not Like The Others: Charlotte’s Web

Four Charlotte’s Web characters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!