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Grade 4

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 4.CC
  • 4.CC.1
  • 4.CC.2
  • 4.CC.3
  • 4.CC.4
  • 4.CC.5
  • 4.CC.6
  • 4.CC.7

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 4.RC
  • 4.RC.1
  • 4.RC.2
  • 4.RC.3
  • 4.RC.4
  • 4.RC.5
  • 4.RC.7
  • 4.RC.8
  • 4.RC.9
  • 4.RC.10
  • 4.RC.11
  • 4.RC.12
  • 4.RC.13

• Reading: Foundations

  • 4.RF.1
  • 4.RF.2

• Writing

  • 4.W
  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.1.a
  • 4.W.1.b
  • 4.W.1.c
  • 4.W.1.d
  • 4.W.1.e
  • 4.W.2
  • 4.W.2.a
  • 4.W.2.b
  • 4.W.2.c
  • 4.W.2.d
  • 4.W.2.e
  • 4.W.2.f
  • 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.4.a
  • 4.W.4.b
  • 4.W.5
  • 4.W.5.a
  • 4.W.5.c
  • 4.W.5.d
  • 4.W.5.e
  • 4.W.6
  • 4.W.6.b
  • 4.W.6.b.I
  • 4.W.6.b.II
  • 4.W.6.b.III
  • 4.W.6.c
  • 4.W.6.d
  • 4.W.6.e
  • 4.W.7
  • 4.W.7.b
  • 4.W.7.b.I
  • 4.W.7.b.II
  • 4.W.7.b.III
  • 4.W.7.c

Indiana ELA Standard: 4.RC.13

Determine how words and phrases provide meaning to works of literature, including figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors, or hyperbole).

Idioms About Numbers 2

Five idioms related to numbers.

Idioms About Numbers 1

Five idioms related to numbers.

Idioms About Salt

Five idioms related to salt.

Idioms About Eggs

Five idioms related to eggs.

Idioms About Dessert

Five idioms related to dessert.

Idioms About Food 2

Five idioms related to food.

Idioms About Food 1

Five idioms related to food.

Idioms About Feet

Five idioms related to feet.

Idioms About Noses

Five idioms related to noses.

Idioms About Hands and Fingers

Five idioms related to hands and fingers.

Idioms About Hands

Five idioms related to hands.

Idioms About Body Parts

Five idioms related to body parts.

Idioms About Bugs

Five idioms related to bugs.

Idioms About Birds 2

Five idioms related to birds.

Idioms About Birds 1

Five idioms related to birds.

Idioms About Ducks

Five idioms related to ducks.

Idioms About Geese

Five idioms related to geese.

Idioms About Names

Five idioms related to names.

Idioms About Bites

Five idioms related to bites.

Idioms About the Greeks and Romans

Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.

Idioms About Mouths

Five idioms related to mouths.

Idioms About Water

Five idioms related to water.

Author’s Voice: Jack London

Every great author sounds like no one else. Students learn to hear an author’s voice with Charles Dickens’s dramatic A Christmas Carol, then borrow Jack London’s rugged voice, turning a flat, boring passage into writing that sounds just like him. It is reading like a writer, and it is the kind of thinking your strongest readers are hungry for.

Power and Symbols

A skull and crossbones says “danger” faster than any sentence can. So why can’t a symbol say “I forgive you, but I’m still upset”?

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

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.

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

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!

What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Jabberwocky and Context Clues

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

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