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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.W.3.d

Employ vocabulary with sufficient sensory (i.e., sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) details to give clear pictures of ideas and events.

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

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: Quick Baby

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

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.

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.