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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.a
  • 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!

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

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

Gr 2-8

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.

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby

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

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

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

Gr 1-8

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.

Gr 1-8

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

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

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

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

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Gr 3-8

Writing About Art: The Scream

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

Gr 1-8

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.)

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

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

Gr 1-8