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Grade 4

• Composition

  • C.4.1
  • C.4.1.a
  • C.4.1.b
  • C.4.1.c
  • C.4.1.d
  • C.4.1.e
  • C.4.1.f
  • C.4.2
  • C.4.2.a
  • C.4.2.b
  • C.4.2.c
  • C.4.2.d
  • C.4.2.e
  • C.4.2.f
  • C.4.2.g
  • C.4.2.h
  • C.4.3
  • C.4.3.a
  • C.4.3.b
  • C.4.3.c
  • C.4.3.e
  • C.4.3.f
  • C.4.3.g
  • C.4.4
  • C.4.5
  • C.4.6
  • C.4.7

• Language

  • L.4.1
  • L.4.1.b
  • L.4.1.c
  • L.4.1.e
  • L.4.1.f
  • L.4.1.g
  • L.4.2
  • L.4.2.c
  • L.4.3
  • L.4.3.a
  • L.4.3.b
  • L.4.3.c
  • L.4.4
  • L.4.4.a
  • L.4.4.b
  • L.4.4.c
  • L.4.4.d
  • L.4.5
  • L.4.5.a
  • L.4.5.b
  • L.4.5.c

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • RF.4.3
  • RF.4.3.a
  • RF.4.4.a
  • RF.4.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.4.1
  • RI.4.2
  • RI.4.3
  • RI.4.4
  • RI.4.5
  • RI.4.6
  • RI.4.7
  • RI.4.8
  • RI.4.9
  • RI.4.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.4.1
  • RL.4.2
  • RL.4.3
  • RL.4.4
  • RL.4.5
  • RL.4.6
  • RL.4.7
  • RL.4.9
  • RL.4.10

KAS ELA Standard: RL.4.2

Analyze how the theme is reflected, and cite relevant implicit and explicit evidence from the text, including but not limited to poems, stories and dramas.

Summarize In Haiku

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

Shrinking A Summary

Can your students shrink a whole story down to one sentence? Every cut reveals what is truly essential.

Identifying A Story’s Theme

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

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.

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…