Grade 4
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 4.RL.1
Key Ideas and Plot Details
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.
Writing Summaries in Haiku
Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.