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Grade 4

Virginia ELA Standard: 4.RL.2.A

Determine how an author uses language (dialogue, sensory language, and dialect), characters, and settings to advance the plot.

Author’s Voice: Jack London

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.