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.2.B
Identify the characteristics of different genres of literary texts (e.g., drama, poems, stories) and refer to the structural elements of each.
Change A Story’s Genre
What if we rewrote a story’s climax into a totally different genre?
What Would Poetry Think About Prose?
Poetry and Prose meet at a party. What would they say to each other? How would they feel about each other’s style?
Elements of The Fantasy Genre
Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.