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Grade 4

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 4.C.1
  • 4.C.1.A
  • 4.C.2.A
  • 4.C.3
  • 4.C.3.A
  • 4.C.3.B

• Language Usage

  • 4.LU.1
  • 4.LU.1.A
  • 4.LU.1.B
  • 4.LU.1.C
  • 4.LU.1.D
  • 4.LU.2
  • 4.LU.2.C
  • 4.LU.2.D

• Research

  • 4.R.1
  • 4.R.1.A
  • 4.R.1.B
  • 4.R.1.C
  • 4.R.1.E
  • 4.R.1.F

• Reading Informational Text

  • 4.RI.1
  • 4.RI.1.C
  • 4.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 4.RL.1
  • 4.RL.1.A
  • 4.RL.1.C
  • 4.RL.2
  • 4.RL.2.A
  • 4.RL.2.B

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 4.RV.1
  • 4.RV.1.E
  • 4.RV.1.G
  • 4.RV.1.H

• Writing

  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.1.B
  • 4.W.1.C
  • 4.W.1.D
  • 4.W.2
  • 4.W.2.A
  • 4.W.3
  • 4.W.3.A
  • 4.W.3.B

Virginia ELA Standard: 4.RL.2

Craft and Style

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.

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.