This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 4th grade ELA content.

This unit is focused on figurative language, covering common core standards in language, literature for reading, and speaking and listening with the final assessment.  It is designed to be used with a workshop model, where there is some form of opening for brief instruction, partner and/or independent work time, and a closing time for sharing within each lesson.

In this activity, students read a story and answer questions about the text. The resource contains guided reading and assessment questions.

In this lesson, students overcome their fears by using a traditional poem to teach students about alliteration. After reading the book, A My Name Is... by Alice Lyne, students use a variety of print and online resources to brainstorm their own alliterative word lists. They then create a poetry link that uses the traditional poem they have read together as a framework for their own poems.

Four Questions Protocol is a good strategy for students to use when reading the material.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

To scaffold, AVID offers 2 and 3 column notes for different grades. See link at the bottom of the document.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

To scaffold, AVID offers 2 and 3 column notes for different grades. See link at the bottom of the document.

Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.

In this activity, students read a fable by Aesop who was a storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.

Novel based curriculum is an amazing tool. Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty is sure to grab the attention of the students and keep them engaged throughout. These are standard aligned comprehension questions that force the students to develop a deeper understanding of the characters and the novel.

This is a story about a potato…not any type of potato though. A potato who sits in the exact same spot on the couch every day using all of his devices (tv, phone, video games, etc). It’s a perfect life until the power goes out one day, and he has to find other things to do. He learns that he needs to have a balance between screen time and activities in the real world. Your job as an engineer is to design a gadget that will remind the potato when he needs to ditch the screens and get up and move. (You must incorporate your iPad.)

In this activity, students learn key details about Dr. King’s life and accomplishments, including his belief in equality and non-violence.

This activity tells the story of Wilma Rudolph, the fastest woman in the world.

In this activity, students read about the possible events of Betsy Ross’s creation of the first American flag from the perspective of a fellow seamstress. As studnets read, they take notes on the narrator’s perspective, and how her perspective impacts her feelings about the Revolutionary War.

In the activity, students read about a fisherman who catches a fish who grants wishes — perhaps too many.

This resource contains a vocabulary map that can be used to help students understand new vocabulary by thinking about the meaning of words in various ways.

In Unit 1, students begin to build background knowledge about the women’s suffrage movement and the role that Susan B. Anthony played in it. Students will read a variety of informational texts as well as primary source documents. In Lessons 1 and 2, students are introduced to the topic through examining a timeline on the history of voting in America and an excerpt of a speech by Susan B. Anthony. (They will revisit the speech throughout the module.) Throughout the first half of this unit, students will read and summarize several informational texts about Susan B. Anthony. Students will also learn to use glossaries, context clues, and deconstructing parts of words as strategies for understanding unfamiliar academic and domain-specific words. This is followed by a mid-unit assessment of RI.4.2 and RI.4.4. Students then continue learning about Susan B. Anthony’s role in the suffrage movement, comparing firsthand and secondhand accounts of key events in the history of voting in America. The end of unit assessment focuses on RI.4.2 and RI.4.6: Students compare firsthand and secondhand accounts of a modern-era historical event (the inauguration of Barack Obama).