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

This lesson is for Grades 4 - 5 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Students will learn the characteristics of tall tales, reflect on a historical moment, and discover why David Crockett and others like him became important figures in American frontier history.

As a way to support teachers with English Language Arts (ELA) instruction during the pandemic, the NCDPI ELA team created choice boards featuring standards-aligned ELA activities.The intended purpose of these choice boards is to provide a way for students to continue standards-based learning while schools are closed. Each activity can be adapted and modified to be completed with or without the use of digital tools. Many activities can also be repeated with different texts. These standards-based activities are meant to be a low-stress approach to reinforcing and enriching the skills learned during the 2019-2020 school year. The choice boards are to be used flexibly by teachers, parents, and students in order to meet the unique needs of each learner.Exploration activities are provided for a more self-directed or guided approach to independent learning for students. These activities and sites should be used as a way to explore concepts, topics, skills, and social and emotional competencies that interest the learner. 

This lesson will continue to support students' investigation of the world by identifying word connections from the unit's vocabulary in their graphic organizer (lesson 1). They will work collaboratively in teams to classify the words by the subtopics: cause, effect, challenges, emotions and hopes. This is a 1 hour per day/2 day lesson. This lesson was developed by Tsianina Tovar as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson introduces Fluency Folders which are used as a daily beginning activity. They include the unit's vocabulary (taken from Lesson 1 activity) categorized by parts of speech and writing log. This establishes a daily routine in order for students to build their self-efficacy by practicing and tracking their time to read the vocabulary fluency list and using the vocabulary to write sentences. This routine also allows for grammar mini-lessons with word work when needed. This daily activity supports language development with classroom anchor charts that identify and define needed unit vocabulary, cognates and sentence types with samples. This unit is a foundational piece intended to be used as a beginning activity for most of the lessons in this unit. This is a 1 hour lesson. This lesson was developed by Tsianina Tovar as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this 2 week module, students will focus on characters within a story, figurative language and word relationships, and writing an informative essay. They will learn how authors can use different types of language to give the reader a better understanding of that character's traits. Before beginning this module, students should have a basic understanding of character traits and the different types of language authors can use. Prior to beginning the module, students should have read Phineas L. McGuire Gets Slimed by Frances O'Roark Dowell.

A template for students to write "I Am" poems in english and/or Spanish.This can be used to tell people about themselves as well as diving into characters or people we we read about. This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

In this engaging interactive, students unscramble a list of words and then use the circled letters to unscramble the bonus solution.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students about the language and vocabulary associated with colors. This language includes figurative language and idioms associated with colors. Students complete matching, fill in the gap, and question with partners. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/worksheets-topic/Colour_TN.pdf .

Students will read a definition of hyperbole, read a paragraph, and rewrite the paragraph to include hyperbole. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read proverbs and write to explain their inferred meanings. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and use context clues to figure out the meaning of antonyms. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

I bribed my family with brownies to participate in an educational game night! In this video, we play a farm-themed word association game called Expression Connections taken from the Food, Land, and People curriculum. Try it out with your own family or classroom, and discover how many connections exist between you and the food that you eat!

Correlations to NC Essential Standards: Depends on how the lesson is adapted, but there is a lot of flexibility in this activity to be adapted to many standards in Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies.

Using 3 different short poems, this graphic organizer provides opportunities for teacher model and student practice on part of the RL 4.5 standard and L.4.5 standard.

Students will be able to review literary sound devices in poetry i.e. alliteration, euphony, cacophony, enjambment, onomatopoeia, and repetition.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade English Language Arts.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade English Language Arts. 

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students the language and vocabulary necessary for discussing various means of transportation. Students complete brainstorming, fill in the gap, puzzle, and question activities. Students engage in conservations and create questions. Students listen, speak, read, and write. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Transport_General_TS.pdf .