This graphic organizer can be used with any informational text to determine the author’s point of view.  Students will use this graphic organizer to determine the topic of a text, the author’s point of view of a text, provide supporting details, and state their own opinion of a text. This could be used with a tech tool where students can draw or type directly on the document (Nearpod, Peardeck, Seesaw, Etc.)This is a link to the same graphic organizer but in Google Slides. The teacher could assign it in Google Classroom for the students to respond to. Google Slides Organizer

This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck.  The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can use key details to determine the central message of a myth

This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck.  The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can determine the key details in a myth.

This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck.  The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can use key details to determine the lesson of a myth.

This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck.  The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can use recount a myth using key details and the central message. 

9 minute instructional video with examples and definitions of verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 3rd grade English Language Arts content.

Read the book Mr. Ferris and his Wheel. Make sure to draw attention to the shapes used in the creation of a ferris wheel. Students will work in small groups to design and create a free standing, spinning wheel.

In this unit, students will be introduced to poetry.  Students will learn about the different types of poetry characteristics through the use of poetry books, prezi presentations, music, and spoken word.

3 x 3 Vocabulary Challenge

Use within any subject

Need a bank of at least 10 words from a similar subject.

Students will put 9 words randomly in the 3x3 grid.

Challenge: Make a sentence using each word in row 1. Challenge students to make sentences for each row and column in the 3x3 grid.

Can be done collaboratively, or individual. Nice to mix it up!

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

This unit combines nonfiction reading, biographies, Henry Ford, and Michigan history into one unit. It covers many informational reading standards and Michigan social studies standards all together.

Students will create a diorama of a character showing heroic attributes. This can be implemented in any character study unit.

Students will be reading historical fiction book at their own level. They will read, summarize, and create three book projects that correlate with some of the 4th grade common core reading standards.

This unit engages students in a variety of different reading standards through face to face and online components. In this unit, students will practice many skills to aid them in reading and understanding nonfiction texts.

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.

This unit includes a combination of fourth grade writing and social studies standards. It focuses on research and public discourse.

Students will design and create a water filtration device with commonly found items in their house, Plastic bottles, coffee filters, scraps of cloth,, paper towels. To show the importance of clean water in an environment using the details in the literature piece The Water Princess.

In this activity, students will use 5 pictures and 15 words of their choice to respond to a prompt of the teacher's choosing.