English Language Arts Grade 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (4.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 4.R.5:

Refer to details and evidence in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. (RL & RI)

• An Educator’s Guide to Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
  This guide to the story Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh provides educators with synopsis, reviews, and lesson activities for teaching and discussing the story in the classroom, complete with a list of related core standards.
• Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
  This lesson uses "One Green Apple" by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
• Bear and Deer Lesson Plan
  Students will use predicting, questioning, commenting, and connecting to the text as strategies while they read. They will also practice retelling the story to a partner to demonstrate comprehension. This detailed lesson plan is based on the "Bear and Deer" story booklet adapted by Merry Adams; Cultural Consultants: Genevieve Fields and Chrissandra Murphy. The Native American Indian Literacy Project was made possible by funds from the Utah State Office of Education (USOE). It is a joint effort of the USOE and San Juan School District Media Center.  Lesson Plan Author: Patricia Helquist
• Cinderella Stories From Around the World
  Several version of Cinderella are read to students as they fill out comparison charts. The fairy tale genre is introduced.
• Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
  Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
• Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
  Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
• Deforestation: Paragraph Writing
  In this lesson, students will learn about the effects of deforestation and why people cut down trees. The will transfer the learned knowlede into a paragraph that includes a topic sentence, facts and details from the resources, and a concluding sentence. 
• Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
  Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
  Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then you and they can be confident that they understand it.

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