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.8:

Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, academic and content-specific words within a text. (RL & RI)

• "As Classy as a Camera" (Learning about Similes with Photography)
  This is a lesson for introducing Similes with photography. Students will learn about Similes, then use photography to gain a deeper understanding and show their learning. They will take original pictures and borrow pictures from online to illustrate their chosen similes.They will be introduced to Wikimedia Commons, a great website for finding openly-licensed photographs. They will learn how to cite a borrowed photograph. They will show all of these skills by creating a web page through Adobe Express that shows their learning of Similes through 3 photographs, both originals and borrowed photographs. Thumbnail Citation: Kodak EasyShare M1603 Camera, by Greyfiveys, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
• Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
  This lesson employs direct instruction and small-group discussion to help students learn new vocabulary skills while reading Patricia Polacco's "Pink and Say".
• 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.
• 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.
• Show Not Tell: Similes
  Practice how to show, not tell, with similes in this Story Pirates video from Camp TV. Get ready to get creative and use your imagination!

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