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.7:

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. (RL) Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. (RI)

• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
  This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
  This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
• 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.
• Character Mapping
  Using popular trade books students will create a character map by first working on their own, and then in small groups. Students will share their work with the whole class.
• Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
  Character Perspective Charting allows students to compare multiple characters and their points of view to better understand a story.
• 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.
• Coyote and Frog Race Lesson Plan
  This is the detailed lesson plan to create a story map based on the "Coyote and Frog Race" Goshute story booklet adapted by LeeAnn Parker and Cultural Consultants Genevieve Fields and Chrissandra Murphy. This story should only read told or read during the winter months. 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
• Coyote and Mouse Make Snow Lesson Plan
  The students will write a story to activate their prior knowledge. They will then read a story and identify the characters, problems, and solutions within that story. After reading the story, the students will retell it in comic strip form. Possible extensions tie in with the Science Core. This concept map is based on the "Coyote and Mouse Make Snow" story booklet. According to Goshute tradition, Coyote tales should only be told during the wintertime. 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
• 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.
• Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms
  Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.

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