4th grade
reading literature
Standards
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Essential Questions
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CC.4.R.L.1 Key Ideas and Details: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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What evidence can you find in the informational text to support your understanding? Read closely to find answers that require an inference.
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CC.4.R.L.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
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Why is determining the theme of a story important for a reader?
How can details determine the theme? Summarize the text. |
CC.4.R.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
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How do specific details help develop a character?
How do specific details help develop a setting? |
CC.4.R.L.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
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What strategies can you use to determine the meaning of words and phrases in text?
How can background knowledge help the reader understand the language the author uses? |
CC.4.R.L.5 Craft and Structure: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, setting descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
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How are poems, dramas, and prose structured differently from one another?
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CC.4.R.L.6 Craft and Structure: Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
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Define first- and third-person points of view.
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CC.4.R.L.7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
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Make a connection between a piece of text and a drama.
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CC.4.R.L.9 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
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Compare and contrast similar topics and themes presented in ________ (stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures).
Compare and contrast similar patterns of events presented in ________ (stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures). |
CC.4.R.L.10 Range of Reading and Complexity of Text: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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Explain which portions of a text I understand and which portions I don’t.
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