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Reading and Writing with Evidence: Grade 4 ELA

Grade 4 · 332 pages · 67 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year grade 4 ELA course built on close reading of complete short texts, poems, drama, and informational passages. Students move from finding evidence to using it: to infer, to state theme, to summarize, and to compare accounts and genres. Writing runs parallel all year in three modes: opinion, informative, and narrative, with paragraphs that stay on topic. All passages are public domain or original; no anthology excerpts.

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Reading and Writing with Evidence: Grade 4 ELA

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Unit 1: Reading Between the Lines: Inference with Evidence8 lessons
  1. 1.The difference between a supported inference and an unsupported guess
  2. 2.Exact-word quoting of a supporting sentence
  3. 3.An inference generated from a single clue sentence, plus its matching evidence
  4. 4.The logical connection between a quote and the claim it supports
  5. 5.Two distinct valid inferences from one shared sentence
  6. 6.Context clues as a tool for unfamiliar-word meaning
  7. 7.The fit between a specific quote and a specific claim
  8. 8.A full claim-evidence-explanation response applied to an unfamiliar text type
Unit 2: What the Story Is Really About: Theme7 lessons
  1. 9.The distinction between topic (what a story is about) and theme (an idea about life)
  2. 10.Character choices as evidence of what a character values
  3. 11.Theme statements derived from a fable's stated moral
  4. 12.Theme statements derived from character choices without a stated moral
  5. 13.The possibility that one story supports more than one defensible theme
  6. 14.Fit between quoted textual evidence and a stated theme claim
  7. 15.A theme statement and its supporting quoted evidence for an unfamiliar short story
Unit 3: Whose Story Is It: Summarizing and Sources8 lessons
  1. 16.Main idea versus key detail in a short informational text
  2. 17.Summary as compression of main idea and key details, distinct from retell
  3. 18.The distinction between summary and retell
  4. 19.Firsthand versus secondhand accounts of the same event
  5. 20.How a source's position shapes what it can report, in a paired firsthand/secondhand text set
  6. 21.Point of view in nonfiction reporting
  7. 22.Discriminating between the summarizing skill and the sourcing skill when both are plausible responses to a new text
  8. 23.Disagreement between two true accounts of one event, explained by position and access
Unit 4: One Story, Three Shapes: Poem, Drama, Prose8 lessons
  1. 24.Stanza and line structure in a poem
  2. 25.Scene and dialogue structure in a drama script
  3. 26.The function of stage directions relative to dialogue
  4. 27.Differences in reader knowledge produced by poem versus prose structure on one shared event
  5. 28.Theme versus topic across two genres (poem and prose)
  6. 29.The causal relationship between text structure and reader knowledge, evidenced across two texts
  7. 30.The relationship between an author's structural choice and what that choice reveals or withholds, applied to a novel event
  8. 31.Structural features that distinguish poem, drama, and prose
Unit 5: Reading a Page That Isn't All Words: Visual Information9 lessons
  1. 32.The structural parts of a bar chart (title, axis, key)
  2. 33.The distinguishing visual feature of a chart versus a diagram versus a timeline
  3. 34.The relationship between a diagram's labels and a paragraph's stated facts
  4. 35.The relationship between spacing on a timeline and duration between events
  5. 36.The main pattern (most/least, increase/decrease) shown by a bar chart
  6. 37.The location of a specific fact across a paired text and visual
  7. 38.How a broken axis distorts the visual impression of a true numeric difference
  8. 39.The honesty of a chart's design relative to the true data it displays
  9. 40.Integration of a textual fact and a chart fact bearing on a single question
Unit 6: Writing to Inform and Writing to Persuade9 lessons
  1. 41.The difference between an opinion claim and a factual statement
  2. 42.The distinction between a reason supported by evidence and a reason that is only a feeling
  3. 43.An opinion paragraph structured as claim plus two evidence-backed reasons
  4. 44.Grouping related facts under a shared category before drafting informative text
  5. 45.Informative paragraph structure: intro, grouped facts, conclusion, topic maintained
  6. 46.Off-topic sentences that break paragraph unity
  7. 47.Primary versus secondhand facts as research source types
  8. 48.Run-on sentences and sentence fragments in student drafts
  9. 49.Independent transfer of paragraph structure (opinion or informative) to a new topic and source
Unit 7: Writing to Tell a Story: Narrative Craft9 lessons
  1. 50.Logical event order in a narrative
  2. 51.Mechanics of punctuating dialogue (quotation marks, comma placement, capitalization after a tag)
  3. 52.Dialogue that advances plot or reveals character motive
  4. 53.Transitional words signaling time (e.g., later, meanwhile, the next morning)
  5. 54.Sensory description that serves a scene's mood or meaning
  6. 55.The connection between a character's climax choice and an implied theme
  7. 56.An original short narrative built from the four taught craft moves
  8. 57.Implied theme in an unfamiliar narrative text
  9. 58.Revision of a draft sentence using a taught craft move
Unit 8: Putting It Together: Mixed Reading and Writing Tasks9 lessons
  1. 59.The distinguishing task-clues for inference, theme, and summary questions
  2. 60.Evidence-based inference from a new, unlabeled prose passage
  3. 61.The required feature of each writing mode as taught in Units 6 and 7
  4. 62.Theme statement supported by textual evidence in an unlabeled passage
  5. 63.Summary of a text-plus-chart pairing, integrating visual and print evidence
  6. 64.The distinguishing task-clues for opinion, informative, and narrative prompts
  7. 65.A complete short piece in the mode identified from an unlabeled prompt
  8. 66.Reliability judgment between two conflicting accounts of one event
  9. 67.The link between a prompt's wording and the strategy or mode it calls for

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