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Grade 4 Unit 1: Tales of the Heart This four-week unit invites students to explore the mixture of emotions that accompany the transition to fourth grade, as well as to learn from informational text about the body.

**Overview**

Students examine emotions, beginning with a traditional favorite, Judy Blume’s //Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing//, and continuing with Sharon Creech’s //Love That Dog,// Grace Nichols’s poem, “They Were My People,” and the traditional “Monday’s Child Is Fair of Face.” //Harriet the Spy// (Louise Fitzhugh) is the suggested read aloud for this unit because, just as Harriet writes everything down in her journal, students keep a journal of what they learn throughout the year. Nonfiction text about body systems is supplemented with nonfiction biographies of doctors. Students summarize fiction and nonfiction texts, write informative/explanatory pieces, and engage in collaborative discussions—all skills that will be used throughout the fourth-grade year. Finally, this unit ends with a class discussion and paragraph response to the essential question.

**ESSENTIAL QUESTION** How do stories reveal what we have in common?


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