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 * Grade: 4 Unit: 2 Week: 1 Content: ELA Dates: 9/17-9/21 **


 * Theme Essential Question: ** How does the author's use of setting affect the plot of a story?


 * Essential Questions: **
 * How does referring to details and examples help me explain the meaning of the text and draw inferences?
 * How does reading grade-level text accurately and fluently provide understanding and support comprehension?
 * How can working collaboratively with diverse groups/partners help me express a clearer understanding of the text?
 * How can others’ remarks in order to gain a deeper understanding of the text?
 * How does posing and responding to specific questions about the text allow us to clarify information?
 * How does specific information in the text assist me in explaining events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text?
 * How do I build knowledge by conducting short research projects?
 * How does drawing on specific details in the text assist me in describing in depth a character, setting, or event?
 * How do sorting words into categories using figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings assist me in demonstrating understanding?


 * Standards: **
 * ** RL.4.1: ** Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
 * ** RL.4.3: ** 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).
 * ** RI.4.3: ** 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.
 * ** RF.4.4: ** Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
 * ** RF.4.4(a): ** Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
 * ** RF.4.4(b): ** Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
 * ** W.4.7: ** Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
 * ** SL.4.1: ** Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, group, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on //grade 4 topics and texts//, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
 * ** SL.4.1(c): ** Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
 * ** SL.4.1(d): ** Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
 * ** L.4.5: ** Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
 * ** L.4.5(a): ** Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.


 * Objectives: **
 * Find similarities and differences in story settings, and note how the author’s use of setting affects a story.
 * Explain how having a factual knowledge of a topic (e.g., weather) can increase your appreciation of literature about the topic.
 * Track information and take notes on a topic studied over time (e.g., weather).
 * Write a question-and-answer report that includes audio and/or visual aids to communicate research findings and different aspects of a topic (e.g., a particular weather phenomenon).
 * Identify similes and metaphors in texts read.
 * Recite poetry written in different styles about the same topic.

**Product**
 * Assessment **
 * Write a journal entry explaining similarities and differences between reading text and forecasting weather (focus on building inferencing and prediction skills).

**Key Questions** (match Standard)
 * How does referring to details and examples help me explain the meaning of the text and draw inferences?
 * How does reading grade-level text accurately and fluently provide understanding and support comprehension?

**Observable Student Behaviors** (Performance)
 * Allow students to get into pairs and discuss the similarities and differences between their journal entries.

Explicit information Inference Poetic devices: Poetic terms: Prediction Setting ||
 * Vocabulary **
 * ** ELA ** ||
 * Context
 * rhyme scheme
 * meter
 * simile
 * metaphor
 * stanza
 * line
 * verse


 * Literacy Block **
 * Familiar Reading (15 minutes)
 * Phonics/Word Study (30 minutes)
 * Read Aloud (15 minutes) __The Long Winter__ (alternate: __Strawberry Girl__)
 * Reading Workshop **
 * Book Talk/Mini Lesson (10 minutes)
 * Independent Reading – Guided Reading – Literature Study (45 minutes total)
 * Sharing/Reflection/Feedback (5 minutes)
 * Writing Workshop **
 * Writer’s talk/Mini Lesson (10 minutes)
 * Independent Writing/Guided Writing/Investigations (45 minutes total)
 * Sharing/Reflection/Feedback (5 minutes)

As a class, continue adding to the Vocabulary Word Wall bulletin board where, throughout the year, you will add and sort words as you learn them in each unit of study. (L.4.4)(HYS: CQO, RR, CL; MCO:EC, IM, IC) As an individual and as a class, keep an index card file of new words learned in this unit (i.e., //meteorology, prediction, forecast, catastrophic, catastrophe//, etc.). How does the context of the word help you understand its meaning? Keeping the words on index cards will allow you to use and sort the words by meaning and spelling features. (Note: This will be an ongoing activity all year long.) In addition, you may be asked to create an individual semantic map of related words in order to help you explore understanding of the interconnectedness of weather and story events. (L.4.4a, RI.4.6)(HYS: CQO, RR, CL; MCO: EC, IM, IC) Here is a page from //W Is for Wind// by Pat Michaels. Find the highlighted line on your page—this is your cue line. When you hear that line read by a classmate, it is your cue to read the next passage aloud. Take two minutes to practice your passage to yourself, and then we will read the text as a class and discuss the information learned from it. (RI.4.3, RI.4.9, RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) (HYS: CQO, CL, RR; MCO: EC, S, RD) // Read It Figures! Fun Figures of Speech // by Marvin Terban as a class, and talk about the sections on similes and metaphors. Then, use sticky notes to mark where you find examples of similes and metaphors about weather in poems and stories from this unit. Continue the T-chart started in Unit One (name of the technique and examples of each). (RL.4.4, RL.4.5, L.4.5a) (HYS: CQO, SD, GTH, RR; MCO: EC, S, IC) As a class, we will keep a chart (with the categories listed here) of the stories and poems we read. As the chart is filled in, we will use the information to talk about what we learned from literature. Write your own response on a sticky note, whiteboard, or in your journal and share it with a partner before each section of the class chart is filled in. (RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.5, L.4.5a)(HYS: CQO, SN, SD, CL; MCO: IM, S) As a class, continue adding to the Mechanics/Grammar bulletin board started in Unit One. Remember—once skills are taught in a mini-lesson and listed on the bulletin board, you are expected to edit your work for these elements before publication. (L.4.1, L.4.2, L.4.3) (HYS: CQO, RR, CL; MCO: EC, IM, IC) Your teacher will teach mini-lessons on the individual language standards. For example, he/she will explain modal auxiliaries to the class, and then you will practice some cloze activities as a class: (i.e., The clouds seem to be getting lighter, so I think the rain _ [can, may, must] stop soon.) Select a piece of your own writing, circle //can, may//, and //must//, and ensure the correct one was used. (L.4.1c) (HYS: CL, CQO, SD) After studying meteorology and weather (specifically clouds) in informational texts, read the poems “Clouds” by Christina Rossetti and “Fog” by Carl Sandburg. How does your understanding of cloud formation increase your appreciation for these poems (or not)? Write your own response on a sticky note, on a whiteboard, or in your journal and share it with a partner before discussing as a class. (SL.4.1, RL.4.1, RL.4.3)(HYS: SD, CQO, CL) How is reading a book similar to, and different from, predicting the weather? Write your own response on a sticky note, on a whiteboard, or in your journal and share it with a partner. Cite specific examples from the text and from the experience of reading stories. (SL.4.1, RL.4.3) (HYS: SD, CQO, CL) As a class, keep a chart of information with the categories listed below learned about seasons and weather, at home and far away. As the chart is filled in, use the information to talk about related information in nonfiction books and/or online, either explicitly read or inferred. Write your own response on a sticky note, on a whiteboard, or in your journal and share it with a partner before each section of the class chart is filled in. (RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b, RI.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.4, RI.4.9, L.4.4a) (HYS: SD, CQO, CL, RR, NL, SN; MCO: EC, IC, S)
 * Suggested Activities ** : [see Legend to highlight MCO and HYS]
 * ** Odyssey Lesson ** : Setting (Located in Assignment Archive under District)
 * ** VOCABULARY/WORD WALL **
 * ** WORD STUDY **
 * ** READING FLUENCY **
 * ** POETRY/LITERATURE RESPONSE **
 * ** LITERARY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER **
 * Title and author
 * Type of literature (story or poem)
 * Main character(s)
 * Setting (geography, season, and/or weather)
 * Summary (using the “Somebody-Wanted-But-So” strategy)
 * ** MECHANICS/GRAMMAR WALL **
 * ** GRAMMAR AND USAGE **
 * ** CLASS DISCUSSION **
 * ** CLASS DISCUSSION **
 * ** INFORMATIONAL TEXT GRAPHIC ORGANIZER **
 * Type of weather
 * How is it caused?
 * What positive effects does this weather have?
 * What negative effects can this weather have?
 * What do we need to do to prepare for this kind of weather?
 * What parts of the world experience this weather?
 * What are the weather words we should know? (e.g., meteorology, prediction, forecast, etc.)

Identify story elements (setting, plot, characters, etc.) from a student selected text.
 * Homework **


 * Terminology for Teachers **
 * Context ** -text surrounding a word or passage
 * Explicit information ** -clear and obvious
 * Inference ** -to derive a conclusion from facts and text
 * Poetic devices ** - a language feature used in a poem:
 * rhyme scheme ** -pattern of rhymes
 * meter ** -pattern in verse
 * simile ** -figurative language that draws a comparison using “like” or “as”
 * metaphor ** -figurative language that vividly compares but is not meant literally
 * Poetic terms ** -a language word or phrase used in a poem:
 * stanza ** -division of a poem
 * line ** -words that relate to a particular topic or idea that are grouped together
 * verse ** -group of lines in a poem
 * Prediction ** -statement about the future
 * Setting ** - time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs
 * Modal auxiliaries ** -form of helping verbs

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 * E ** thnicity/**C**ulture | **I**mmigration/**M**igration | **I**ntercultural **C**ompetence | **S**ocialization | **R**acism/**D**iscrimination
 * High Yield Strategies **
 * S ** imilarities/**D**ifferences | **S**ummarizing/**N**otetaking | **R**einforcing/**R**ecognition | **H**omework/**P**ractice |
 * N ** on-**L**inguistic representation | **C**ooperative **L**earning | **O**bjectives/**F**eedback |
 * G ** enerating-**T**esting **H**ypothesis | **C**ues, **Q**uestions, **O**rganizers


 * Resources **
 * Professional Texts **
 * // Bringing Words to Life // by Beck et al (9781572307537)
 * // Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 // by Fountas and Pinnell (9780325003108)
 * // Is That A Fact? Teaching Nonfiction Writing, K-3 // by Tony Stead (1571103317)
 * // Strategies That Work, 2nd edition // by Harvey and Goudvis (9781571104816)
 * // Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency; Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading, K-8 by Fountas and Pinnell (0-325-00308-4) //
 * // Teaching for Deep Comprehension // by Dorn and Soffos (9781571104038)
 * // Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 2nd Edition // by Honig, Diamond, and Gutlohn (978-1-57128-457)
 * // The Fluent Reader // by Rasinski (9780439332088)
 * // The Writing Workshop: Working Through The Hard Parts (and They’re All Hard Parts) // by Katie Wood Ray (0-8141-1317-6)
 * // Words Their Way, Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, // 4th Edition by Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, and Johnston (978-0-13-2239684)

** Literary Texts **
 * Poems **
 * “Clouds” (Christina Rossetti) (weeks 1-6)
 * "Dust of Snow" (Robert Frost) (E) (weeks 1-6)
 * "Fog" Carl Sandburg (E) (weeks 1-2)
 * // The Storm Book // (Charlotte Zolotow) (weeks 1-2)


 * Stories **
 * // A Prairie Alphabet (ABC Our Country) // (Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet) (weeks 1-2)
 * // Hurricane // (Jonathan London and Henri Sorensen) (weeks 1-2)
 * // Rainbow Crow // (Nancy Van Laan) (weeks 1-2)
 * // Strawberry Girl // (Lois Lenski) (alternate read aloud/novel study)
 * // The Long Winter (Little House) // (Laura Ingalls Wilder) (EA) (read aloud/novel study)
 * // Time of Wonder // (Robert McCloskey) (weeks 1-2)

** Informational Texts **
 * // Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? Questions and Answers About Weather // (Scholastic Question and Answer Series) (Melvin and Gilda Berger) (EA) (weeks 1-2)
 * // Cloud Dance // (Thomas Locker) (weeks 1-2)
 * // Hurricanes // (Seymour Simon) (EA) (weeks 1-2)
 * // If You're Not from the Prairie // (David Bouchard) (weeks 1-2)
 * // W Is for Wind: A Weather Alphabet // (Pat Michaels and Melanie Rose) (weeks 1-2)
 * References **
 * // National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers // (weeks 1-6)

@http://questgarden.com/56/78/6/071030062202/ This webquest will investigate different forms of precipitation and sky conditions (rain, snow, sleet, hail, clouds, and fog). @http://questgarden.com/52/97/3/070628115138/ Weather is constantly changing. The meterologists that predict the weather are often incorrect in their predictions. This lesson will help us look at weather and why it is so difficult to predict. @http://questgarden.com/41/54/2/061120060803/ This webquest describes the causes and workings of tornadoes. It discusses the environments this type of weather occurs in, including personal stories @http://questgarden.com/132/29/1/110928152130/ This WebQuest is an introduction to tornadoes, covering how they are formed and the basic characteristics of these deadly natural phenomenons. @http://questgarden.com/17/05/5/060315145549/ This is a WebQuest designed to teach 3rd grade children about tornados: how the tornado affects them and the people around them, their classification system, and why they happen @http://questgarden.com/27/76/4/060618205430/ Students will learn about Hurricanes and their physical destruction and human impact. Students will create a Hurricane story by "writing in role". For Grade 4 students
 * WebQuests **
 * ** Weather **
 * ** The Weather Around Us **
 * ** The Wonder of a Tornado **
 * ** What is in a Tornado? **
 * ** What is a TORNADO? **
 * ** The Adventures of a Hurricane and a Hurricane Survivor! **


 * Art, Music, and Media **
 * Claude Monet, //__Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies__// (1899)
 * Claude Monet, //__Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)__// (1893)
 * Édouard Manet, //__Boating__// (1874)
 * Gustave Caillebotte, //__Paris Street, Rainy Day__// (1877)
 * John Constable, //__Seascape Study with Rain Cloud__// (1827)
 * Kazimir Malevich, //__Morning in the Village after Snowstorm__// (1912)
 * Thomas Hart Benton, //__July Hay__// (1943)
 * Wassily Kandinsky, //__Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel__// (1909)


 * Manipulatives **


 * Games **

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 * Videos **
 * Why do hurricanes have names? Where do they happen? Do they really have eyes? What causes them? These are just some of the questions answered as we explore these huge storms that are born over water.
 * Awesome video footage reveals the many sizes, shapes, and colors of tornadoes, as well as the damage they can cause. Tornadoes are examined in detail, while special attention is given to safety and some dangerous myths about tornadoes.
 * Thunderstorms and lightning thrill and captivate young people as storms happen around the world. Through dynamic time-lapse videography, students learn about the process of convection and how it turns cumulus clouds into cumulonimbus clouds.
 * Students learn that the combination of air, water, and heat from the sun can generate gentle clouds, ferocious storms, beautiful sunsets, frost, dew, sweltering heat, and everything else in between.

** Sight Words ** The expectation for fourth grade is for students to learn the fifth 100 words by the end of the year.
 * **FRY LIST** @http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/Fry-1000-Instant-Words.html

Literary Elements of Fiction Students will be able to identify and to describe the key literary elements of fiction: setting, characters, plot, and resolution. Main Idea Students will use a number of strategies to help them to identify the main idea of a passage or a paragraph. Features of Non-Fiction Text Use this lesson to help students understand how nonfiction texts are organized and how to locate information quickly and efficiently. Writing an Informational Paragraph Students will understand how to construct well-written information paragraphs. Imagery Students will create imagery in poetry by using strong language that appeals to the five senses. Similes and Metaphors Students will be able to identify and distinguish between similes and metaphors. Students will also be introduced to idioms and understand them as irregular metaphors. Fifth grade lesson plan. Objective - Students will understand characters by paying attention to thoughts, emotions, actions, and words. Given a reading passage, students will be abe to identify whether a concluding statement is valid or invalid This activity draws examples from Sophie's Masterpiece (which can be found at storylineonline.net) to teach inferencing; after several practice examples, the students are asked to make inferences from a CRCT reading example. Used in speech-language therapy Use for teaching story elements within fictional writing This lesson is designed to help students distinguish between positive and negative character traits This lesson will help students understand the difference between physical and behavioral traits. Lessons and activities about figurative language fore reading and writing including metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and personification. 21st Century, Poetry and figurative language @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=be757919-ac64-41c2-b4f0-d320037a5a73 Through various activities, the student will be able to differentiate the different between a simile and a metaphor @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=0219d2c1-269d-40b8-8b33-2ebc06ca872d Use the Senteo interactive response system to pick the words that are being compared in a sentence @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=53eb870f-0d9c-41f5-a206-7875e49248c0 to understand what a simile is and become familiar with different similes @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=189a6fd8-2b8f-47a1-939e-a57dd9fb9e86 identifying types of literary language including similes, metaphors, alliteration, hyperboles and personification
 * SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-017 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-017 **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-012 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-012 **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-015 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-015 **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-024 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-024 **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-019 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-019 **
 * ** AEGOM Lesson: EG4-018 **
 * ** AEGOM Quiz: EG4-018 **
 * ** Inferences **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=b8d2685f-c1c3-4417-ba07-31dfba164edb **
 * ** Drawing Conclusions - Valid or Invalid **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=d3fb741c-1f0a-4051-8c90-0eb027501392 **
 * ** Inferencing **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=5a56784f-9ebd-4397-bc4b-dc14533ced40 **
 * ** Story Elements **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=09eafe88-e699-4615-8c2d-112f0507d68a **
 * ** Character Traits **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=f2487880-7068-483a-ab0d-45737ff8b095 **
 * ** Character Traits **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=212409b9-c2a7-4ffa-8705-eea8e255abf2 **
 * ** Figurative Language **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=c63d0858-6987-4025-90df-b84b4eef1cd0 **
 * ** Poetry **
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=a37432e3-72ae-46af-8cd7-4999eab4e752 **
 * ** Simile or Metaphor **
 * ** Similes (Question set) **
 * ** Similes **
 * ** figurative language **


 * Other Activities, etc. **
 * “Somebody-Wanted-But-So” (West Virgina Department of Education)
 * Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing (ReadWriteThink) (RI.4.9)
 * Photographs of Storms
 * Music Meteorology (Weather Dude)
 * Idioms Category: Weather (UsingEnglish.com)
 * Weather Metaphors (Knowgramming.com)
 * Weather Channel for Kids
 * Strawberry Girl Lesson Plan (Lesson plan for Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski) (Scholastic)
 * How To Read Weather Maps (Discovery Channel, Discovery Education)
 * Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop (ReadWriteThink) (W4.3)
 * Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters (ReadWriteThink) (RI.4.5)
 * The Tropical Storm that Became Katrina Formed Over the Bahamas in 2005 (ReadWriteThink) (RI.4.3)
 * Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry (ReadWriteThink) (RL.4.2)
 * Weather Detectives: Questioning the Fact and Folklore of Weather Sayings (ReadWriteThink) (W.4.7)
 * Animated interpretation of Robert Frost’s "Dust of Snow”


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