3rd Quarter At-A-Glance – 4th Grade

Cognitive Strategies / Language/Word Study / Reader’s Workshop / Writer’s Workshop

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Read Aloud/Think Aloud

/ Vocabulary/ District Academic ELA words /

Word Study

Spelling and Word Solving Actions /

Strategic Reading

/ Guided Reading / Grammar and Conventions / Writing Mini-Lessons
Big Question: How can strategy development influence readers’ ability to understand literature?
1 / Review all Cognitive Strategies
The Horned Toad Prince from Reading Street 4.1 P. 116
and/or Trickster tale of your choice / Attribute
Bargain
Favors
Offended
Shrieked / Spelling List #16 / Interaction of Characters
Review Developing Readers p. 111 / . / Parts of Speech Review
Edititng/Revising
CCA / Expository writing
Prefixes (over, sub-)
2 / Review all Cognitive Strategies .
Smokejumpers: Life fighting fires from Reading Street 4.2
P.178 / Concentrating
Dedication
Essential
method / Spelling List #17 /

Summary of Expository Text

/ Using Apostrophes in Contractions and Possessive Nouns / Write an expository piece.
Prefixes (pro-, post-)
3 / Review all Cognitive Strategies
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path from Reading Street 4.2 P. 356 / Reservation
society
endurance
manual / Spelling List #18 / Developing Readers:
Fact and Opinion P. 167
Reading Benchmark DCA / Prepositions / Purposeful Paragraphs on Memorable Teachers
Homophones
4 / Review all Cognitive Strategies
How Night came from the Sea SE 4.1
Or My Rotten Red Headed older brother by Patricia Polacco / shimmering
brilliant
Compare/similarities
contrast/differences / Spelling List #19 / Developing Readers:
Comparing Story Variants
P. 177 / Using prepositions to elaborate written ideas / Review expository writing.
Expository Writing Benchmark
Writer’s Toolbox
Kernel Essay
Great Beginnings, Sparkling Sentences
Homophones
5 / Review all Cognitive Stategies
Lewis and Clark and Me from Reading Street 4.1 P. 52 / yearned
migrating
historical fiction / Spelling List #20 / Developing Readers:
Similarities and Difference Across Text P. 193
( between fiction works and actual events- bio) /
Subject/Verb Agreement
/ Truisms
Quicklist
Text Structure
Dialogue
Ba-Da-Bing Sentences
Changing rule
6 / Review all Cognitive Strategies
CoyoteSchool News from Reading Street 4.1 P. 202
AND
How to Start a School Newspaper 4.1 P. 224 / bawling
spurs
synthesize / Spelling List #21 / Reading Benchmark
Connect, Compare, Contrast across Text
p. 203 /

Workstations

can be introduced that support classroom instruction through student practice / Review and practice of editing, revising & grammar skills for STAAR / Kernel Essay
Flipbook
Revision Stations
Ei and ie
7 / Review all Cognitive Strategies Moonwalk from Reading Street 4.2 P. 294
And/or
Thank you, Mr. Faulker by Patricia Polacco / Taunted
trudged
review of academic vocabulary words / Spelling List #22 / Review Inferencing / Review grammar concepts that need reinforcement – determine class needs / Blending Sentence fuctions
Truisms
Common mistakes
FIT
Final Copy
-dge and -ge
8 / Review all Cognitive Strategies
A gift from the Heart from Reading Street 4.2 P.420 / Ceremonial
abundance
thesaurus / Spelling List #23 / The Genre of Test Reading / Review grammar concepts that need reinforcement – determine class needs / Review Week
Review strategies as necessary depending on the needs of the class
augh and ough
9 / Creating analogies review lesson
Use additional vocabulary activities to review. / Review list selected by the teacher / Review and revisit strategies based on student need / STAAR Writing Test