Longview ISD4th Grade ELA Unit 2-1

4th Grade TEKS with Specificities
4.6Reading/Word Identification. The student uses a variety of word recognition strategies.
4.6AApply knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, language structure, and context to recognize words (4-8).
Including:
•Applies knowledge of decoding multi-syllable words—e.g., the accented syllable in a word, according to the accent mark (ta’ ble)
4.6BUse structural analysis to identify root words with prefixes, such as dis-, non-, in-; and suffixes such as -ness, -tion, -able (4-6).
4.9Reading/Vocabulary Development. The student acquires an extensive vocabulary through reading and systematic word study.
4.9DDetermine meanings of derivatives by applying knowledge of the meanings of root words, such as like, pay, or happy and affixes such as dis-, pre-, un- (4-8).
Includes:
•Identifies synonyms for words in context at the fourth grade level
•Identifies antonyms for words in context at the fourth grade level
•Chooses the appropriate meaning for a word with multiple meanings in the context of a sentence
•Completes analogies when words have the relationship of synonyms
•Completes analogies when words have the relationship of antonyms
4.10Reading/Comprehension. The student comprehends selections using a variety of strategies.
4.10LRepresent text information in different ways, such as in outline, timeline, or graphic organizer (4-8).
Including:
•Identifies similarities and differences
•Draws conclusions
•Identifies main idea
•Sequences of events
•Analyzes characters and events / And uses
•Chart—sequence of events
•Venn diagram: comparison/contrast of traits/characteristics of two characters/concepts
•Chart: characteristics of an “Activity/Event”
•Chart: characteristics/subsets
•Chart: classification of events
•Chart: chronology of events
•Chart: main idea (missing main idea or missing supporting detail)
•Chart: obtaining information
•Chart: cause/effect
•Outline: process steps/chronology (single capital letter plus numbers 1-4)
•Web: Chronology of events
•Web: Characteristics of a character/concept
•Web: causes of a character’s actions
•Map: Using a key
4.12Reading/Text Structures/Literary Concepts. The student analyzes the characteristics of various types of texts (genres)
4.12IRecognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution
(4-8).
PLOT - Recognizes Plot as the “careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect. Plot is more than simply the arrangement of happenings…. It is the result of the writer’s deliberate selection of interrelated actions… and the choice of arrangement in presenting and resolving a conflict. … Most plots involve conflict, a struggle between two opposing forces.”
Analyzes Plot Elements (when they are used and for what purpose)
•Exposition (introduction of characters, setting, background information, etc., includes narrator and point of view)
•Narrative hook (inciting incident; introduction of the conflict or the story problem)
•Rising Action (events leading up to climax) or
•Complication (building of the tension between opposing forces)
•Climax (highest point of interest or the turning point or the point at which the story problem is solved or the conflict resolved)
•Falling Action (leading down to the resolution of the story problem/line)
•Resolution/Denouement (conclusion or end) / Including analyzing text in order to determine:
•how the author builds suspense
•the story problem?
•when the story problem begins
•how the author develops (the plot) of the passage
•how the point of view influences the reader’s understanding of a character
•the cause of the conflict(s)
Setting
Setting of a Work or Portion of a Work
•Time - historical time or clock time
•Place - real or imaginary
Purpose/Significance of Setting
•to establish or develop a unique plot line
•to establish or develop unique conflicts and/or resolution of conflicts
•to establish the mood or atmosphere of a work
•to influence the reader’s perceptions/reactions of events/characters
•What is one difference between the two selections?
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8/27/2007DRAFT