_____4th__Grade Long Term Plan for 2015-2016 School Year
MELD Instruction
Week / MELDResources / MELD
Focus / Linguistic Features
(Phonology,
Grammar & Syntax) / Vocabulary Development / Comprehension / Writing
Genre / Authentic Literacy Experiences / Assessment
BLOCK ONE BEGINS
(45 days)
Week 1
August 17-21
18-1st day of Instruction / 4th Grade Start Smart MELD Lessons Aligned to CCSS Unit 1
Linguistic Screeners / Responsive Management
Discussion and Participation Protocols / Administer Language Screener / Personal Thesaurus
Tier 2 Vocabulary to describe personal interests
- Cooperation
- Strategies
- responsibilites
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). / Narrative / Iggy Peck Architect, Beaty / Writing a Narrative
Week 2
August 24-28 / 4th Grade Start Smart MELD Unit 1 / Writing Process
Discussion and Participation Protocols / Administer Language Screener / Personal Thesaurus
Develop Tier 2 Vocabulary to describe the happiest day in one’s life (adjectives) / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. / Narrative / Lucky Calkins Exemplar (Mentor) Text
“Notice and Note – Signposts You Might Notice” / Narrative Writing – “The Happiest Day in my Life?”
Week 3
August 31-September 4
4- Admission Day / Start Smart Constructive Conversations 4th Grade Lesson Plan
Phyllis Hunter Library & Resources
Texts: Healthy Foods from A to Z, Maze & Comet
Videos: ABC News
Advanced Graphic Organizers / Develop Constructive Conversation Skills: Create, Clarify, Fortify, and Negotiate / Constructive Conversations Skills Sentence Starters: Prompt & Response Starters / Marzano’s 6 Step Process for Vocabulary Development
Divided Circle Map / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. / Opinion / Healthy Foods from A to Z (Bilingual Text) Maze & Comet
Food Pyramid
Article: “Fast Foods VS Home-Cooked Meals” Zinczenko, Noll, & Metz / Conversation Analysis Tool (CAT) Jeff Zwiers
Advanced Graphic Organizers
Food Journal –Opinion Writing
Week 4
September 7-11
7-Labor Day
BOY Due (K-5) / Latino Heritage Art Contest Criteria / Who are famous Latin Artists? / Past Tense “ed” marker – Describing Latino artists from the PAST / Tier 2 Vocabulary in Visual Art:
- Abstract
- Collage
- Color
- Design
- Distortion
- Foreground
- Harmony
- Line
- Media
- mood
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. / Poetry –
Yo soy/I am
Biography – Famous Latin Artist
Describe art using Academic Vocabulary / Phyllis Hunter Library – Informational Texts on Famous Latinos or Online informational textabout Latino artists / Writing - “I am poem”
Visual Art – Self Portrait/Portrait of Famous/Cultural Latino
Oral Presentation/Writing to describe Visual Art portrait
Week 5
September 14-18 / 4th Grade MELD Lessons Aligned to CCSS Narrative Writing
Text: Clean your Room, Harvey Moon!Cummings / Writing Process / Sensory Details
Transition Words
Direct quotes - dialogue / Personal Thesaurus Tier 2 Vocabulary
- Narrative
- Character traits
- Narrator
- Situation
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. / Narrative / Text: Clean your Room, Harvey Moon!Cummings / Lucy Calkins Narrative Writing Checklist – 5 Paragraph Essay – Family History
Week 6
September 21-25 / 4th Grade MELD Lessons Aligned to CCSS Narrative Writing / Writing Process / Transition Words
Direct quotes - Dialogue / Academic Language Development - Personal Thesaurus
Tier 2 Vocabulary
- Conclusion
- Topic Sentence
- Importance
- Dialogue
- Sensory details
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). / Narrative / “Peer Edit with Perfection“Worksheet / Lucy Calkins Narrative Writing Checklist – 5 Paragraph Essay – Family History
Week 7
Sept 28–Oct 2 / Treasures Selection – “My Brother Martin” King Farris
LAUSD Curriculum Maps Resources for 4th Grade (LAUSD Website) / Figurative Language
Similes
Metaphors
Vocabulary strategies (context clues, word structure, apposition, cognates, etc.) / “figurative language” provide examples and non- examples. / Academic Language
Tier 2 Vocabulary
Personal Thesaurus
- Indignity
- Colored People
- Streetcar
- Ancestors
- Crouched
- Encounters
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
L.4 (Determine meaning of unknown words and phrases) / Narrative / Treasures Selection – “My Brother Martin” King Farris / Define “figurative language” provide examples and non- examples.
Students read and record text evidence that explains how the figurative language helps them understand what someone is saying.
Week 8
October 5-9 / Treasures Selection – My Brother Martin, King Farris
LAUSD Curriculum Maps Resources for 4th Grade (LAUSD Website) / Text-Dependent Questions with Evidence-Based Answers/Pg. #
“Give one, get one” Students determine a theme and share their text evidence with partners. / Syntax/Sentence Structure
Writing Evidence Based Answers and Page #;s / Academic Language
Tier 2 Vocabulary
Context Clues – Students participate in steps 4 – 6 of Marzano’s Six Step Process for Vocabulary development.
Work with a partner to find 5 or more vocabulary words in the text that meaning can be gained by context clues. Circle the vocabulary word and underline the context clues within the sentence.
Play, “Alike or different,” or the “$100,000 Pyramid” game to reinforce meaning with new vocabulary. / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. / Narrative / Treasures Selection – My Brother Martin, King Farris / Reading to determine theme(s).
Determine the theme in a selection from details in a text. Provide evidence from the text to support the selected theme.
Week 9
October 12-16 / Treasures Selection: Mighty Jackie, Moss and Payne
LAUSD Curriculum Maps Resources for 4th Grade (LAUSD Website) / Sentence Structure: Clauses
Teacher models how clauses are used in the text.
Students work with partners to create clauses that discuss the characters and events in the text.
Kagan Structure: Timed Mixed Rally Robin
-Partner groups participate in “Musical Shares” in order to take turns sharing new learning. Partners travel around the room with music in order to collaborate with
other partner groups. Groups fortify their evidence from the text to determine whether the clause is a dependent clause, independent clause or phrase. Teacher times each round of sharing (1 / Syntax/Sentence Structure / Students work in small groups (4 students) to complete a divided circle map.
Team members create dramatic scenes to describe the vocabulary. The other teams try to guess the vocabulary.
The team that guesses correctly may earn a point by providing a complete sentence using the new vocabulary and a context clue.
- sneered
- insult
- callused
- muttered
- delicate
- gaped,
- flinched
- snickering
- fluke
Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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). / Narrative / Treasures Selection: Mighty Jackie, Moss and Payne / Phrases and Clauses Game
cite.nwmissouri.edu/ic/Grammar/PhrasesandClauses.html
Narrative Writing
Lucy Calkins Narrative Writing Checklist
BLOCK TWO BEGINS (45 days)
Week 10
October 19-23 / Informative
Week 11
October 26-30
K-2 Narrative ELA Assessment / Informative
Week 12
November 2-6
3-5 Narrative ELA Assessment / Informative
Week 13
November 9-13
11-Veterns Day / Informative
Week 14
November 16-20 / Informative
Week 15
November 23-27
Thanksgiving
Week 16
November 30-December 4 / Informative
Week 17
December 7-11 / Informative
Week 18
December 14-18 / Informative
Week 19
December 21-25
Winter Recess
Week 20
December 28-Jan. 1
Winter Recess
Week 21
January 4-8
Winter Recess
Week 22
January 11-15
Second Semester Begins
Introduce AEMP Essay Contest / Informative
BLOCK THREE BEGINS (45 DAYS)
Week 23
January 18-22
18-Dr. King Holiday / Opinion
Week 24
January 25-29
MOY Due (K-5) / Opinion
Week 25
February 1-5 / Opinion
Week 26
February 8-12
K-2; 3-5
Informative ELA Assessment / Opinion
Week 27
February 15-19
15-Presidents’ Day / Opinion
Week 28
February 22-26 / Opinion
Week 29
February 29-March 4 / Opinion
Week 30
March 7-11 / Opinion
Week 31
March 14-18 / Opinion
Week 32
March 21-25
Spring Recess
BLOCK FOUR BEGINS - REVIEW
Week 33
March 28-April 1
28-Cesar Chavez
Week 34
April 4-8
Earth Day
Week 35
April 11-15
Week 36
April 18-22
Week 37
April 25-29
Week 38
May 2-6
K-2 Opinion ELA Assessment
Week 39
May 9-13
Week 40
May 16-20
Week 41
May 23-27
Week 42
May 30-Jun. 3
30 - Memorial Day
EOY (K-5)
Week 43
June 6-10
10-Last Day of Instruction
11-Pupil Free
Key:
Assessment Window for ELA Interim Assessments (K-5)
Holiday Break
45 Day Instructional Block
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