Grade 4: Unit 3 Big Idea: Nature can amaze us. Lesson 11 Lesson 15 Lesson 12 Lesson 13 Lesson 14 How do animals How do details help you How can nature How do events in nature How do illustrations make influence your opinion of understand the main influence events? affect other events? a text interesting? nature? idea? Antarctic Journal: Four The Screech Owl Who Liked Main Selection & The Earth Dragon Awakes Months at the Bottom of The Life and Times of the Ant Ecology for Kids Television Historical Fiction the World Informational Text Informational Text Genre Narrative Nonfiction Narrative Nonfiction Reading Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Literature 3 and 7 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Standards Expository Nonfiction (Being a Writer) Writing Standards Writing 2: Informational/Explanatory Writing 7: Research Proper Nouns Regular Verbs (ECC) Irregular Verbs Language Possessive Nouns (*review) Participles (*building capacity) Suffixes -ful, -less, -ness, Greek and Latin Word Multiple Meaning Words and Standards Synonyms Suffixes -able, -ible -ment Parts spect, struct, tele, vis Homophones (ECC) Word Study: Compound Word Study: Words with Word Study: Words with Word Study: Changing Final y Word Study: Final Long e Foundational Words -ed or -ing -ed or -ing to i Standards Fluency: Stress Fluency: Phrasing Fluency: Rate Fluency: Phrasing Fluency: Expression Speaking & Speaking and Listening 2: Paraphrasing Listening Speaking and Listening 3: Identify reasons a speaker provides to support their argument Science Earth Materials Health Community & Environmental Health (*Skills identified as review or building capacity are not articulated in the grade level language standards. These skills should be instructed based on student need.) Reading Informational Standards
Grade 4: Unit 3 Big Idea: Nature can amaze us. Lesson 11 How do animals influence your opinion of nature? Lesson 12 How can nature influence events? Lesson 13 How do events in nature affect other events? Lesson 14 How do illustrations make a text interesting? Lesson 15 How do details help you understand the main idea? Main Selection & Genre The Screech Owl Who Liked Television Narrative Nonfiction The Earth Dragon Awakes Historical Fiction Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World Narrative Nonfiction The Life and Times of the Ant Informational Text Ecology for Kids Informational Text Reading Standards Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Literature 3 and 7 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Informational 2, 3, 5 and 6 Writing Standards Expository Nonfiction (Being a Writer) Writing 2: Informational/Explanatory Writing 7: Research Language Standards Proper Nouns Suffixes -ful, -less, -ness, -ment Possessive Nouns (*review) Synonyms Regular Verbs (ECC) Greek and Latin Word Parts spect, struct, tele, vis Participles (*building capacity) Suffixes -able, -ible Irregular Verbs Multiple Meaning Words and Homophones (ECC) Foundational Standards Word Study: Compound Words Fluency: Phrasing Word Study: Words with -ed or -ing Fluency: Rate Word Study: Words with -ed or -ing Fluency: Phrasing Word Study: Final Long e Fluency: Stress Word Study: Changing Final y to i Fluency: Expression Speaking & Listening Speaking and Listening 2: Paraphrasing Speaking and Listening 3: Identify reasons a speaker provides to support their argument Science Earth Materials Health Community & Environmental Health (*Skills identified as review or building capacity are not articulated in the grade level language standards. These skills should be instructed based on student need.) Reading Informational Standards
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