Help your fourth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills
Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as fantasy, comedy, realistic fiction, and historical fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold.
Activities include:
Dictionary page to introduce content and academic vocabulary Close reading activity and close reading discussion Learn and apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and literary analysis Reading comprehension activity Literary response writing activityAdditional teacher support includes:
Correlations for every unit for easy reference Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unitThe 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:
Fairy Tale: "Gordon and the Three Zookeepers" Poetry: "My Shadow," by Robert Louis Stevenson Myth: "Why Spiders Spin Webs" Folk Tale: "Why Br'er Lizard Can't Sit" (Adapted from Why Lizards Can't Sit as retold by S. E. Schlosser) Realistic Fiction: "Expert Pet Sitters" Comedy: "Pigs Is Pigs" Fantasy: "The Whale's Throat" (Adapted from How the Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling) Thriller: "The Metamorphosis of Greg" (Adapted from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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