English Language Arts — Grade 4

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Animal report

After studying the various animal groups, students write a report about an animal of their choosing using well-formed paragraphs.

Author: Kay Sims

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Blackbeard: The Most Feared Pirate of the Atlantic

Students will acquire information about Blackbeard through primary resources and apply their knowledge to create a newspaper article concerning his life.

Author: Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Bubba: A Cinderella story

This lesson focuses on the whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. Students explore the story Bubba, the Cowboy Prince, through rich text and interpretations of the story.

Author: Jennifer Fessler and Karen Wright

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Cloudy with a chance of...what?

Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.

Author: BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe

Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)

Connecting Folktales and Culture in North Carolina and Beyond

Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.

Author: Jeanne Munoz

Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)

Creature creation - an elaboration writing activity

This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain

Author: Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Dear Peter Rabbit

Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.

Author: Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson and Stephanie Johnson

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Giving can be fun

The purpose of this lesson is to incorporate the use of writing in a friendly letter format to foster the spirit of giving and sharing within the classroom. Using word processing, the students will create a friendly letter that will be shared with classmates in the spirit of giving and sharing.

Author: Sue Hunnicutt

Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)

Haiku and Photography: a Natural Connection

This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.

Author: steven sather

Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)

Let's Become Chefs!

The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.

Author: Sarah Ann Parker

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings

After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.

Author: Jennifer Reid

Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)

A Million Fish....Serving up Exaggeration

Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.

Author: Jennie McGuire

Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)

Mystery- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

This is a three part lesson on mysteries using the novel Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol.

Author: Christine Weaver

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Non Halloween Activity for October 31

Students will rewrite the lyrics to a well-known song focusing on Autumn sounds, smells and sights, but without any of the usual Halloween trappings.

Author: Vince Floriani

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears

In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.

Author: Gina Golden

Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)

North Carolina Regional Travel Brochure

The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.

Author: Deborah Harrell

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Pigs and Wolf on a Map!

The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.

Author: Cherry Randall

Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)

Polar bears and their adaptations

In this introductory activity, students will be introduced to the concept of adaptation by exploring how a polar bear's body adapts to survive in the harsh environment in which it lives.

Author: Heather Spradling

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Site robbers

Students will use an interview with a Native American to write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

Sweet Potato Fun

These activities allow students to gain knowledge of the North Carolina state vegetable and have fun while doing it! Activities include describing, analyzing and comparing facts about sweet potatoes, creative writing and dramatization, taste testing and completing an online scavenger hunt.

Author: Amy Luna and Kathy Beck

Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

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