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English Language Arts — Grade 4
Goal 5, Objective 5.04
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Action Chains
- Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Adding Emotions to Your Story
- One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Animal report
- After studying the various animal groups, students write a report about an animal of their choosing using well-formed paragraphs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Kay Sims.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 Healthful Living Education, English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
- By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Jeanne Munoz.
- Description as Mind Control: Using Details to Help Readers Visualize Your Story
- Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- First Draft/Final Draft
- Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Getting Paragraphing Down P.A.T.
- One way to remember when to indent and begin a new paragraph is when (P) the place changes, (A) the action changes, and (T) the time changes (P-A-T). In this lesson, students will learn how to identify appropriate places to indent new paragraphs in their writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Sue Hunnicutt.
- Meanwhile - Transition Words that Connect Ideas
- Students will identify transition words in picturebooks that they can use in their own writing. Transition words are the glue that holds sentences and paragraphs together. They signal that this is a new part of the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Plain Polly: Adding relevant details
- This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Show, Don't Tell: Using Action Words
- To strengthen their writing and make it livelier, students will learn to use action words to show how their characters feel.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Slow Motion Replay
- Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- "So What?" Details
- Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Spider Legs
- This strategy for peer conferencing helps students learn to use "Spider Legs" to answer revision questions, and then insert the revised information into their drafts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Stretch It Out
- Good writers stretch out the important scenes in a story to make them more interesting to their readers. In this lesson, students will learn to stretch out a scene by adding things that they see, hear, think, and say to others.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Amy Luna and Kathy Beck.
- The Taste of Relevance
- Students will learn the importance of selecting relevant details by picking the right toppings for an ice cream sundae. This activity gives the students a concrete visual memory of what good details are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Transition Words and Phrases
- Students will learn to combine sentences using two kinds of transition words: time transitions and thought (logical) transitions. Transition words link related ideas and hold them together. They can help the parts of a narrative to be coherent or work together to tell the story. Coherence means all parts of a narrative link together to move the story along. Think of transition words as the glue that holds a story together. Using transition words helps avoid the "Listing" problem in stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
