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English Language Arts — Grade 4
Goal 5, Objective 5.05
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Read It Backwards
- One editing technique that writers can use to help them catch their own spelling errors is "Read It Backwards." In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
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- All about our town: Using brochures to teach informational writing
- In this lesson, students create brochures that explore their towns and the landmarks, symbols, and people that make them unique places to live. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Author study: Improving reading comprehension using inference and comparison
- In this lesson, students review several texts by one illustrator/author, practice making inferences about that author, and then check their inferences against the author's online biography. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dear Librarian: Writing a persuasive letter
- Inspired by the actions in Beverly Cleary’s book Emily’s Runaway Imagination, in this lesson plan, students write to their school librarian, requesting that a specific text be added to the library collection. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Our classroom: Writing an owner's manual
- This lesson helps to establish a sense of community with students collaboratively writing an “owner’s manual” that describes expectations and guidelines for the classroom. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Sort, hunt, write: A weekly spelling program
- Students work with their spelling words in a variety of ways, using words in context, sorting them into categories, editing texts, and more. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Spelling cheerleading: Integrating movement and spelling generalizations
- This lesson uses the technique of spelling cheerleading to teach the spelling generalization for adding suffixes to words that end with the letter “y.” (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- To, too, or two: Developing an understanding of homophones
- This ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the “word demons” that can complicate spelling and vocabulary. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Who's got mail? Using literature to promote authentic letter writing
- This brief activity uses literature and shared writing to teach letter-writing format and promote authentic letter writing. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE