Reading Literary Text, Grade 4 (Reading Literary Text: Common Core Lessons) - Softcover

Evan-Moor Corporation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629381489 ISBN 13: 9781629381480

Publisher: Evan-Moor Corp, 2015

Synopsis

Help your fourth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
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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, including:

• Dictionary page to introduce content and academic vocabularyÂ
• 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 activity

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Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations to Common Core State Standards and TEKS for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable homeâ??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 unit

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The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:
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• Fairy Tale: â??Gordon and the Three Zookeepersâ?Â
• Poetry: â??My Shadow,â? by Robert Louis Stevenson                                                 Â
• Myth: â??Why Spiders Spin Websâ?                                                                            Â
• Folk Tale: â??Why Brâ??er Lizard Canâ??t Sitâ?
  (Adapted from Why Lizards Canâ??t Sit as retold by S. E. Schlosser) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
• Realistic Fiction: â??Expert Pet Sittersâ?                                                                     Â
• Comedy: â??Pigs Is Pigsâ?                                                                                            Â
• Fantasy: â??The Whaleâ??s Throatâ?
  (Adapted from How the Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling)
• Thriller: â??The Metamorphosis of Gregâ?
  (Adapted from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

Edition details

• Publisher: Evan-Moor Corp
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629381489
• ISBN 13: 9781629381480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144