ELAR 4.7
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
- (1) describe personal connections to a variety of
sources, including self-selected texts;
- (A) write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources;
- (B) use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
- (C) retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
- (D) interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
- (E) respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate; and
- (F) discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.
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How to Summarize Fiction Mini Book
Explore the important factors of summarizing a fiction text with this student mini-book.
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Summarizing Fiction Task Cards
Guide students along their summarizing journey with this set of Fiction texts on task cards for students to summarize.
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Summarizing Fiction Poster Set
Help students remember what to include in a summary of a fiction text with this easy to use SWBST acronym.
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#SUMitUP Summarizing Activity
Summarize fictional text through this whole-class station activity.
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Summarizing Fiction Slide Deck
Build summarizing skills with fiction texts using these teaching slides.
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Summarizing a Story Graphic Organizers
Help students remember the fundamentals of summarizing a story with this set of fun graphic organizers.
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Christmas Around the World - 4th Grade Reading Comprehension
Discover how Christmas is celebrated in the northern and southern hemispheres with printable reading comprehension sheets for 4th grade.
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New Year's Resolution and Goal Setting Workbook - Upper Grades
Learn about celebrations and make New Year’s resolutions with this 15-page activity booklet.
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4th Grade Writing Worksheets: Tornado Text-Based Writing
Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using 4th Grade writing worksheets and a high-interest reading passage about Tornadoes.
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Lewis and Clark Close Read Comprehension Pack
Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills with a close reading passage and activity pack about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Idioms Dominoes
Build vocabulary and have fun with idiom games.
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Ruby Bridges – Comprehension Task
Review our profile on 6-year-old civil rights figure Ruby Bridges, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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Black History Profile: Amelia Boynton - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on civil rights activist Amelia Boynton and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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International Women's Day Gender Ground Rules – Comic and Activity
A comic that shows an example of a gender stereotype.
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Black History Profile: Carol Moseley Braun - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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Black History Profile: Thomas Mundy Peterson - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on history-maker Thomas Mundy Peterson and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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Black History Profile: Shirley Chisholm - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on Congresswoman and first Black presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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Black History Profile: Barack Obama - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on the first African American President of the United States, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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International Women's Day Gender Ground Rules – Task Cards
A set of task cards to be paired with the International Women's Day comic 'Gender Ground Rules'.
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MLK Day Vocabulary Activity
Build dictionary and vocabulary skills by identifying the meanings of words related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights.
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Halloween Bulletin Board Set – Wrapped Up in a Good Book
Download a printable Halloween bulletin board set for your classroom library or school library. Showcase your students’ insightful book reviews with our Halloween-themed classroom display.
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My Nobel Peace Prize – Upper Grades
Encourage students to think about how they could make the world a better place with our Nobel Peace Prize writing template.
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Inspirational Woman Profile: Greta Thunberg – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension task to use when learning about Greta Thunberg.
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Inspirational Woman Profile: Obiageli Ezekwesili – Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on Nigerian social pioneer Obiageli Ezekwesili and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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S.W.B.S.T. Summarizing Graphic Organizer
Use this printable SWBST strategy graphic organizer with students to write a summary for a fictional piece of text.
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Innovative Inventors - Comprehension Worksheet
Meet famous Black History Month figures with this informational text and comprehension questions activity.
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Black History Profile: Kamala Harris - Comprehension Worksheet
Review our profile on Vice President Kamala Harris and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
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Grade 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 72-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Making Text Connections Recording Sheet
Make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections when reading a piece of text with this recording sheet
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Grade 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 1
A 70-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Grade 4 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 4 "What's Buzzing?" magazine.
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Character Analysis: New Year's Activity
Practice inferring how a character would ring in the new year with this 7-activity booklet.