RF.4.4 Lesson Plans
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4
:"Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension."
        
        These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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                        Calling All Homophones
                    
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                Calling All Homophones
            
            
            
                Write right with homophones! This interactive lesson will help students with their understanding of homophones by differentiating homophones through motion and how they are used in sentences.            
            
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                        Reading Closely
                    
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                Reading Closely
            
            
            
                Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It's packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.            
            
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                        Día de los Muertos: Traditions in History
                    
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                Día de los Muertos: Traditions in History
            
            
            
                Sugar skulls and fancy dress aren't all there is to the Day of the Dead. In this lesson students will learn about several societies that celebrate their dead, as well as some of the history behind the traditions of the Día de los Muertos.            
            
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                        Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense
                    
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                Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense
            
            
            
                Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.            
            
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                        Detective Reading
                    
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                Detective Reading
            
            
            
                Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.            
            
                                                            4th Grade                                                    
                                                
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                        Middle Atlantic State Migration
                    
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                Middle Atlantic State Migration
            
            
            
                In this lesson, your students will use guiding questions as a way to organize their thoughts about non-fiction reading. They will also gain an understanding of some of the factors that led to the colonization of the Middle Atlantic States.            
            
                                                            4th Grade                                                    
                                                
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                        Rein in the Run-Ons
                    
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                Rein in the Run-Ons
            
            
            
                Are your students having trouble taming run-on sentences into a more manageable length? In this lesson, your students will learn to not only recognize a run-on sentence, but also how to stop it in its tracks.            
            
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                        Immigration: Ellis Island
                    
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                Immigration: Ellis Island
            
            
            
                This is a lesson about the immigration procedures at Ellis Island. Students will learn about the process and creatively write about what it was like for immigrants to pass through Ellis Island.            
            
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                        Who Said It?
                    
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                Who Said It?
            
            
            
                Students will have a blast creating their own cartoons and comics. This lesson provides an engaging method to help students demonstrate the use of quotation marks when writing.            
            
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                        Jazzy Bio Poems
                    
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                Jazzy Bio Poems
            
            
            
                Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians! This lesson would fit perfectly in a unit about biographies or Black History Month.            
            
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                        State Memories
                    
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                State Memories
            
            
            
                In this lesson, your students will practice writing about places important to them through poetry. By the time they are done, students will have become better writers and taken a walk down memory lane!            
            
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                        What's For Breakfast?
                    
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                What's For Breakfast?
            
            
            
                Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.            
            
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                        Understanding Character Traits, Understanding Plot Lesson Part III
                    
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                Understanding Character Traits, Understanding Plot Lesson Part III
            
            
            
                Have you ever read a story and immediately began to compare the characters to those of your favorite story? In this lesson, students will learn to read context clues and descriptions in order to understand characters and compare them.            
            
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                        Where Am I?, Understanding Plot Lesson Part IIII
                    
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                Where Am I?, Understanding Plot Lesson Part IIII
            
            
            
                Sometimes authors choose to describe their setting for readers to imagine, but don't actually tell them where the story is set! In this lesson, students will learn to deduce settings from context.            
            
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                        Prepositional Phrases as Key Details
                    
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                Prepositional Phrases as Key Details
            
            
            
                Help your ELs familiarize themselves with prepositional phrases as they search for supporting details in nonfiction texts. This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson.             
            
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                        Fourth Grade Fluency Fun!
                    
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                Fourth Grade Fluency Fun!
            
            
            
                We often conduct reading fluency tests on our students without explicitly teaching this skill. Use this lesson, which incorporates student peer review, to help raise awareness of reading fluency while improving it.            
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                        Read with Expression!
                    
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                Read with Expression!
            
            
            
                Knowing how to identify types of sentences and read each kind with expression is an important component of reading fluency. This EL support lesson can be taught on its own or used as precursor to the lesson Fourth Grade Fluency Fun!            
            
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                        Read with Expression!
                    
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                Read with Expression!
            
            
            
                Knowing how to identify types of sentences and read each kind with expression is an important component of reading fluency. This English Learner support lesson can be taught on its own or used as precursor to Fourth Grade Fluency Fun!            
            
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                        Main Idea and Supporting Evidence
                    
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                Main Idea and Supporting Evidence
            
            
            
                Use this lesson to help your ELs identify the main idea and supporting evidence in a short fictional text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Reading Closely.            
            
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