RI.4.6 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.6
:"Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided."
These worksheets, workbooks, lesson plans, and teacher editions can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Worksheets
Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View
This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.
5th Grade
Worksheet
Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction
Worksheet
Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction
Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.
4th Grade
Worksheet
Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
Worksheet
Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.
4th Grade
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Firsthand or Secondhand Account?
Worksheet
Firsthand or Secondhand Account?
During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.
4th Grade
Worksheet
Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
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Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.
4th Grade
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Point of View Practice: The Tsunami of 2004
Worksheet
Point of View Practice: The Tsunami of 2004
Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the
Worksheet
Lesson Plans
He Said/She Said, I Said/You Said
Lesson plan
He Said/She Said, I Said/You Said
In this engaging lesson, students compare and contrast a firsthand account and a secondhand account of the same historical event: the sinking of the Titanic.
4th Grade
Lesson plan
EL
Shifting Points of View
Lesson plan
Shifting Points of View
This lesson gives students practice identifying first person and third person narration in fiction and nonfiction texts. It could be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Fiction vs. Nonfiction.
4th Grade
Lesson plan
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Who Is Telling the Story?
Lesson plan
Who Is Telling the Story?
Help your ELs see the connection between nouns and pronouns and the author's point of view, or perspective, in fiction and nonfiction texts. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Two Points of View.
4th Grade
Lesson plan
Workbooks
Gold Rush
Workbook
Gold Rush
There are nuggets of California history in this here workbook! The California Gold Rush sets the stage to practice reading and social studies skills.
Social studies
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Games
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Exercises
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Teacher Editions
Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 4: Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Voice
Teacher Edition
Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 4: Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Voice
Help students’ writing skills evolve with each page!
Teacher Edition
Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 4: Ideas and Organization
Teacher Edition
Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 4: Ideas and Organization
Fourth graders’ writing skills will grow and advance with this vital resource!
Teacher Edition
