Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RL.4.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Review | 10-11 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Model | 90-91 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RL.4.3: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Review | 10-11 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RL.4.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Recommend | 58-59 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RL.4.9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Contrast | 40-41 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.4.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.4.2: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Support | 22-23 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.4.3: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Compare | 38-39 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.4.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.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.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Describe | 24-25 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.4.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Compare | 38-39 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.4.9: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.4.8: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Support | 22-23 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.4.7: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.4.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Model | 90-91 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.4.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Explain | 18-19 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Text Types and Purposes
ELA.W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Support | 22-23 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Express | 46-47 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.4.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.4.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 4)
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Production and Distribution of Writing
ELA.W.4.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
ELA.W.4.8: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
ELA.W.4.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Report | 16-17 |
Support | 22-23 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
ELA.W.4.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Display | 14-15 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Model | 90-91 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.4.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.4.3: Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Review | 10-11 |
Report | 16-17 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Express | 46-47 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Model | 90-91 |
Comprehension and Collaboration
ELA.SL.4.2: Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Report | 16-17 |
Support | 22-23 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.4.6: Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task and situation.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Display | 14-15 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Conventions of Standard English
ELA.L.4.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Conventions of Standard English
ELA.L.4.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Knowledge of Language
ELA.L.4.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Take Notes | 8-9 |
Review | 10-11 |
Collaborate | 12-13 |
Display | 14-15 |
Report | 16-17 |
Explain | 18-19 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Describe | 24-25 |
Choose | 26-27 |
Plan | 28-29 |
Identify | 30-31 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Compare | 38-39 |
Contrast | 40-41 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Relate | 44-45 |
Express | 46-47 |
Contribute | 48-49 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Organize | 54-55 |
Conclude/Draw a Conclusion | 56-57 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Estimate | 60-61 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Arrange | 66-67 |
Analyze | 68-69 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Illustrate | 72-73 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Proofread | 78-79 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Infer/Make an Inference | 100-101 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Review | 10-11 |
Display | 14-15 |
Develop | 20-21 |
Support | 22-23 |
Argue | 32-33 |
Recognize | 34-35 |
Reflect | 42-43 |
Express | 46-47 |
Combine | 50-51 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Recommend | 58-59 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Evaluate | 70-71 |
Interpret | 74-75 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Persuade | 82-83 |
Compose | 84-85 |
Outline | 88-89 |
Model | 90-91 |
Classify | 92-93 |
Summarize | 94-95 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.4.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Explain | 18-19 |
Indicate | 36-37 |
Question | 64-65 |
Distinguish | 80-81 |
Clarify | 96-97 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
ELA.L.4.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Activity | Pages |
---|---|
Express | 46-47 |
Predict | 52-53 |
Cite | 62-63 |
Question | 64-65 |
Justify | 76-77 |
Convey | 86-87 |
Model | 90-91 |
Revise | 98-99 |
Visualize | 102-103 |
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