reading workshop
Fourth grade reading units cover realistic fiction, informational non-fiction, historical fiction and the American Revolution.
Our classroom library is stocked with page turning realistic fiction, nonfiction weather disaster books, historical fiction gems as well as many other nonfiction texts. Independent reading time is always a favorite part of our day.
We will engage in book discussions and reviews, as well as written responses, focusing on author’s purpose, themes and symbolism. We will be supporting our thoughts with text evidence.
Fourth Grade Reader's Workshop Units of Study:
Fourth Grade Reader's Workshop Units of Study:
- Narrative - Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story
- Students will read fiction books and learn the major concepts of inferencing about characters, identifying character traits and how that supports character motivations, character responses and changes and theme.
- Informational - Reading the Weather, Reading the World: Purposeful Reading of Nonfiction
- Students will read informational books and learn the major concepts of identifying the main ideas and supporting details, analyzing parts of a book in relationship to the whole book, analyzing and identifying author's craft and researching across texts and synthesizing information.
- Historical Fiction: Historical Fiction Book Clubs
- Students will read historical fiction books and build on their previous learning of inferring about characters, traits, motivations, responses and changes, identifying characters perspectives and multiple perspectives concerning that historical topic, analyzing the story they're reading in relationship to the historical topic and synthesizing information across a variety of historical fiction texts.
- Informational: Reading History: The American Revolution
- Students will read informational books on the American Revolution and build on their previous learning of identifying the main idea and supporting details, analyzing one text in relationship to the topic as a whole, analyzing different perspectives on the overall topic and of a subtopic and researching across texts and synthesizing information.
CCSSI Standards - Reading Literary
CCSSI Standards - Reading Informational
CCSSI Standards - Reading Foundational