Writing Instruction Webinars - Collaborative Conversations on Building a Culture of Writing is an interactive professional learning series designed to build teachers’ capacity for writing instruction while cultivating a culture of writing. Teachers in grades K – 5 and 6 – 12 will work through seven uniquely designed sessions, where researchers and educators will share research-based writing and literacy practices along with practical classroom application. These include webinars/videos as instruction for teachers.
Writing Checklists - These checklists can be used by students and/or a partner. This self-assessment can be used for one of the following writing types: narrative, expository, or persuasive/opinion. There are 3 pages to this document.
Understanding of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement - Lesson standards: RI1, RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, RI9, SL1, Sl2, SL3. Students will gain an understanding of why Rosa Parks is considered the mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Reading Strategy using crosschecking - Standards covered: RF3, RF4. Using reading strategies together helps students learn that we often use more than one strategy at a time to decode unknown words. Crosschecking is a strategy where students use their use of sounds and meaning to determine if they are correct.
Reading Strategy by decoding big words - Standards covered: RF3, RF4. Fourth graders can decode big words by returning to their reading roots of using decoding. This lesson gives the name to a strategy that they have used and now asking them to use it to make sure they maintain reading accuracy.
Opinion Writing Unit Plan - This particular unit focuses on the opinion genre. Students are challenged to consider their task, audience, and purpose while writing a meaningful piece. The unit includes several days of resources and a rubric.
Interactive Cube Lesson - The Bio Cube interactive has been changed to a new format: the Cube Creator. Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned. The interactive Cube Creator offers including: bio cube, mystery cube, story cube, create your own cube.
Georgia Milestones Grade 4 Study/Resource Guide for Students and Parent - The Georgia Milestones Grade 4 Study/Resource Guide for Students and Parents is intended as a resource for parents and students. It contains sample questions and helpful activities to provide an idea of what test questions look like on Georgia Milestones and what the Grade 5 End-of-Grade (EOG) assessment covers. These sample questions are fully explained and tells why each answer is either correct or incorrect.
Georgia Milestones Grade 4 EOG Test Blueprints - These test blueprints are designed to communicate the structure of the Georgia Milestones measures, and are not intended to be used for instructional planning purposes. The blueprints outline the types of items students will encounter on each content area/course test, as well as the number of items and number of points possible (for those tests which include constructed-response items).
Georgia Milestones EOG Content Weights - Grade-level charts provide the approximate weights for domains on each Georgia Milestones Assessment in grade 4. Each Georgia Milestones Assessment is aligned to the state-adopted content standards.
Fourth Grade ELA Learning Progression - The visual and selected standards for reading highlight the increase in complexity over the course of the year for reading (informational, literacy, foundational), writing, speaking and learning, and language.
Finding common themes in text using multiple sources - Standards covered: RL1, RL2, RL3, RL10, SL1. Students synthesize the information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text.
ELA - Grade 4 - Teacher Guidance - The Grade 4 ELA Teacher Guidance Document offers suggested student learning targets, suggested teaching strategies, sample tasks for integration, and suggested concepts for providing instruction around each standard
Connections between different text - Standards covered: RL1, RL5, RL7, RL10. Understanding poetry and finding specific text evidence to support answers to questions is a necessary step to becoming a good reader.
Analyzing Story Elements using Mentor Text - Standards covered in the lesson: RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4, RL6, SL1a., SL1b., SL1c. The students will use a graphic organizer to construct a character sketch in order to introduce the main character, Bud. They will provide textual evidence to support their description of Bud.
Analyzing Story Elements - Standards: RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4, RL6. Students will use a story map to analyze story elements of the story "Grandfather's Journey."
4th Grade ELA Standards - This a 6 page document with all ELA standards for fourth grade. There is also a learning progression chart on the last page.
4th Grade ELA Curriculum Map - This is a sample curriculum map created be the GaDOE. This includes each quarter and the sequential order of standards that teachers can use to teach ELA standards for a year.