ELA 4th Grade Informational Text

Description

• Explain cause-and-effect relationships (i.e., explain what happened and why) in a historical, scientific, or technical text by comprehending specific information in the text as well as by identifying individual cue words

• Explain the explicit meaning of an informational text based on evidence from the text (e.g., locate details and examples that explain an idea in the text)

• Identify and explain the main idea of an informational text and explain how key details support it

• Describe the organizational structure (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, sequential or chronological order) of an informational text or passage

• Determine the author's purpose (e.g., to inform, describe, entertain, explain, share feelings) and explain how the reader can determine the purpose

• Compare and contrast focus, emphasis, or information provided in firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic

• Recognize facts as things that can be proven and opinions as beliefs

• Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support a claim

• Integrate information from two nonfiction texts on the same topic into a broader understanding in order to write or speak knowledgeably about the topic

• Read regularly and independently in fourth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension

• Describe characteristics of different informational texts including biographies, history books, science books, and how-to texts