English Language Arts and Literature 4

Experience a variety of genres such as poetry: 2.2.1

Recognize how words and word combinations influence or convey meaning: 2.3.6

Students will use the various poetry templates to learn about a specific poetic style while learning how these styles convey meaning of an idea in a specific way. 

Select and use visuals that enhance meaning of print texts: 2.4.2

Connect own ideas to those communicated in visual presentations: 4.3.4

Students will use the provided picture prompts to create narratives based upon the visuals and their own ideas or experiences. 

Organize ideas and information using chronological order: 3.3.1

Students will use the organization template to summarize a novel using visuals and text. The template can be adjusted for different novels and for a variety of different chapters.

Identify simple and compound sentence structures and use in own writing: 4.2.1

Students will use the Google Slides template to explore what makes a compound sentence a compound sentence. They will also learn the skills of copy and pasting objects in a multi-media format. 

Identify simple and compound sentence structures: 4.2.1

Students will use the sentence variety activity to learn about simple and compound sentence structures. They will also develop their own sentences to display their own understanding of the structures. 

This Poetry Unit contains lessons, activities, and templates for creating acrostics, cinquain, similes, onomatopoeia, haikus, blackout poetry and more.

Where is James? - Students travel along with a character in a novel and develop reading responses along the way, using Google Earth, MyMaps and blogging.  Example project is done with James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.   Evaluation_Rubric