English Language Arts and Literature 4
English Language Arts Projects and Lessons
Use personal writing to reflect on ideas, information and experiences: 1.2.2
Organize ideas and information using chronological order: 3.3.1
Students will use the picture prompt templates to help promote writing about personal experiences. The planner will help them establish chronological order of their thoughts. Using the funnel template may also help them focus their writing.
Use dictionaries to confirm the spellings of unfamiliar words in texts: 2.1.13
Students will use the Scrabble template in daily 5 activities to create words based upon the centers theme or language concept. Students can use electronic or junior dictionaries to confirm the spellings of their words during the game.
Extend sight vocabulary to include words frequently used in other subject areas: 2.1.5
This is a cross curricular activity where students will create a vocabulary list complete with visuals to help them remember and explain key words in other subject areas. The template can be adjusted for other subjects and not just Social Studies. You can also adjust the supplied word list.
Social Studies 4 Visual Dictionary
Poetry Templates, Ideas, and ProgressionExperience 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.
Develop own opinions based on ideas encountered in print texts: 2.2.9
Experiment with combining voice over and dialogue with sequence of events: 4.1.10
Adjust volume, tone of voice to suit a variety of social and classroom activities: 4.3.3
Students will use the novel summary template and the review template to complete activities for a novel study. Students will create summaries and learn how to add images and voice overs to explain the novel. Templates can be adjusted for any novel or any number of chapters.
Novel Summary and ReviewNovel Summary and ReviewExplain how language and visuals work together to enhance effect: 2.2.11
Students will use the silhouette template to create a visual of themselves while experimenting with font and style to communicate meaning about themselves. Using Pixlr is a good option for student created silhouettes.
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.
Picture PromptsOrganize 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.
Student resource: ELA Storyboard Template 4th Grade Nothing 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.
ELA 4 - Compound SentencesIdentify 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.
Sentence Variety LessonThis Poetry Unit contains lessons, activities, and templates for creating acrostics, cinquain, similes, onomatopoeia, haikus, blackout poetry and more.
Poetry UnitWhere 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
LA 4 Novel Study OverviewGeneral Language Arts Templates
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Additional Resources
Storyline Online - view and listen to stories being read aloud by actors.
Teaching Books - TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment.
Aesop's Fables Modern and Traditional
Grade Four Reading Comprehension Practice Tests
Practice Reading Section Grade 4
RazKids - Online leveled Reading Library- Subscription
Storybird - Art Inspired Collaborative Story Telling! Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing!
Scholastic Story Starters - A creative activity that can be different every time you try it. Select your grade and then spin the wheels to see what your story will be about. Then, choose a format for the story.
Character traits list - From Read Write Think.org
Create Your Own Comic - Reading and writing activities from Marvel Comics.
Make Beliefs Comix - Create your own comic strip
ToonDoo Comic book creator tool
Eye on Idioms - After viewing the literal representation of each idiom, students are asked to complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list.
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 4 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 5 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 6 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Road To Grammar - (365 grammar quizzes)
Grammar Gorillas - An online grammar game; if you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana.