Suds may have been the perfect third-grade angels last year, but now that he's in fourth grade it's time to be... a rat! His best friend, Joey, knows all about being a rat: pushing little kids off the swings, saying good-bye to lunch boxes and PB&J, and definitely no crying allowed. Suds isn't so sure he wants to be a rat, but Joey is quickly becoming the most popular kid in class with his trouble-making ways. Even Just Billings is starting to pay attention. If Suds doesn't become a rat, will her just turn... invisible?
Elements of Fiction
Character Analysis
Text Based Evidence
I can use specific details from the text to describe characters, settings, or events.
I can analyze an author's words and refer to details and examples needed to support both explicit and inferential questions.
I can analyze and identify character traits using the FAST strategy.
4.RF.1 - Apply foundational reading skills to build reading fluency and comprehension.
4.RL.1 - Read and comprehend a variety of literature within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 4-5. By the end of grade 4, students interact with texts proficiently and independently at the low end of the range and with scaffolding as needed at the high end.
4.RV.1 - Build and use accurately general academic and content-specific words and phrases.
4.RL.2.3 - Describe a character, setting, or event in a story or play, drawing on specific details in the text, and how that impacts the plot.
4.RL.2.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what a text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
In-class student resources are teacher-based novel units. They are available upon request.
Fourth Grade Rats Chapter Read Alouds
Blooket
EdPuzzle
Google Apps
Interactive Notebook Materials
Baamboozle
WordWall
Reading Counts