Trimester 2

Class novels (read aloud) that will serve as mentor texts throughout this unit:

Various Weather books, including Everything Weather by Kathy Furgang

What Was the Gold Rush? by Joan Holub

Reading Informational Texts Learning Objectives:

• Key Ideas and Details – refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text; determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text; explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

• Craft and Structure – determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area; describe the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text; compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas – interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears; explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text; integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Reading Skills:

• Reading Foundational Skills Phonics and Word Recognition – use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read accurately unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context and out of context.

• Fluency – read on-level text with purpose and understanding; read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings; use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.