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Rutherford County Schools – Instructional Guide

Grade Course4 ELA

Unit FocusTopic – Identify theme and make inferences based on textual evidenceGuiding Questions:How do the character’s actions help determine and support the theme? How is the central message conveyed throughout the story? What specific details in the text lead you to that conclusion? What can you infer from what you have read? Can you give specific examples from the text that support your thinking? Big Idea: Determine the central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; make logical inferences from details in the text.

Week of April 27th – May 1st Standards

4.RL.KID.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in a text; summarize the text.-I can use text evidence to identify the theme of the story to help me understand the story’s important message.-I can identify the most important events and details in the story to write a summary and better understand what I read.

4. RL.KID.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.-I can use story details and examples to explain what the story says and to support inferences I make.

4.FL.VA.7a - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.-I can analyze meaningful word parts and use words that I know to help me determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.

ResourcesText: "The Little Red Hen" (Source: CommonLit)

Tasks*See Suggested Pacing below*Day 1 -Day 2 -Day 3 -Day 4 - Day 5 -

Choose an assignment from iReady Reading each day!

Expected OutcomesAt the conclusion of the tasks outlined above, students should be able to determine the theme of a text, identify unknown words and phrases using context clues, and summarize a text. Students should be able to use the text to answer text-dependent questions

Resources and Suggestions

Graphic Organizers/Anchor Charts

For more ideas, go here.

Comprehension

Read & Annotate Text

Questions

Other Ideas

Vocabulary

Context Clues - Student will determine the meaning of words using context clues in the text (fashion, distribute, morsels, sty, slender, inquiries, idle, briskly, threshed, vigorous, bewildered, snippy, glee, cunning, luxury, anticipation)

Technology

The Little Red Hen Video

BrainPOP - Student will watch “Theme” video for review. Teacher can “assign” other activities with the video such as the “Related Reading” and “Quiz” for students to complete after viewing the video.

BrainPop - Student can watch “Part of Speech” video for review. Teacher can “assign” other activities related to the video such as the quiz and sortify game.

Nearpod – Student will complete “Determining the theme of a story” Nearpod for review. Flocabulary - student will watch “context clues” video for review. Teacher can “assign” other activities with the video

such as the “quiz” and “read and respond” for students to complete after viewing the video.Grammar

Parts of Speech – Have students circle or underline specific parts of speech throughout the story. Grammaropolis is an app on Clever that students can use to review the parts of speech with videos and practice before doing this Parts of Speech activity. (The dashboard image below shows review for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections)

Potential Mentor Sentence Ideas – 1. “On the ground lay the nicely cut Wheat, ready to be gathered and threshed, but the newest and yellowest and downiest of Mrs. Hen’s chicks set up a “peep-peep-peeping” in their most vigorous fashion, proclaiming to the world at large, but most particularly to their mother, that she was neglecting them.”2. “Although she appeared to be perfectly calm, in reality she could only with difficulty restrain an impulse to dance and sing, for

had she not done all the work on this wonderful bread?”

Extensions

Discussion Questions

Extension for Determining Theme - Teacher can assign additional text (based on teacher knowledge of student abilities) such as another folktale. The student can read to determine theme and/or compare and contrast themes. Suggested paired texts from CommonLit: “The Fox, the Hen, and the Drum” (820 Lexile), “Stop the Hungry Giant Fish” (780 Lexile) *Note: teachers should NOT use “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” on CommonLit this week, as it will be the main text for the week of May 4th

More Ideas

Remediation

Finding Theme in a Poem- Teacher can assign a poem for students to read and determine theme. Suggested poem: “Grown Up” (ReadWorks 430 Lexile)*Note: this text is at a lower Lexile level and students who need reteaching/extra practice would benefit from this text and the comprehension questions provided on the website

Writing

Opinion Writing- In your opinion, do you think Little Red Hen was justified in her decision not to share the bread with Rat, Cat, and Pig at the end of the story? Support your opinion with reasons and evidence from the text. Follow the conventions of standard written English. *Teacher may provide a graphic organizer for students to organize thoughts before writing*Teacher may have to provide a definition or explanation of the word justified as it is used in the prompt

Other Standards Connections

4.RL.CS.6 - POV 4.RL.KID.3 – Character Traits

Collaboration

4th Grade PadletTeams Chat – Discuss questions via Teams call or Teams chat

IReady

4 th Grade Ready Reading Resources

Suggested Pacing

Day 1- Read and annotate text, summarizing graphic organizer, 2-3 vocabulary words (context clues)

Day 2- Reread the text, theme graphic organizer, 2-3 vocabulary words (context clues)

Day 3- Reread the text if needed, Discussion questions (suggestion: Flipgrid), 2-3 vocabulary words (context clues)

Day 4- Comprehension questions, 2-3 vocabulary words (context clues)

Day 5- Writing prompt (choice of opinion or extension writing prompt), 2-3 vocabulary words (context clues)

Choose an assignment from iReady Reading each day!

***Teacher Tips:

Select from any of the suggested resources or create your own to support the needs of your individual students.

Create a reading choice board for students to use with “The Little Red Hen” text or independent reading

Daily tasks should take approximately 30 minutes/day