Standard #: LAFS.4.L.3.4 (Archived Standard)

In this lesson, students will conduct a close reading of an informational article about pythons in the Everglades. Students will use a variety of strategies to determine the meaning of selected academic words in context, and they will sort selected tier 3 words into categories and examine the relationships between words in a category. Students will also answer text-dependent questions about the article and identify and describe the cause/effect structure used throughout the article. Students will complete an informational paragraph about the events that are occurring in the Everglades using text evidence to support their ideas. Graphic organizers, answer keys, and a writing rubric have been provided with the lesson.

In this lesson, students will read an informational article about the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. Students will identify and describe the cause/effect structure used throughout the article. Students will write an expository paragraph about events occurring in the Amazon Rainforest.

In this lesson, students will read an informational picture book about a community in Africa that plants mangrove trees to help the community. Students will use a variety of strategies to determine the meaning of selected academic words in context. Students will also identify and describe the central idea and relevant details used throughout the book in order to write a summary paragraph.

This is a close reading lesson on Chapter 1 of Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Slimed by Frances O'Roark Dowell. It includes graphic organizers, a writing prompt, and a rubric. Students will use context clues to discover the meaning of unknown words, answer text-dependent questions, complete a character analysis, and write an opinion piece.

This lesson on Aesop's Fable "The Lost Wig" will provide students the opportunity to share and discuss their ideas of the fable’s theme. Students will work together in cooperative pairs to determine the theme "The Lost Wig." They will also have the opportunity to add on to the ending of "The Lost Wig" to enhance the theme.

The goal of this two to three day exemplar is to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they've been practicing on a regular basis to absorb deep lessons from Richard Feynman's recollections of interactions with his father. By reading and rereading the passage closely, and focusing their reading through a series of questions and discussion about the text, students will identify how and why Feynman started to look at the world through the eyes of a scientist. When combined with writing about the passage, students will discover how much they can learn from a memoir.

In this activity, students will identify the meaning of roots while playing a match game. As an extension activity, students will use roots to create words.

In this activity, students will make words containing affixes and use them in a sentence to show meaning while playing an affix game.

In this activity, students will determine and record the meanings of words with affixes. They will then sort them by affix meaning.

In this activity, students will segment words into base words and affixes to determine the meaning.

In this activity, students will make words to match meanings by combining base words and affixes.

In this activity, students will match affixes to their meanings by playing a memory game.

In this activity, students will produce the multiple meanings of words and use the words in sentences that demonstrate understanding of the multiple meanings.

In this activity, students will demonstrate a deeper understanding of the meaning of words by completing a questionnaire.

In this activity, students will identify the meaning of words in context.

In this activity, students will choose words based on meaning to complete sentences in a cloze passage.

In this activity, students will read sentences containing context clues and sort by the type of context clue.

In this activity, students will depict words by drawing pictures that relate to their meaning.

In this activity, students will identify the meaning of words and word-related information using a dictionary.

In this activity, students will look up target words in a dictionary and record specific information.

In this activity, students will determine the meanings of unknown words using context clues.

In this activity, students will identify words with common roots and related meanings and sort them on a sorting board.

In this activity, students will sort words based on their understanding of the words' meanings. They will then determine the meanings of the words and record them.

In this activity, students will determine the meanings of unknown words and rewrite sentences from text to demonstrate their understanding.

In this activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of words by applying them to a variety of contexts.

In this activity, students will write simple definitions, sentences, and synonyms of words on a recording sheet.

In this activity, students will identify and sort words containing the same root.

In this activity, students will produce words containing the same root and identify their meanings.

In this activity, students will write simple definitions, sentences, and examples of target words in a graphic organizer.

In this activity, students will match words to their meanings.

In this activity, students will use reference materials to develop clues about target words. They will provide the clues to a partner until the target word is identified.

In this activity, students will find, discuss, record, and define selected words in a text.

In this activity, students will use strategies to identify the meanings of unknown words in context.

In this lesson tied to academic standards for English/Language Arts, students receive support as they read a complex informational text about honeybees. The teacher facilitates a close reading and writing a response-to-text.