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Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
  1. Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
  2. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).
  3. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Standard #: LAFS.4.L.3.4Archived Standard
Standard Information
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 4
Strand: Language Standards
Idea: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
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Lesson Plans
  • The Amazon Rainforest # 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.
  • The Tree that Saved the Day! # 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.
  • Can Phineas L. MacGuire Achieve His Goal? # This lesson is to be used with chapter 1 of Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Slimed by Frances O'Roark Dowell. It includes comprehension questions, a writing prompt, and a rubric. Students will answer comprehension questions and write a response based on a prompt that asks the students for their opinion and requires students to support their opinion with evidence from the chapter.
  • Aesop's Fable "The Lost Wig" # 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.
Student Center Activities
  • Vocabulary: Rooting for Meaning! # 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.
  • Vocabulary: Affix Game # In this activity, students will make words containing affixes and use them in a sentence to show meaning while playing an affix game.
  • Vocabulary: Make it Meaningful # In this activity, students will determine and record the meanings of words with affixes. They will then sort them by affix meaning.
  • Vocabulary: Word Dissect # In this activity, students will segment words into base words and affixes to determine the meaning.
  • Vocabulary: Meaningful Affixes # In this activity, students will make words to match meanings by combining base words and affixes.
  • Vocabulary: Affix Concentration # In this activity, students will match affixes to their meanings by playing a memory game.
  • Vocabulary: All For One # In this activity, students will produce the multiple meanings of words and use the words in sentences that demonstrate understanding of the multiple meanings.
  • Vocabulary: Ask-A-Word # In this activity, students will demonstrate a deeper understanding of the meaning of words by completing a questionnaire.
  • Vocabulary: Choice Meanings # In this activity, students will identify the meaning of words in context.
  • Vocabulary: Cloze Encounters # In this activity, students will choose words based on meaning to complete sentences in a cloze passage.
  • Vocabulary: Context Clues # In this activity, students will read sentences containing context clues and sort by the type of context clue.
  • Vocabulary: Defining Depictions # In this activity, students will depict words by drawing pictures that relate to their meaning.
  • Vocabulary: Dictionary Cube #
    In this activity, students will identify the meaning of words and word-related information using a dictionary.
  • Vocabulary: Dictionary Digs # In this activity, students will look up target words in a dictionary and record specific information.
  • Vocabulary: Get a Clue! # In this activity, students will determine the meanings of unknown words using context clues.
  • Vocabulary: Getting to the Root of It # In this activity, students will identify words with common roots and related meanings and sort them on a sorting board.
  • Vocabulary: Know or No # 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.
  • Vocabulary: Looking for Meaning # In this activity, students will determine the meanings of unknown words and rewrite sentences from text to demonstrate their understanding.
  • Vocabulary: Meaning Extender # In this activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of words by applying them to a variety of contexts.
  • Vocabulary: Oh My Word! # In this activity, students will write simple definitions, sentences, and synonyms of words on a recording sheet.
  • Vocabulary: Root-A-Word # In this activity, students will identify and sort words containing the same root.
  • Vocabulary: Root-O! # In this activity, students will produce words containing the same root and identify their meanings.
  • Vocabulary: Undercover Meanings # In this activity, students will write simple definitions, sentences, and examples of target words in a graphic organizer.
  • Vocabulary: What Do You Mean? #
    In this activity, students will match words to their meanings.
  • Vocabulary: Word Clues #
    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.
  • Vocabulary: Word Share # In this activity, students will find, discuss, record, and define selected words in a text.
  • Vocabulary: Word Winner # In this activity, students will use strategies to identify the meanings of unknown words in context.
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