Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.1
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Activities
- Identify the characters found in a narrative reading passage.
- Arrange the given events of a narrative reading passage into sequential order.
- Make observations about the narrator/characters of a narrative reading passage.
- Construct a timeline of events from a given narrative reading passage.
- Assess the main character’s or narrator’s character traits from a narrative reading passage.
- Formulate a new event for a narrative reading passage based on known events and character traits from a given reading passage.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student will read a narrative reading passage and correctly identify the characters or narrator of the reading passage.
- Student will read a narrative reading passage. Student will then receive a set of events from the reading and will be responsible for arranging the events into the sequential order found in the reading passage.
- Student will read a narrative reading passage and record observations about the narrator or a main character found in the reading. The observations should include physical appearance (when applicable) as well as character traits, motivations and behaviors.
- Student will construct a timeline of events found in a given narrative reading passage. The timeline should follow the sequential order of the events found in the reading passage. The timeline may differentiate between main plot points and more subtle events.
- Student reads a narrative reading passage and creates a character profile of a main character. This character profile should include positive attributes of the character as well as any faults. If possible, the character assessment should include motivation behind the character’s actions.
- Student will read a given narrative writing piece and create a new event that would work in the story’s timeline. This event should be consistent with the reading’s setting, tone, theme and character traits. This event should be created by implementing known character traits and events from the story and imagining them in a new scenario.
