Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.4
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.4
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
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Highlight the sensory details found in a given set of sentences.
- Stretch given simple sentence to include additional sensory details.
- Modify given sentences to use concrete language.
- Revise paragraphs to use sensory details to enhance the sentences.
- Assess and revise own narrative writing for concrete language and sensory details.
- Critique a narrative writing sample and illustrate how sensory details add to the reader’s experience.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student will be given a list of sentences. Student will review the sentences and highlight any examples of sensory details.
- Student will expand simple sentences given to include sensory details. For example the sentence “The air smelled nice.” To something like “The air smelled of suntan lotion and salt water.”
- Student will revise given sentences to use concrete language. Students may employ concrete language across multiple senses to fully describe a situation or setting. To describe a carnival, for example, the student may describe the lights, the smells of the carnival food, the sounds of the rides against the workers coaxing attendees to play their games, etc.
- Student will revise given paragraphs to include sensory details. Student should attempt to use concrete words and sensory details to enhance the reader’s experience with the paragraph.
- Student carefully reviews his/her own narrative writing. Student locates areas that can be improved upon using concrete language or sensory details. The concrete language should not be added without thought; the student should identify the places where sensory details and concrete language provide the most impact to the reader.
- Student critiques a narrative writing sample. Student locates examples where the author used concrete language and uses those examples in their critique to support the use of concrete language and the impact it has on a reader’s experience and understanding.
