Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.B-C.3.1.1
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.B-C.3.1.1
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
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Record author’s use of facts and opinions on chart.
- Sort given statements into fact and opinion.
- Identify the claim in an informational reading passage.
- Identify the supporting details from an informational reading passage and add one of your own.
- Write a summary of an informational reading passage citing evidence found from the reading.
- Critique the claim and reasons used by the author of a reading passage to offer a counterclaim.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student will create a list of the opinions found in an informational text. Teacher will provide the claim and the student will identify the supporting evidence.
- Student will sort given statements into the headings of fact and opinion. Student may use a graphic organizer to sort the statements.
- Student is given an informational reading passage. Student will correctly identify the claim (or opinion) of the passage. Student should display differentiation of the supporting evidence and the claim itself.
- Student will identify the supporting details from an informational text that supports the claim. Student will add an additional supporting detail that he/she creates.
- Student will write a summary of an informational reading passage, citing evidence found in the text.
- Student will critique the claim and supporting details in a persuasive reading passage. Student will generate a counter claim and will provide evidence and details to support this counter claim.
