Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.1.2
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.1.2
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
- Using the reasons/evidence given, arrange reasons in a logical order.
- Match the facts or statements with the position that they support.
- Show how the order of the reasons in a given reading impacts the audience and supports the claim.
- Separate given sentences into reasons and facts.
- Investigate additional reasons that may provide further support for a topic and revise your writing to include them.
- Determine if facts and details in a reading adequately support each reason. Revise and provide additional facts and details as needed to offer necessary support for each reason.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student arranges reasons into a logical order. Logical order might be strongest to weakest, weakest to strongest, chronological order, or another order that can be logically defended.
- Student is given a set of positions and statements or facts that support those positions. Student will correctly match the statements with the position they support.
- Student provides insights into the order of the facts and details that support a claim and explains why the order is impactful. Logical orders may include weakest to strongest, chronological order, or another order that can be logically defended.
- Student is given a set of sentences with a mixture of claims and supporting reasons or facts. Student will separate the sentences to correctly identify whether each statement is a supporting fact or the main position/claim.
- The student researches and examines additional reasons that might provide support for the topic. If additional reasons are added to writing, their place in the logical flow of the piece is carefully considered.
- The student analyzes the reasons given and how they directly connect to and support the opinion stated in the reading. Reasons are properly revised if they don’t demonstrate a direct connection to, or strong support for, the stated opinion.
