Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.1.4
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.1.4
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
- Identify the concluding statement in a persuasive reading passage.
- Read a persuasive reading text and select the appropriate conclusion from a set of concluding statements provided.
- Read a given reading passage and construct a concluding statement.
- Modify existing concluding sentence in a reading passage to provide additional detail.
- Construct a conclusion to your own persuasive writing paragraph that supports the opinions presented.
- Critique the conclusion to a given persuasive writing passage and provide detailed notes about the strength of the conclusion with regards to the opinions presented within the writing. Revise the conclusion to incorporate the improvements you suggested.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student reads a given persuasive writing text and correctly identifies the concluding statement.
- Student is given a persuasive text with a few (at least 3) concluding statements. Student will identify the best conclusion from the list based on the text.
- Student will read a persuasive reading passage and construct a concluding statement. This statement should support the opinions voiced in the reading passage. Strong conclusions will restate the opinions and possibly the strongest supporting statement, or two.
- Student is given a persuasive reading passage that contains a very generic conclusion. Student will identify the conclusion and make modifications to make it a strong conclusion.
- Student writes a persuasive paragraph presenting an opinion and supporting details/opinions of such. Student will write a strong conclusion to the paragraph, restating the opinion and including the strongest piece of support.
- Student will read a given persuasive writing piece and critique the conclusion provided. Student will revise the conclusion to make the conclusion stronger by including details found within the text.
