Grade Level:
4th
Date:
Sept.2
Subject:
Reading
Prepared By:
R. Kesselring
Schedule:
What discoveries can people make when they cooperate?
Standards addressed
L.3.5b Identify real life connections between words and their use.
L.3.6 Acquire and use accurately grade appropriate conversational
general academic and domain specific words and phrases
Rl.3.2 Recount stories, fables, folk tales, and myths from diverse
cultures, determine the central message or morals and explain how it
is conveyed through key details in the text.
Rl.3.10 by the end of the year read and comprehend literature,
including stories, drama, and poetry at the high end of the grade 2-3
text complexity band independently and proficiently
RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a
text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RL.3.3. Describe characters in a story (e.g. their traits, motivations, or
feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of
events.
Rl.3.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories
written by the same author or similar characters (e.g. in books from a
series.)
L.3.4a Use sentence level content as a clue to the meaning of a word
or phrase.
L.4.4.c Consult reference materials (e.g. dictionaries, glossaries,
thesaurus both in print and digital to find the pronunciation and
determine or clarify the precise meaning of key word and phrases.
L.3.5.a Distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings of words and
phrases in context (e.g. take steps.)
RF.3.3a Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes
and derivational suffixes.
RF. 3.3c Decode multisyllable words.
Goals & Objectives
Activities
Materials
Assessment
Mon Labor Day
Observe student
Tue Introduce yourself
Define expectations
Introduce school
routines
Write about summer
events.
Participate in an introducing activity about
yourself
Go over classroom rules, school rules,
material requirements, and teacher
expectations.
Summer writing paper.
Classroom rules print out
Teacher requirement print out.
Writing paper for summer
interaction and
cooperation with each
other. Use writing as a
baseline to establish
ability, grammar, and
spelling.
Wed Discuss times when
people work together to
accomplish a goal
Introduce genre and story
structure
Do first read of Kaffa’s
Discovery to establish
reading routine.
Generate words that go with teamwork
Introduce the different genre with examples
Talk about Story Structure using story
element words.
Establish by example the vocabulary
routine of define/example/ask
Venn diagram #61
Vocabulary notebooks
Vocabulary words from Kaffa’s for word
wall.
Kaffa’s Discovery PDF handout
PDF Start Smart 3 (genre)
Participation in creating
Venn Diagram
Story structure notes
Reading discussion
Access Complex Text p.
59
Thurs Review story
map using Kaffa’s
discovery
Do close reading
activities p S12
Introduce the routine of
inferencing
Complete story map
Define them and point of view
Compare Annie’s and Kaffa’s point of view
by citing text evidence
Summarize the events of the story. Try to
work in pairs and read to class.
Notebook
Kaffa Discovery print out
Teacher’s manuel TS12-13
Story Map completion
Write a summary
Fri Introduce context
clues, the different
types, synonyms,
thesaurus Word
building using
multisyllabic word
strategy
Define, discuss, and go over examples of
context clues
Look up synonyms using a thesaurus and
creating synonym flowers.
Show word parts of prefix, base/root word/
suffix. Use Decoding strategy on start
Smart 5 to take apart a word to pronounce
and for meaning.
PDF Start Smart 4 print out.
Teacher’s manuel Example Sentences
S 16
Thesaurus
Start Smart 5 Online PDF
Make a word wall using words from Kaffa’s
Discovery (genre, folk tale,
protection,member, argue)
Read Kaffa’s Discovery and discuss
Identifying types of
context clues
.Finding and listing
synonyms both with and
without a thesaurus.
Decode and create
words using word parts.