DEKALB
COUNTY SCHOOLS FOURTH GRADE READING STREET 2010-11 LONG RANGE PLANS
Date
Main Selection
Genre
8-15
Because of Winn-Dixie
Realistic Fiction
1.2
8-22
Lewis and Clark and
Me
Historical Fantasy
1.3
8-29
Grandfather’s Journey
Historical Fiction
Unit
1.1
1.4
9-6
1.5
9-12
9-19
The Horned Toad
Prince
Modern Fairy Tale
Letters Home from
Yosemite
Narrative Nonfiction
Unit 1 Review
2.1
9-26
What Jo Did
Fiction
2.2
10-3
Coyote School News
Historical Fiction
2.3
10-10
2.4
10-17
2.5
10-24
Grace and the Time
Machine
Play
Marven of the Great
North Woods
Biography
So You Want to Be
President?
Expository Nonfiction
Developed by Debbie Slocum 2007
Literacy Specialist Byron-Bergen Schools
Skill/Strategy
Grammar
Writing
Spelling
Sequence
Summarize
Word Structure
Author’s Purpose
Answer Questions
Word Structure
Sequence
Graphic Organizer
Glossary/Dictionary
Author’s Purpose
Story Structure
Context Clues
Main Idea
Graphic Organizers
Word Structure
Declarative &
Interrogative
Sentences
Imperative &
Exclamatory
Sentences
Narrative
Prewriting
Short vowels VCCV
Narrative
Drafting
Long a and i
Subjects and
Predicates
Narrative
Revising
Long e and o
Compound
Sentences
Narrative
Editing
Long e
Clauses and
Complex
Sentences
Narrative
Publishing
Long u sounds
Common and
Proper Nouns
How-to Report
Prewriting
Adding –s and -es
Regular Plural
Nouns
How-to Report
Drafting
Irregular Plurals
Irregular Plural
Nouns
How-to Report
Revising
Words with ar, or
How-to Report
Editing
Consonant Pairs
ng, nk, ph, wh
How-to Report
Publishing
Words with
ear, ir, our, ur
Cause and Effect
Prior Knowledge
Word Structure
Draw Conclusions
Prior Knowledge
Dictionary/Glossary
Draw Conclusions
Answer Questions
Word Structure
Fact and Opinion
Monitor and Fix Up
Dictionary/Glossary
Main Idea
Summarize
Dictionary/Glossary
Singular
Possessive
Nouns
Plural
Possessive
Nouns
10-31
Unit
Date
Unit 2 Review
Main Selection
Genre
3.1
11-07
The Stranger
Fantasy
3.2
11-14
Adelina’s Whales
Photo Essay
11-28
How Night Came From
the Sea
Porquoi Tale
3.4
12-5
Eye of the Storm
Expository Nonfiction
3.5
12-12
The Great Kapok Tree
Fantasy
3.3
12-19
The Houdini Box
Historical Fiction
4.2
1-09
Encantado: Pink
Dolphin of the Amazon
Expository Nonfiction
4.3
1-17
The King in the Kitchen
Play
4.4
1-23
Cause/Effect
Ask Questions
Context Clues
Fact and Opinion
Graphic Organizers
Context Clues
Generalize
Visualize
Context Clues
Graphic Sources
Predict
Word Structure
Generalize
Story Structure
Word Structure
Grammar
Action & Linking
Verbs
Main & Helping
Verbs
Subject-Verb
Agreement
Present, Past,
and Future
Tenses
Irregular Verbs
Writing
Compare/Contras
t
Prewriting
Compare/Contras
t
Drafting
Compare/Contras
t
Revising
Compare/Contras
t
Editing
Compare/Contras
t
Publishing
Spelling
Adding
–ed and -ing
Homophones
Vowel Sound in
shout
Compound Words
Possessives
Unit 3 Review
1-3
4.1
Skill/Strategy
Seeker of Knowledge
Biography
Developed by Debbie Slocum 2007
Literacy Specialist Byron-Bergen Schools
Compare and Contrast
Predict
Context Clues
Compare and Contrast
Visualize
Context Clues
Character and Setting
Monitor and Fix Up
Dictionary/Glossary
Graphic Sources
Ask Questions
Word Structure
Singular and
Plural Pronouns
Story
Prewriting
Contractions
Subject and
Object
Pronouns
Story
Drafting
Final le, al en
Pronouns and
Antecedents
Story
Revising
Final er, ar
Possessive
Pronouns
Story
Editing
Consonants
/j/, /ks/, /kw/
4.5
Unit
5.1
5.2
1-30
Encyclopedia Brown
Realistic Fiction
2-6
Unit 4 Review
Main Selection
Genre
Sailing Home: A Story
of a Childhood at Sea
Historical Fiction
Lost City: The
Discovery of Machu
Picchu
Narrative Nonfiction
Amelia and Eleanor Go
For a Ride
Historical Fiction
Date
2-13
2-21
5.3
3-5
5.4
3-12
5.5
3-19
Moonwalk
Science Fiction
3-19
Unit Test
4-2
My Brother Martin
Biography
6.1
4-2
4-(9-20
6.2
4-23
Antarctic Journal
Journal
ARMT/SAT Review
ARMT/SAT
Jim Thorpe’s Bright
Path
Biography
Developed by Debbie Slocum 2007
Literacy Specialist Byron-Bergen Schools
Plot
Prior Knowledge
Context Clues
Contractions
and Negatives
Story
Publishing
Prefixes
un-, dis-, in-
Skill/Strategy
Grammar
Writing
Spelling
Author’s Purpose
Predict
Context Clues
Adjectives and
Articles
Persuasive
Prewriting
Multisyllabic Words
Compare and Contrast
Visualize
Word Structure
Comparative &
Superlative
Adjectives
Persuasive
Drafting
Syllable Patterns
V/CV and VC/V
Adverbs
Persuasive
Revising
Greek Word Parts
Persuasive
Editing
Words with Latin
Roots
Persuasive
Publishing
Related Words
Conjunctions
Research
Report
Prewriting
Schwa
Capitalization
Research
Report
Drafting
Prefixes
mis-, non-, re-
Sequence
Story Structure
Context Clues
Main Idea
Text Structure
Word Structure
Draw Conclusions
Monitor and Fix-up
Context Clues
Cause and Effect
Answer Questions
Word Structure
Fact and Opinion
Text Structure
Dictionary/Glossary
Comparative &
Superlative
Adverbs
Prepositions &
Prepositional
Phrases
6.3
6.4
6.5
EOY
How Tia Lola Came to
Stay
4-30
Realistic Fiction
To Fly: Story of the
Wright Brothers
5-7
Biography
The Man Who Went to
the Far Side of the
5-14
Moon
Narrative Nonfiction
TEST Online
Developed by Debbie Slocum 2007
Literacy Specialist Byron-Bergen Schools
Character and Theme
Summarize
Context Clues
Generalize
Ask Questions
Context Clues
Graphic Sources
Monitor and Fix Up
Context Clues
Commas
Quotations and
Quotation Marks
Titles
Research
Report
Revising
Research
Report
Editing
Research
Report
Publishing
Suffixes
-less, -ment, -ness
Suffixes
-ful, -ly, -ion
Words with Silent
Consonants