HAZLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
DISTRICT UNIT/LESSON PLAN
Teacher Name : Teresa Pollock
Grade Level (s): 4th
Building : HEMS
Subject :Reading Language Arts
Start Date(s):9-15-2014
DAILY PLAN
Unit Plan
Unit Title: Think It Through
Essential Questions: How Do Your Actions Affect Others?
Standards: PA Core Standards, PA Academic Standards/Anchors (based on subject)
RL.4.1 – Making Predictions
RL.4.3 – Problem/Solutions
RL.4.10 – Realistic Fiction
L.4.5b – Idioms
L.3.1i – Subjects/Predicates
Summative Unit Assessment :
Summative Assessment Objective
Students will read several texts and be able to identify the genre as being
Realistic Fiction. They will also be able to state the characters, setting ,
problem, solution and several events in a text.
Assessment Method (check one)
____ Rubric ___ Checklist __+__ Unit Test ____ Group
____ Student Self-Assessment
____ Other (explain)
Objective (s)
Students will build background on
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Activities / Teaching Strategies
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“thinking of Others”
The students will listen and
respond to an interactive read
aloud entitled “Say Something”
Preview the genre of Realistic
Fiction and make predictions
Introduce vocabulary words
Students will read together and
discuss “The Talent Show”
Students will be able to make
predictions from a short passage.
Students will be able to identify
the problem and solution in a
passage.
Students will be able to tell the
characteristics of a Realistic Fiction
passage.
Students will be able to identify
several idioms and tell what they
actually mean.
Students will be able to identify
new vocabulary and synonyms
that go with vocabulary.
Students will be able to identify
what an idiom is and be able to tell
the meaning of some.
Students will read aloud together a
story and fill in a graphic organizer.
Students will be understand the
difference between the subject
and the predicate in a story.-
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Students will write lower case
letters in cursive
Students will be able to give
synonyms for the weeks
vocabulary words.
Students will read together a
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Grouping
Day
Materials / Resources
Assessment of Objective (s)
Formative-Oral Responses
Introduce Essential question…”How Do Actions Affect
Others?’
Show video
Collaborative Conversations and share
Read aloud and discuss “Say Something”
Introduce the genre Realistic Fiction and discuss
Introduce vocabulary and write sentences for Practice
Book pg. 11
Close read “The Talent Show”
Definitions and pretest for new Spelling Words
Introduce subjects and predicates.
Review the new vocabulary words and their synonms.
Discuss Comprehension strategies making predictions
and problem and solution and relate these to “The
Talent Show” and “The Cyber Bully”.
Discuss the characteristics of Realistic Fiction and talk
about other stories in this genre.
Review synonyms with Your Turn practice book pg 7
Quiz on synonyms
Introduce subjects/predicates
Review new vocabulary by showing the pictures, giving
definitions and reading two sentences that contain the
words.
Introduce idioms and tell what they are and share
several.
Students will close read aloud together “Experts
Incorporated” and fill in a graphic organizer including
characters ,settings, problem, solution and effects.
Students will read Cyber Bully and answer questions in
practice book dealing with problem and solution.
Review subjects and predicates in sentences.
Review vocabulary by giving synonyms for the
vocabulary words.
Close read “Speaking Out to Stop Bullying” and discuss
story structure.
Spelling by completing sentences and matching
definitions.
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Video from Unit 1 week 2
Vocabulary cards
Reading Writing Workshop
Your Turn Practice Book
Teacher’s Manuel
Summative- Practice book page
Student Self - Assessment-
Vocabulary cards
Reading Writing Workshop
Your Turn Practice Book
Made up Quiz on synonyms
List of many idioms to share
Formative-Teacher observation
Vocabulary Cards
Extra idioms paper
Your Turn Practice Book
Reading Anthology
Formative-Peer/Self Assessments
Summative- synonym quiz
Student Self - Assessment-
Summative- Practice Book pages
Student Self - Assessment-
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Vocabulary Cards
Reading Anthology
Spelling pg. # 10
English pg. # 7
Handwriting Paper for lower case
letters
Formative-Oral Responses
Summative- Spelling and English
worksheet
passage and will be able to point
out characters, setting, problem,
events and solution.
Students will be able to fill in
sentences with their spelling
words.
Students will be able to decide
between compounds subjects and
and compound predicates.
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Students will work in groups to
compare information they have
learned-about how actions affect
others by comparing the three
selections we have read this week.
Sing text evidence the students
will analyze how well the author
used details to develop characters
and events in a story.
Students will do well on a
vocabulary and comprehension
assessment.
Students will do well on a spelling
test of this weeks words.
Introduce compound subjects and compound
predicates.
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Read aloud
Work in groups to compare and analyze
Assess vocabulary and comprehension
Assess spelling words
Review subject/predicate
Student Self - Assessment-
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Assessment tests
Formative-Teacher observation
Summative- Assessment tests
Student Self - Assessment-