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RL.4.2 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson

RL.4.2 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson preview
RL.4.2 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson preview

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Reading lesson cover labeled Common Core State Standards, Standard RL.4.2, Grade 4, Worksheets and Activities
Cover of the fourth-grade RL.4.2 lesson
RL.4.2 standards page: determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from text details and summarize the text
Reading literature standard for the lesson
Determining Theme directions ask students to find a theme using details from a story, drama, or poem and summarize
Directions for the Determining Theme activity
Pick Me! story, part 1: Eddie is picked last for dodgeball but becomes the only player remaining on his team
Opening page of Andrew Frinkle's Pick Me!
Pick Me! story, part 2: Eddie catches a ball to bring John back into the game, and together they help their team win
Conclusion of the two-page dodgeball story
Determining Theme organizer asks students to identify a theme, supply three pieces of text evidence, and summarize
Theme, text evidence, and summary organizer
Identifying Themes directions: choose a poem, play, or story, complete at least two cloud cards, and share findings
Instructions for the cloud card activity
Theme cloud cards 1–4 ask about characters, special words, how the reading made students feel, and lessons learned
First four of eight theme prompt cards
Theme cloud cards 5–8 ask about changes from beginning to end, surprises, the writer's focus, and the writer's purpose
Remaining four theme prompt cards
Four blank cloud cards for students to create their own questions about a poem, play, or story to explore themes
Blank cards for student-created questions
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Subject

ELA, Reading, Common Core

Grades

Grade 4

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Literacy Readers, Teacher Tools

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This lesson is perfect for fourth grade students who are working on understanding the main idea of a text and supporting details. This is a common core lesson that will help students improve their reading skills.

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Independent and Guided Reading Main Idea Reading Comprehension

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