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							                                                                                  Fourth Grade ELA Pacing Guide
                                                                                    Unit #3: Myths and Legends
                                                                                                                                                        Benchmarks = Bullets $
READING                                                                                                                                                 Grade Level Content Expectations = Bold

     TIMING                  GENRE                                   COMPREHENSION SKILLS, STRATEGIES, TEXT CHARACTERISTICS, AND USING LANGUAGE
                                                                                                               NARRATIVE TEXT

      4 Weeks            Myths/Legends         Text Characteristics

                                                  Explain author’s use of word choice, style, and voice to enhance their message. (VI.8.LE.4)
                                                   - Explain how authors use literary devices including flash forward and flashback to depict time, setting, conflicts, and resolutions that
                                                      enhance the plot and create suspense. (R.NT.04.04)

                                                  Explain relationships among themes, ideas, and characters within and across texts to create a deeper understanding. (VII.9.LE.2, 1)
                                                   - Explain relationships among themes, ideas, and characters within and across texts to create a deeper understanding by comparing
                                                      and contrasting. (R.CM.04.03)

                                                  Identify and explain the defining characteristics of genre. (VI.8.LE.2)

                                                  Describe how various cultures and our common heritages are represented in literature and other texts. (III.5.LE.4)


                                               Comprehension Strategies and Skills Development

                                                  Describe and discuss the shared human experiences depicted in literature and other texts around the world. Examples include birth, death,
                                                   heroism, and love. (III.5.LE.2)
                                                   - Describe the shared human experience depicted in classic, multicultural, and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
                                                      literary merit. (R.NT.04.01)

                                                  Examine a range of written and oral texts from across cultures, time periods, and genre to broaden perspectives. (I.1.LE.1)
                                                   - Apply significant knowledge from grade-level science, social studies, and mathematics texts. (R.CM.04.04)



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     TIMING                  GENRE                                   COMPREHENSION SKILLS, STRATEGIES, TEXT CHARACTERISTICS, AND USING LANGUAGE
                                                  Use a combination of strategies when encountering unfamiliar texts while constructing meaning. Examples include retelling, predicting,
                                                   generating questions, mapping, examining picture cues, analyzing phonetically, and using context and text structure. (V.7.LE.1)
                                                   - Retell through concise summarization grade-level narrative text. (R.CM.04.02)

                                                   Self-monitor comprehension while reading and listening, using a variety of strategies to construct meaning. (V.7.LE.2)

                                                   Discern the overall message or theme of narrative text and the central purpose of expository text. (VII.9.LE.1)
                                                   - Connect personal knowledge, experiences, and understanding of the world to themes and perspectives in text through oral and
                                                      written responses. (R.CM.04.01)

                                                   Connect personal knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world to ideas in text. (VIII.10.LE.1)




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                                                                                  Fourth Grade ELA Pacing Guide
                                                                                    Unit #3: Myths and Legends
                                                                                                                                                         Benchmarks = Bullets $
WRITING                                                                                                                                                  Grade Level Content Expectations = Bold

     TIMING                  GENRE                                               WRITTEN FEATURES, WRITING PROCESS, AND USING LANGUAGE
                                                                                                               NARRATIVE TEXT

      4 Weeks            Myths/Legends         Text Characteristics

                                                  Focus on writing by identifying audience, point of view, and format based on purpose. (I.2.LE.1)
                                                    Write a narrative piece (myth/legend) creating relationships among setting, characters, theme, and plot. (W.GN.04.01)

                                                  Write narrative text, including relevant details to develop plot, characters, and setting. (VI.8.LE.2)
                                                    Identify and describe a variety of narrative genre
                                                       myths and legends. (R.NT.04.02)
                                                    Write a narrative piece (myth/legend) creating relationships among setting, characters, theme, and plot. (W.GN.04.01)

                                                  Write narrative text, such as formal and informal letters using the correct format and mailing protocol. (I.2.LE.2,1)
                                                    Exhibit personal style and voice to enhance the written message in narrative writing
                                                       figurative language. (W.PS.04.01)

                                                  Spell words in context using multiple strategies and resources. (I.2.LE.4)
                                                    Write neat and legible compositions. (W.HW.04.01)


                                               Writing Process

                                                  Recognize and use texts as models and employ varied techniques to construct text, convey meaning, and express feelings to influence an
                                                   audience. Examples include effective introductions and conclusions, different points of view, and rich descriptions. (I.3.LE.7)
                                                    Set a purpose, consider audience, and replicate authors’ styles when writing narrative text. (W.PR.04.01)

                                                  Generate, draft, revise, edit, and publish different forms of written expression. (I.2.LE.3)
                                                    Apply a variety of drafting strategies for narrative text (Venn diagrams) in order to generate, sequence, and structure ideas
                                                      (connecting time, setting, description). (W.PR.04.03)
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     TIMING                  GENRE                                              WRITTEN FEATURES, WRITING PROCESS, AND USING LANGUAGE
                                                    Revise drafts based on constructive and specific oral and written responses to writing by identifying sections of the text to improve
                                                     sequence and flow of ideas
                                                      rearranging paragraphs,
                                                      connecting main and supporting ideas,
                                                      transitions. (W.PR.04.04)

                                                  Spell words in context using multiple strategies and resources. (I.2.LE.4)
                                                    Proofread and edit writing using appropriate resources and grade level appropriate checklists both individually and in groups
                                                       dictionary,
                                                       spell check,
                                                       grammar check,
                                                       grammar references,
                                                       writing references. (W.PR.04.05)

                                                  Organize and analyze information to draw conclusions and implications based on their investigation of an issue or problem. (IX.11.LE.3)

                                                  Employ a wide range of strategies while writing. (V.7.LE.4)


                                               Using Language

                                                  Speak and or read aloud with rhythm tempo, and inflection while varying volume and pitch. (I.3.LE.4)
                                                    Listen to or view critically while demonstrating appropriate social skills of audience behavior in small and large group settings
                                                       eye contact
                                                       attentive,
                                                       supportive. (L.CN. 04.02)

                                                  Describe how features of English, such as language patterns such as spelling, vary over time and from place to place, and how they affect
                                                   meaning in formal and informal situations. An example is exploring regional language variations in the United States. (I.4.LE.2)
                                                    Present in standard American English if it is their first language. (Students whose first language is not English will present in their
                                                       developing version of standard American English.) (S.CN. 04.04)
                                                  Begin to recognize how words and phrases relate to their origin. Examples include surnames and names of bodies of water and landmarks.
                                                   (I.4.LE.3)

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     TIMING                  GENRE                                            WRITTEN FEATURES, WRITING PROCESS, AND USING LANGUAGE
                                                  Identify and use mechanics that enhance and clarify understanding. (VI.8.LE.1)
                                                    In the context of writing, correctly use simple and compound sentences; direct and indirect objects; prepositional phrases;
                                                      adjectives; common and proper nouns as subjects and objects; pronouns as antecedents; regular and irregular verbs; hyphens
                                                      between syllables; apostrophes in contractions; and comas in salutations to set off words; phrases and dialogue; quotation marks or
                                                      italics to identify titles or names. (W.GR.04.01)




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