Intro to Context Clues 4th Grade
Meaning of Words and Phrases
Comparing Themes
Compare and Contrast Themes
Summarizing the Main Idea
Summarize a Text's Main Idea
Written vs. Visual Versions of a Story
Compare a Story and Visuals
Intro to Informational Graphics
Graphics to Understand a Text
Explaining What A Story Is All About
Inferences Using Evidence
Making Connections: Similarities & Differences
Compare a Story and Visuals
Comparing Point of View
Different Points of View
Using Textual Evidence
Developing Arguments
Reading Informational Text
Main Ideas and Details
Who Is A Hero?
Inferences and Conclusions
Events, Procedures, and Concepts in Text
Science Texts: Events and Steps
Compare & Contrast Firsthand & Secondhand Accounts
Compare and Contrast Two Views
Interpreting Visuals in a Text: Continental Drift
Graphics to Understand a Text
Comparing Firsthand & Secondhand Events
Compare and Contrast Two Views
Using Evidence To Find Out What Happened & Why
Science Texts: Events and Steps
Making Inferences 4th Grade
Inferences Using Evidence
Types of Literature
Poems, Drama, and Prose
Put Together Ideas to Become an Expert
Be an Expert: Use multiple texts
Analyzing Characters Settings & Events In Stories
Describing Characters
Is there anything more rewarding than listening to your fourth grader give a mini dissertation on a new topic they just read about for the first time? Expertise is born in books!
Most fourth grade-level readers are moving beyond basic consumption of text toward deeper levels of understanding and connection. Students will be developing the ability to infer much more than they have in the past and integrate information from multiple sources to build background knowledge on various subjects. eSpark's fourth grade reading content is focused primarily on Reading Literature and Reading Informational skills, with an emphasis on not just understanding text, but also synthesizing and using the information.
For a more comprehensive look at eSpark's standards-aligned fourth grade reading teaching resources, check out the breakdown of covered domains and the skills students will be working on here:
Some of the skills students will master in eSpark include:
Reading Literature
Reading Informational
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