Running head: OBJECTIVE MAPPING FOR FOURTH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS

Objective Mapping for Fourth Grade Language Arts Michael Post Liberty University

OBJECTIVE MAPPING FOR FOURTH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS Objective Mapping for Fourth Grade Language Arts Santa Paula Elementary Schools Glen City

Spiritual Principle: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. (Isaiah 53:2b) Objective: Students will describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. These might include actions, thoughts or words. (RL.4.3) Suggested Activities and Experiences: 1. Assess students knowledge of characters 2. Review characters, settings, compare main and secondary items in stories. 3. Define and discuss descriptive words. What parts of speech are descriptive words frequently? 4. Where do you commonly find these describers in a sentence? Describers may be clues to help find details. 5. Describe a main character from any story. Write down your details in list form. 6. Model how to find evidence in text. On page 54 consider question 14, what does Ali Baba Bernstein learn from the other David Bersteins? Where should I look? Several comments were made by the other Davids and can be found in the story. How did you find them? What did they look like? What clues can be found or implied? (Implied will be used as a definition for students to prepare for inferences in further lessons.) 7. Review your character description, what clues did you use? Are there any more you might have missed? 8. Repeat activity on another day emphasizing settings or events in place of character. 9. Worksheet page 23 in students workbook for story elements. 10. Partner Sharing: Share the attributes of your character without telling the character. Were the clues you gave strong enough to help your partner guess your character? 11. Assess and evaluate progress with teacher created post assessment

Evaluation Procedures: Check student worksheets

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Partner share evaluation-Rate your partners character attributes, 4 best-1 lowest

Quiz: Teacher created, students listen to a page from another story and write down clues Rubric: students read page and identify and write clues found (5+ excellent, 4 good, 3 basic, <3 review and assist. Unit Assessment from McGraw-Hill California Treasures curriculum

Resources: Teachers generated collaboratively rubric Unit assessment booklets Student workbooks Classroom electronic whiteboard Sample of Text Resources: California Treasures. (n.d.). In Common Core State Standards. New York: Macmillian/McGrawHill. California Treasures. (n.d). In Practice Book. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Califronia Treasures. (n.d). In California Progress Monitoring Assessment. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. (2011). TeacherWorks Plus. (Grade 4 version 3.0) [CD-ROM]. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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Spiritual Principle: Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Objectives: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. (RI.4.1) Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research. (W.4.9)

Suggested Activities and Experiences: 1. Test for prior knowledge of literary devices 2. Review details. Discuss evidence, where found, as proof. 3. Literary device explanation-List simile, idioms, metaphors, generalizations, hyperbole, and personifications to explain variety in reading and writing. Emphasize simile and idioms for this objective. 4. Use idiom dictionary to see some of the idioms and their intended meanings. 5. Reread a portion of the story to find details, devices, and evidence. Answer questions that require evidence support, or explanation of a literary device. 6. Determine progress through post-assessment

Evaluation Procedures: Teacher created quiz- matching definitions and literary devices pretest Teacher created quiz-match example with correct literary device Students will create an image using a simile. The image should help define the simile in use. Online quiz: Finish the simile. (Softschools in resources) Unit Assessment from McGraw-Hill California Treasures curriculum Post-test identifying, locating, and defining similes and idioms (teacher created)

Resources: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/similes/quiz3468.html Unit assessment booklets

OBJECTIVE MAPPING FOR FOURTH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS Student workbooks Classroom electronic whiteboard Sample of Text Resources:

California Treasures. (n.d.). In Common Core State Standards. New York: Macmillian/McGrawHill. California Treasures. (n.d). In Practice Book. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Califronia Treasures. (n.d). In California Progress Monitoring Assessment. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. (2011). TeacherWorks Plus. (Grade 4 version 3.0) [CD-ROM]. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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Spiritual Principle: Consider the lilies of the field.(Matthew 6:28)

Objective: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. (RI. 4.2) Apply grade 4 reading standards to informational texts (e.g., Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text). (W.4.9b)

Suggested Activities and Experiences: 1. Look at titles and topic sentences; these should help guide us toward main ideas of a textclass activity and teacher demonstrating- teacher directed 2. Define and demonstrate summary-teacher directed 3. Whiteboard activity with active remotes-small paragraphs to read and then choose the main idea-class and teacher activity 4. Find titles in anthology, predict what the main idea may be, revise prediction as reader skims text-student activity-student activity 5. Choose a main idea and support it with three details-student created 6. Review and consider fact and opinion so we can determine the authors reasons-teacher directed 7. Consider purposes for writing, information, opinion, enjoyment; discuss, compare, and contrast the different styles-whole class discussion 8. Write a main idea paragraph-teacher modeled, student created 9. Partner activity- read partners paragraph, determine main idea and purpose 10. Summarize your partners thoughts and paragraph 11. Technology main ideahttp://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html 12. Technology supporting detailshttp://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/suppoertingdetailsp2.cfm

Evaluation Procedures: Using Active remotes with whiteboard for quick assessment on main ideas-Pretest

OBJECTIVE MAPPING FOR FOURTH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS Teacher created, student rated rubric on main idea paragraph Student created and teacher graded rubric on main idea paragraph Softschools main idea quiz District summary writing assessment Active remote post-test for teacher progress monitoring on main ideas

Resources: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/Resources/Item/39483/main-idea-and-supportingdetails#.UYU6Oezn_IU http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/main_idea/quiz1510.html http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html Unit assessment booklets Student workbooks Classroom electronic whiteboard Sample of Text Resources: California Treasures. (n.d.). In Common Core State Standards. New York: Macmillian/McGrawHill. California Treasures. (n.d). In Practice Book. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Califronia Treasures. (n.d). In California Progress Monitoring Assessment. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. (2011). TeacherWorks Plus. (Grade 4 version 3.0) [CD-ROM]. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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Spiritual Principle: To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1

Objective: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. (RI. 4.5) Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. (W.4.3d) Suggested Activities and Experiences: 1. KWL chart as initial assessment 2. Sequencing events on Quia: http://www.quia.com/pp/1298.html?AP_rand=197288038 3. Emphasis and focus on prefix chrono as referring to time with standard focus on chronological and sequence. 4. Classroom discussion on time words-class participating (listening) 5. Students create a list of time words- student generated (recalling) 6. Students examine text for chronological and sequence terms-student generated 7. Classroom share and take, with a post-it note, either copy a word you missed, or share a word a classmate missed. Add words to your list. 8. Organize list in specific time versus vague time, example year=specific, after=vague 9. Create a sequence or chronological order for your life. In a list form a minimum of nine events. Create sentences with events. Summarize events within a paragraph adding sequential words to connect events. No repetition of chronological terms. Share with a friend. As a partner team, edit and repair life order if necessary. (writing) 10. KWL chart as a final assessment

Evaluation Procedures: KWL pre- and KWL as post-test assessments Writing Rubric for sequence of your life Unit assessments State STAR test

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Resources: Unit assessment booklets Student workbooks Classroom electronic whiteboard

Sample of Text Resources: California Treasures. (n.d). In Practice Book. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Califronia Treasures. (n.d). In California Progress Monitoring Assessment. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. (2011). TeacherWorks Plus. (Grade 4 version 3.0) [CD-ROM]. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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Spiritual Principle: Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Fathers care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Matthew 10:29-30)

Objective: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. (W.4.1

Suggested Activities and Experiences: 1. Write two paragraphs; one supporting and one opposing gum and candy at school, this will be the pre-assessment 2. Review fact and opinion again. Students will respond with fact or opinion to several test statements. 3. Key words for facts and opinions (discuss and list) 4. Linking to reason and detail, (discuss, demonstrate, identify, locate, and create) 5. Compare vague and specific, especially in numbers vague; few, many, some vs. specific; dozen, 115, one, or other quantity 6. Test phrases, reason, information, neither, or both 7. Tools for information and detail 8. Write two paragraphs; one supporting and one opposing uniforms at school, this will be post-assessment

Evaluation Procedures: Treasures Unit assessment District quarterly writing exams Fourth Grade writing test/STAR Pre and post- writing activities

Resources: California rubrics-various districts (http://www.tcoe.org/ERS/CCSS/ELA/CCCSS_Writing_46.pdf) Unit assessment booklets

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Sample of Text Resources: California Treasures. (n.d.). In Common Core State Standards. New York: Macmillian/McGrawHill. California Treasures. (n.d). In Practice Book. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. California Treasures. (n.d). In California Progress Monitoring Assessment. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. (2011). TeacherWorks Plus. (Grade 4 version 3.0) [CD-ROM]. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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