It has been a hectic couple of months with school delays and cancellations and trying to teach the standards effectively before the AIR tests in early April!
We just finished studying the elements of poetry and compared it to drama and prose. Now, we are looking at determining theme in drama, poetry, and prose, and being able to summarize any one of those while including the theme in the summaries. Students have been reading various literature, thinking about the lesson/message it is trying to teach the reader, writing stories with various themes, and looking at different media that have common themes.
One activity students did was read Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna, a poem entitled "What I See", and studied a painting by Normal Rockwell called "The Gossips." Students tried to determine the common theme among all three of them which was that rumors can hurt others.
We just finished studying the elements of poetry and compared it to drama and prose. Now, we are looking at determining theme in drama, poetry, and prose, and being able to summarize any one of those while including the theme in the summaries. Students have been reading various literature, thinking about the lesson/message it is trying to teach the reader, writing stories with various themes, and looking at different media that have common themes.
One activity students did was read Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna, a poem entitled "What I See", and studied a painting by Normal Rockwell called "The Gossips." Students tried to determine the common theme among all three of them which was that rumors can hurt others.
If you are looking for books with a specific reading level and/or topic, you can go to the site Book Adventure. There you can enter the level of book your child is reading at and any genre/topic that he/she may be interested in, and it will assist you in giving a list of possible books to read. Check it out!
http://www.bookadventure.com/home.aspx
http://www.bookadventure.com/home.aspx
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Check out the ELA standards checklist for fourth grade so that students can understand! This is courtesy of www.curriculumcorner.com.
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