Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.1G Grade 4 CPI 13

 

Standard: 3.1 Reading

 

Strand: G - Comprehension Skills & Response to Text

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 13 -  The student will read regularly in materials appropriate for their independent reading level.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Upon completing a unit on fairy tales, students prepare to build castles out of Styrofoam™, aluminum foil, etc. To research their castles and structure them authentically, they refer to such books as Castle and See Inside a Cassette.

 

·        Students in this intermediate class are using reading strategies, monitoring their comprehension, posing questions to clarify their developing thoughts, and relaying personal anecdotes triggered by their reading of the text. Working in pairs, the students read a portion of an assigned text and stop every so often to retell what was just read, discuss strategies they used for reading difficult portions, predict what might happen next, share an experience related to what was read, or pose questions they had while reading.