Course: Copy of 4th Grade Textual Analysis

This unit includes the foundational steps of TA at fourth grade including pre-reading a text, identifying genre, scanning questions, finding evidence, and answering questions.

This is a unit focused on defining, evaluating and choosing relevant details versus irrelevant details.

This mini main idea unit folds in the skill of main idea of one paragraph and finding multiple relevant details as supporting evidence.

This unit focuses on practicing finding multiple pieces of evidence, finding a common theme within the evidence, writing one sentence that synthesizes the info in the evidence, choosing and adding strong details with explanations and finally writing a conclusion sentence for a one part WRT.

This unit uses LASSO - looks like, acts like, says, others say - to analyze how character's feel and their personality traits.

This unit includes lessons for habits of a good listener, habits of a good note-taker and a rubric for scholars to use to evaluate themselves.

This is an extended unit that develops scholar skills on answering an extended essay with one text. This includes multiple steps from finding evidence, analyzing a question, using a checklist of bullet points and writing a multi- paragraph essay to a literary response question.

This unit focuses on how to apply information from two texts to a literary response question. Included in the unit are lessons on how to write opinion type literary responses.