OCT 11 Lesson Planning

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Grade 4 Read/Write

Teacher Facing
October 11, 2024

Unit 2: Contemporary Fiction

Learn about superlative adjectives and complete your work in Quizziz.

For writing you will -

Plan the introduction to your RACECER essay .

"Explain how Sebastian's attitude towards Carlos changes throughout their zoo visit."

In reading you will -

All the lessons and your work today is in this Quizziz.

Open Ended

What are you going to do today in reading and writing?

Today for reading I will write .... and for writing I will learn about .......

Multiple Choice

Click play to listen to a short lesson about SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES.

• CLEAN

• CLEANEST

• CLEANER

Match

Match the superlative adjective to the correct adjective.

• fast

• calm

• dizzy

• fancy

• happy

fastest

calm

dizziest

fanciest

happiest

• fastest

• calm

• dizziest

• fanciest

• happiest

Open Ended

Write a sentence using the adjective kind, the comparative adjective kinder, and the superlative adjective kindest.

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Ⓡ ELA.4.11B.i develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction,

transitions, and a conclusion. OCT11

Unit 2: Contemporary Fiction

LO: SWBAT develop drafts by
organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction.

DOL:

Given a fiction text, students will correctly

develop drafts by organizing with
purposeful structure, including an introduction
in at least 4 of 5 questions.

Multiple Choice

Today you are going to plan your introduction to the prompt "Explain how Sebastion's attitude towards Carlos changes throughout their zoo visit."

Today you will plan because it is the first step of the writing process.

Today you will ...

• draft

• edit

• plan

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draft
(noun)

introduction

(noun)

a rough piece of writing
that needs more work

Academic Vocabulary

central idea

(noun)

the main idea, or what an essay is mostly about.

in a piece of writing, the
opening paragraph(s)

Match

Match the correct Academic Vocabulary to its definition.

• draft

• introduction

• central idea

a rough piece of writing that needs work

the beginning of your writing

what an essay is mostly about

• a rough piece of writing that needs work

• the beginning of your writing

• what an essay is mostly about

Multiple Choice

What is a central idea?

¿Qué significa la palabra idea central?

• A central idea is a rough piece of writing that needs more work

• A central idea is the main idea or what an essay is mostly about

• A central idea is the opening of an essay

Multiple Choice

What is the first step of the writing process?

• revising (correcting)

• planning

• drafting

• editing

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Ⓡ ELA.4.11B.i develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction,

transitions, and a conclusion. OCT11

Unit 2: Contemporary Fiction

HOT Question: Why is it
important to organize your
writing?
There area a bunch of reasons!

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Read the text “To View at the Zoo.” Based on the details in the
text, write a response to the following:

Explain how Sebastian's attitude towards Carlos changes
throughout their zoo visit.

Write a well-organized informational essay that uses specific
evidence from the article to support your answer.

Remember to —

● clearly state your central idea
● organize your writing
● develop your ideas in detail
● use evidence from the selection in your response
● use correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and

grammar

Manage your time carefully so that you can —

● review the selection
● plan your response
● write your response
● revise and edit your response

“Informational Text” Anchor Chart from HMH – used with permission © Houghton

Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Writing
Process

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Ⓡ ELA.4.11B.i develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction,

transitions, and a conclusion. OCT11

Unit 2: Contemporary Fiction

Real World Connection:
You should be organized
with a purpose in all that
you do!

Open Ended

You should plan first when you are going to write.

What is something else that you should plan for? Think of anything.

It is important to plan ...

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Read the text “To View at the Zoo.” Based on the details in
the text, write a response to the following:

Explain how Sebastian's attitude towards Carlos changes
throughout their zoo visit.

Write a well-organized informational essay that uses
specific evidence from the article to support your answer.

Remember to —

● clearly state your central idea
● organize your writing
● develop your ideas in detail
● use evidence from the selection in your response
● use correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and

grammar

Manage your time carefully so that you can —

● review the selection
● plan your response
● write your response
● revise and edit your response

From Planning to
Drafting

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crouched

(verb)

to lower the body
close to the ground
by bending the legs

astonishingly

(adverb)

to fill with great

surprise or
amazement

quarreling

(verb)

to argue or disagree with someone.

Content Vocabulary

Match

Match the correct Content Vocabulary to its definition.

• crouched

• quarelling

• astonishingly

to lower the body close to the ground

to argue or disagree with someone

to fill with great suprise or amazement

• to lower the body close to the ground

• to argue or disagree with someone

• to fill with great suprise or amazement

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To View at

the Zoo

Open Ended

At the beginning of the text Sebastian is ....

Open Ended

Read this part of the text.

Carlos glanced up at the lion, but he quickly returned his attention to the

notebook. Sebastian shook his head. Why would anyone come to a zoo if not

to see the animals? He shrugged and turned back to enjoying the big cats.

Is Sebastian starting to show attitude?

Sebastian is starting to show attitude because in the text it state "...."

Open Ended

How was Sebastian's attitude starting to show in the beginning of the story?

Sebastians attitude in the beginning of the story is ...

Multiple Choice

¿Qué significa la palabra apariencia? Mire la imagen para obtener ayuda.

Click on the picture. Look at the picture - what does appearance mean?

• a. behavior

• b. sounds

• c. look

• d. smell

I know that the central idea of a text

is…
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What is Central Idea?

What do you know
about the central

idea of a text?

Open Ended

What do you know about central idea? I know that central idea of a text ...

¿Qué sabes de la idea central? Sé que una idea central es...

Open Ended

What do you consider most important when writing a central idea?

A. Look for key words in the prompt

B. know the topic of the writing

C. find out how to write the RESTATE and answer in one sentence

D. using clear and simple words

I think that .... is most important when writing a central because ...

Open Ended

How can writers write a clear central idea statement?

Writers can write a clear central idea statement by ...

Multiple Select

What are the clue words in the prompt (question) that give clues about the focus?

Select all that apply. (*hint* there are three)

• explain

• attitude

• changes

• Sebastian

• zoo

Multiple Choice

By the end of the story, Sebastian's attitude towards Carlos has gone from ...

• frustrated to understanding

• supportive to understanding

• understanding to frustrated

• angry to supportive.

Multiple Choice

Does Anthony have a clear central idea so far?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Click on the picture to read and answer the question.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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When writing a central idea statement
writers focus on writing

_________________________________.
their thoughts and opinions

as much as they can about the prompt

direct quotes from the text

concise words to answer the prompt

Multiple Choice

Click on the picture to read and answer the question.

• A

• B

• c

• D

Open Ended

How do you write a clear intrduction?

DOL

You DOL is in Canvas in Reading. Go to Canvas and complete it.

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DOL: Given a fiction
text, students will
correctly develop
drafts by organizing
with purposeful
structure, including
an introduction in at
least 4 of 5
questions.

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