4th Grade Reading Units

Unit 1:Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story

·       How do readers identify a character’s motivation?

·       How do readers analyze and identify an author’s purpose?

·       How do readers develop theories about characters?

·       How do readers interpret the big ideas presented in story?

Unit 2: Reading the Weather, Reading the World: Purposeful Reading of Nonfiction
 
·       How do readers use text support features to understand a nonfiction text?

·       How do readers analyze and identify an author’s purpose?

·       How do readers use context clues to define higher-level vocabulary?

·       How do readers use details to support the main idea of a text?

·       How do readers deepen their expertise on a topic?

·       How do readers analyze information to ensure it is relevant to a topic? 

Unit 3: Detail Synthesis

Unit 4: Reading History: The American Revolution

·       How do readers identify the structure of a text?

·       How can we build upon our knowledge of a topic?

·       How does identify a text’s structure help us to fully understand the information within the text?

·       How do researchers use and present information to help inform us, as readers?

·       How can we use our research to debate our point of view on a topic?

Unit 5: Test Preparation
   
Unit 6: Historical Fiction Clubs

·       How do readers analyze the setting of a story?

·       How do readers track story elements while reading?

·       How do readers develop interpretations about a book?

·       How do readers use historical fiction books to aide in their research?
 
Unit 7:  Power and Perspective Book Clubs

·       How can I heighten my skills at interpretation so I see themes that thread through a text and that sometimes thread across many texts? 

·       How can I think about ways that different authors approach the same theme?