Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.5
Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.C.1.3.5
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Identify the concluding statement in a narrative reading passage.
- Read a narrative reading text and select the appropriate conclusion from a set of concluding statements provided.
- Read a given narrative reading passage and construct a concluding statement.
- Modify existing concluding sentence in a narrative reading passage to provide additional detail.
- Construct a conclusion to a narrative writing paragraph that supports the events and experiences described in the text.
- Critique the conclusion to a given narrative writing passage and provide detailed notes about the strength of the conclusion with regards to the topic and theme(s) addressed within the writing. Revise the conclusion if necessary.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student reads a given narrative writing text and correctly identifies the concluding statement.
- Student is given a narrative text with a few (at least 3) concluding statements. Student will identify the best conclusion from the list based on the text.
- Student will read a narrative reading passage and construct a concluding statement. This statement should support the events covered in the reading passage.
- Student is given a narrative reading passage that contains a very generic conclusion. Student will identify the conclusion and make modifications to make it stronger, citing events or themes from the text.
- Student writes a narrative paragraph presenting a series of events and including supporting details of such. Student will write a strong conclusion to the paragraph.
- Student will read a given narrative writing piece and critique the conclusion provided. Student will revise the conclusion to make the conclusion stronger by including details found within the text.
