Grade 04 ELA - EC: E04.D.1.1.1

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

E04.D.1.1.1 E04.D.1.1.1

Use relative pronouns (e.g., who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (e.g., where, when, why).

Activities

Define relative pronouns and relative adverbs.
Identify relative pronouns and/or relative adverbs in a given set of sentences.

Use context clues to distinguish between examples and non-examples of relative adverbs and relative pronouns in a sentence.
Classify a set of sentences as either having relative pronouns or relative adverbs.

Construct a sentence using a relative pronoun.
Construct a sentence using a relative adverb.

Answer Key/Rubric

The student will provide a standard definition for both relative pronouns and relative adverbs. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
1. Relative adverbs – introduces a group of words or clause that tells more about a noun, including information about when, where, or why the noun occurs.
2. Relative pronouns – introduces a group of words that describes a noun, giving more information about it.

The student will correctly mark the relative pronoun and/or adverb in each sentence in a given set. The set should include a variety of different examples of each.

The student will determine whether a sentence contains a relative pronoun, a relative adverb, or neither based on context clues. Ensure that each category is represented in the set of sentences, and include several different examples of relative pronouns and relative adjectives.

Given a set of sentences that each contains either a relative pronoun or a relative adverb, the student will sort the sentences into those categories. You may wish to provide students with a list of common relative pronouns (that, which, who, whom, whose) and relative adverbs (where, when, why) to assist them in sorting.

The student will correctly construct a novel sentence containing a relative pronoun. Common errors include not using a comma with the relative pronoun “which” and using a comma with the other relative pronouns.
The student will correctly construct a novel sentence containing a relative adverb. Common errors include using a relative pronoun plus a preposition instead of a relative adverb.