Fourth Grade Common Core Reading Resources

My goal has been to enter Common Core prepared.  I have been so busy over this past 10 months, and it has been enjoyable.  Grade Four Common Core Resources Galore! Nearly all of the standards across the grade levels are COMPLETELY different.  I really wanted to make sure that if I need to cover main idea, point of view, etc. that my students are covering the requirements of the Fourth Grade Common Core Reading Standards.  These are aligned to grade four.  Each document uses wording from the standards and provides specific review.

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Five Weeks Of Daily Common Core Reading Practice

Grade Four Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, & Task Cards Bundle

 

Click Here For Compare Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Click Here For Bundle 1 Worksheets

Click Here For Grade 4 Text Structure Worksheets

Click Here For Common Core Cause and Effect Worksheets

Common Core Activity Cards That TEACH and REVIEW

   

Click Here Grade 4 Text Structure Activity Cards

Click Here Character, Setting, & & Plot Activity Cards

Click Here Grade 4 Compare Genres Activity Cards

Click Here Grade 4 Point of View Activity Cards

Free Sample Box of Grade 4 Common Core Reading Activity Cards

Fourth grade teachers, this Common Core freebie is for you! This free sample contains a variety of Common Core Activity Cards that specifically align to the Grade 4 Common Core Reading Standards.  Most standards are different across grade levels, so one size fits all does not work with Common Core.  The task cards are specifically aligned to the fourth grade standards and even use words from the fourth grade standards too.

These cards are unique because they TEACH and REVIEW.  This is helpful because students can work independently in a small group while you teach other students.  PLUS, the document comes with an easy-fold printable box for storage.  Put away those task card rings!  You won't need them.   I really wanted to make sure that if I need to cover main idea, point of view, compare and contrast, etc. that my students are covering the requirements of the Fourth Grade Common Core Reading Standards. That is why I created these to use with my students.  Try them out this this sampler box of activity cards.  Click Here To Access This Freebie

Printable Boxes of 30 Activity Cards That Teach and Review $4 

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Free Sample Box of Grade 5 Common Core Reading Activity Cards

I am back with a free sample!  After trying my best to store task cards, I have moved on to boxes!  This sample includes a sample of a few cards from my different Grade 5 Common Core Reading Activity Cards and a printable, easy-fold box for storage.  There are several things that make this line of products unique.  

First of all, they TEACH and REVIEW the standards.  This is helpful because as you are working with one group of students, other students can work independently with the activity cards.  Plus, the cards come with a printable, colorful box.  No metal rings, containers, etc. are needed for storage.  Best of all, they are aligned ONLY to the Grade 5 Common Core Standards.  This is EXTREMELY important because standards across grade levels are different.  One size fits all does not work with most of the Common Core Standards.   I really wanted to make sure that if I need to cover main idea, point of view, etc. that my students are covering the requirements of the Fifth Grade Common Core Reading Standards. 

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Common Core Activity Cards That TEACH and REVIEW the Standards

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End of the School Year Fun

We are down to the last few weeks of school.  My goal has been to make sure that we are still learning but in a fun way.  Students are reviewing comprehension by using inference, text structure, text organization, and vocabulary playing cards.  I developed these a month ago (they even come with a printable box).  It's a sneaky way to teach the kiddos and they love it!  

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Read the comment section of this post too!  There, many teachers have also shared resources and strategies that they are using in their classrooms.

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Common Core and Point of View Standards RL.6 and RI.6

It used to be that all students really needed to know about point of view was the difference between first-person and third-person.  All of this has now changed.  In fact, what students need to know about Common Core Standards RL.6 and RI.6 varies across grade levels.

For the first time, fourth graders are introduced to the meaning of firsthand and secondhand account information.  Students must be able to distinguish the difference between the two as well as compare and contrast them.  This is the main focus of informational text standard RI.6.  Although students are introduced to the concept of first-person point of view (only at fourth grade level), they must extend this knowledge and be able to compare and contrast these points of view between different texts.

At fifth grade level, students need to be able to distinguish how a narrator's point of view influences how events are described (RL.6).  For informational text, fifth graders must be able to analyze different accounts of the same event.

Helpful Teaching Tips

• Have students use primary sources of information when they do research.  This gives them a great opportunity to compare different versions of the same events.  
• In small groups, have students discuss which types of resources are most useful in understanding history.  Is a historical diary entry better or would a historical map be more useful?  They can then think about how and why each account of information would differ.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Topical Common Core Point of View Worksheets Aligned to Specific Grade Levels

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Self-Teaching Common Core Point of View Activity Cards (They Come With A Printable Box For Convenient Storage)

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free common core teaching resources point of view

Common Core Interactive Journals: The Middle Ages Part 2

I love using lots of color during note taking.  This is especially helpful when students take notes in their Common Core Interactive Reading journals.  The goal of the note taking today was Common Core Standard RI.1 which  wants students to cite evidence from the text and infer and Standard RI.2 which involved determining the main idea of the text.  After students took notes, I asked them questions to assess comprehension.

During our unit, students "created their own books".  As I explained different aspects about daily life, customs during the Middle Ages, etc., students wrote down what they heard and included diagrams, charts, and other illustrations.  By creating their own books through organized note taking, students are able to apply higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and learn about the Common Core Standards at an even deeper level.

During this activity, students learned about how difficult life was for the peasants.  I found a bucket years ago at a craft store and drilled holes in the sides of it.  The paper represents water.  The peasants paid rent to live on the land of the nobles, and the peasants had to do daily work for them too.  Unfair but true, the peasants had to pay the nobles a fee for EVERYTHING including the ability to get water from the well.  As a result the peasants rationed out their water-at the expense of bathing too!

We acted out this process of water rationing like the peasants.  

This is real wool.  Peasants knitted to create sweaters and made their own cloth from it.  They also made their own cheese.  Students were able to handle these artifacts to make the Common Core thematic unit feel as realistic as possible.

Common Core Interactive Journals: The Middle Ages

For the past month, my students have been learning about life during the Middle Ages.  This is a great way to integrate the Common Core informational text standards into reading.  Honestly, I think that I have been having just as much fun as the students.  

On this day (picture that is above), we learned about the different parts of a manor where the nobles and peasants lived.  Students took colorful notes and created their own diagrams.  This integrated Common Core Standard RI.5 that deals with text features and text organization.  Throughout the unit, students applied what they learned about text features with their own notetaking.

Most of our unit focused on the daily life of peasants.  They worked on the land of the nobles and lived a very difficult life.  Most of the time, kings and queens are the object of attention during units about the Middle Ages and not people in the lower classes of society. Peasants made up 90% of the population during this time period.  Students did role playing and acted out the daily life of peasants by threshing wheat.  Each student was given wheat to thresh (beat) against the desk until grains popped out.  Just like during the Middle Ages, students had to give the noble (me) the pieces of wheat that was collected so that it could be handed to the miller (wheat grinder).

The students were able to see replicas of coins and an authentic coin that would have been used at that time.  The authentic coin is on the far left.

More coming soon....