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Uintah School District Weekly Lesson Plans

Week 1

CORE Curriculum Language Arts Standards

CORE Curriculum Area Standards

New Standards:

Health Social Studies Science

RL.4.2: Determine theme (using story format)

RI.4.1:Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly

RF.4.3:Grade level Phonics

W.4.2(a):Introduce a topic (6 traits and writing process)

SL.4.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions

SL.4.1(b):Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.

L.4.4(a):Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Vocabulary/Word Work:

environment, region, geology, organisms, elevation

Student Objectives:

Participate in group discussions

STUDENT NEEDS ADDRESSED:

Focus Student(s)

Specific Instructional Needs

HOW INSTRUCTION WILL BE DELIVERED

Read Aloud

(Find similarities and differences in story characters, and how they change over the course of a story.)

Shared Reading

Guided Reading/Book Club/ Reciprocal Teaching

Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Literacy Centers

Independent Reading/Independent Writing

Monday

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Judy Blume)

(RL.4.2)

USOE: Teacher Resource Book (TRB)

Utah, a great place to live:

http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/core/4th/TRB4/literacy5.pdf (RI.4.1)

Reading Pre-assessment for student group placement.

Center Procedures

Classroom Procedures/Rules (RF.4.3)

USOE: Teacher Resource Book (TRB)


http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/core/4th/TRB4/literacy5.pdf (RI.4.1)

Cooperative Learning:

Talk with a partner about a family member and share your ideas for writing. (SL.4.1)

Write a short story about a family member. (writing pre-assessment)

(SL.4.1, W.4.2)

Tuesday

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Judy Blume) (RL.4.2)

USOE: Teacher Resource Book


(RI.4.1)


Center Procedures

Classroom Procedures/Rules

(RF.4.3)



Pull out vocabulary

(RI.4.1, L.4.4)


Share the writing with group.

(SL.4.1)

6-Traits Jigsaw

6-Traits Instruction using:

Rigbys Writers Handbook: Pg. 32 & 33

Rigbys Reading and Writing Transparencies: Transparency 10

(W.4.2(a))

Wednesday


Utah Adventure Book: Ch. 1

Utah Studies Weekly: Week 2

(RI.4.1)


Center Procedures


(RF.4.3)


Teacher Resource Book

Pull out vocabulary

(RI.4.1, L.4.4)


6-Traits Jigsaw

6-Traits Instruction

(W.4.2(a))

Thursday




(RI.4.1)


Center Procedures


(RF.4.3)


Pull out vocabulary

(RI.4.1, L.4.4)


6-Traits Jigsaw

6-Traits Instruction

(W.4.2(a))

Friday




(RI.4.1)


Center Procedures


(RF.4.3)

Week 2



New Standards:


RL.4.2:Determine theme details to summarize (using story format)

RI.4.1:Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly

RF.4.3:Grade Level Phonics






adaptation, characteristics, classification, diverse, species

Affixes: tion, ics, es,

Spelling Changes: y to i, e-drop

Student Objectives:

Write a variety of responses to stories and poems.


Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

(Find similarities and differences in story characters, and how they change over the course of a story.)

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Literacy Centers


Monday


The Desert is Theirs by Byrd Baylor

(Details and Summarize) (Explicit)

(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)

USOE: Teacher Resource Book (TRB)Dazzling Deserts (Pg.12.1.7)

http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/core/4th/TRB4/literacy5.pdf

(RI.4.1)

Assessments and Procedures

Desert Anchor IAW

6-Traits: Sentence Fluency and Organization (Paragraph)

(W.4.2(a), (RF.4.3)

Wildlife Review: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources: Utahs Desert Dwellers

Natures Call, The Amazing Mohave Compare and contrast hot and cold deserts

http://wildlife.utah.gov/education/magazine/diversity_i.pdf (L.4.4 (a), W.4.2(a))

Buddy Reading Procedures using Utah Studies Weekly Week 3 (Utah Question)

Write a Bio Poem about self using the Writing Process. (IAW) (W.4.2(a))

Tuesday


Desert Voices by Byrd Baylor


(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)


Dazzling Deserts (Pg.12.1.7)

(RI.4.1)


Desert Anchor IAW


(W.4.2(a), (RF.4.3)


Natures Call, The Amazing Mohave Compare and contrast hot and cold deserts (L.4.4 (a), W.4.2(a))



Wednesday



(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)



(RI.4.1)


Desert Anchor IAW


(W.4.2(a), (RF.4.3)





Thursday



(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)



(RI.4.1)


Desert Anchor IAW


(W.4.2(a), (RF.4.3)





Friday



(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)



(RI.4.1)


Desert Anchor IAW


(W.4.2(a), (RF.4.3)





Week 3



New Standards:


RL.4.2: Determine theme details to summarize (Story Assessment)

RI.4.1:Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and also drawing inferences


RF.4.3(a):Word analysis





assessments:

RL.4.2 Students will read: The Superstition mountains from rigby pg. 136

Weekly Vocabulary/Word Work:

plateau, basin, atlas, compare, contrast

Student Objectives:

Read and discuss a variety of fiction and nonfiction about Utah deserts


Focus Student(s)


write a bio-poem (i.e., a biography in poem form) about him/herself


Read Aloud

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Literacy Centers


Monday

One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George

Creatures of the Desert World by Barbara Gibson (Summarize and draw inferences)

(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)

UTAH Atlas: Geography and History by Cliff B. Craig and M. Elijah Carr

Utah Adventure Book: Ch. 1 (Pg. 8-9)

Utah Studies Weekly, Week 4

(RF.4.3, RF.4.3(a))

See suggestions in Unit Plan

3 Regions of Utah Anchor IAW (Labeled Map) (SL.4.1, RF.4.3)

Use Utah studies Weekly 4, Utah Adventure Book, or Utah History To Go. http://historytogo.utah.gov/lessons/theland.html to IAE about Lake Bonneville. (L.4.4a, RI..4.1)

Use appropriate literacy activities.


Tuesday


Creatures of the Desert World by Barbara Gibson

(Summarize and draw inferences)

(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)




(RF.4.3, RF.4.3(a))

3 Regions of Utah Anchor IAW (Labeled Map)

(SL.4.1, RF.4.3)

Use Utah studies Weekly 4, Utah Adventure Book, or Utah History To Go to IAE about Lake Bonneville. (L.4.4a, RI..4.1)



Wednesday


Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson


(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)




(RF.4.3, RF.4.3(a))





Thursday


Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson (Summarize and draw inferences)

(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)




(RF.4.3, RF.4.3(a))





Friday



(RL.4.2, RI.4.1)




(RF.4.3, RF.4.3(a))





Week 4



New Standards:


RL.4.2: Determine theme, details to summarize (Poetry)

RI.4.1: Compare and contrast inferential/explicit details



W.4.2:Model Paragraph Writing (Topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence)





line, stanza, verse, rhyme, alliteration

migration, aquatic, anaerobic, amphibian, reptile

Nifty Thrifty Fifty (study of word analysis)

get words at: http://teachers.net/4blocks/frazierNiftyThriftyFifty.pdf

Instructions at: http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/Leadership%202007/MbM%20Phonics%20for%204th%20and%205th%20grade%202007%20A&K.pdf

Student Objectives:


Write a variety of responses to stories and poems.

Find similarities and differences in frogs and toads


Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Cooperative Learning


Monday

What are Wetlands? A Bobbie Kalman Book

Wetlands: Soggy Habitat by Laura Purdie Salas

(RI 4.1)

Utahs Amazing Amphibians

http://wildlife.utah.gov/education/newsletter_archive.html

(RI.4.1, RF.4.3(a), L.4.4(a))

Utah Studies Weekly 5 Horned Toad Article (RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))

USOE Teacher Resource Book

Wonderful Wetlands

Compare/Contrast frogs and toads in a paragraph. Use the following resource:

http://coreacademy.usu.edu/Materials/2005/Handbooks/FourthGrade.pdf (Starting at Pg. 5-11)

(RI 4.1, RF.4.3, RF.4.3.(2))

Use Utahs Wetlands to model how to write a summary paragraph using the word bank.

http://wildlife.utah.gov/education/newsletters/95spring-gw.pdf

(Pg. 2)

(RI.4.1, W.4.2)

Cooperative groups will read and discuss one Utah wetland to animal research information for paragraph writing.

A good website to use is: http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Write a paragraph about a wetland animal.

(Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Tuesday

Near One Cattail by Anthony D. Fredricks

(RI.4.1)

Utahs Amazing Amphibians

(RI.4.1, RF.4.3(a), L.4.4(a))

Compare/Contrast frogs and toads in a paragraph.

(RI 4.1, RF.4.3, RF.4.3.(2))



(Pg. 2)

(RI.4.1, W.4.2)

Cooperative groups will read and discuss one Utah wetland to animal research information for paragraph writing.


(Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Wednesday

Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs by Douglas Florian

(RI 4.1)

Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

(RI.4.1, RF.4.3(a), L.4.4(a),RL.4.2)


(RI 4.1, RF.4.3, RF.4.3.(2))



(Pg. 2)

(RI.4.1, W.4.2)


(Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Thursday


(RI 4.1)


(RI.4.1, RF.4.3(a), L.4.4(a),RL.4.2)


(RI 4.1, RF.4.3, RF.4.3.(2))



(Pg. 2)

(RI.4.1, W.4.2)


(Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Friday

Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian

(RI 4.1)

Joyful Noise by Paul Fleis(RI.4.1, RF.4.3(a), L.4.4(a),RL.4.2)chman


(RI 4.1, RF.4.3, RF.4.3.(2))



(Pg. 2)

(RI.4.1, W.4.2)


(Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Week 5



New Standards:


RL.4.2:Determine Important details to summarize (Poetry)

RI.4.1:Inference/Explicit (riddles)



W.4.2: Paragraph Writing continued


SL.4.1(a):Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material




vertabrate, invertabrate, metamorphosis, omnivore herbivore, carnivore

Nifty Thrifty Fifty

Student Objectives:

Participate in group discussion

Read and discuss a variety of fiction and nonfiction about


Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Cooperative Learning Activity


Monday

Butternut Hollow Pond

Americas Wetland-a Guide to Plants/Animals by Marianne D. Wallace

(RI.4.1)

There Once was a Daisy http://www.nps.gov/glac/forteachers/daisy-chain.htm

Vertebrate or Invertebrate-Whats My ID? Rigby SB1 p.86

(RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))

Obis Pond Guide by Delta Edu. Inc.


Write wetland animal riddles using the IAE wordbank

(RF.4.3, RI.4.1, W.4.2)

Utahs Amazing Amphibians Natures Call, ribbit, ribbit http://wildlife.utah.gov/education/newsletter_archive.html

Select words for animal riddles.

(RI. 4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.4(a))

Students come to discussion prepared, having read the required material. Locate three facts about their assigned reptile.

Resource: Utahs Amazing Amphibians

(SL.4.1(a))

(Paragraph writing cont)

Write a paragraph on an amphibian. (Use MIRA strategy)

(W.4.2)

Tuesday

Wetlands Journey Nat. Geo ML

(RI.4.1)

There Once was a Daisy


(RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))


(RF.4.3, RI.4.1, W.4.2)

Utahs Amazing Amphibians Natures Call, ribbit, ribbit


(RI. 4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.4(a))

Students come to discussion prepared, having read the required material. Locate three facts about their assigned reptile.

Resource: Utahs Amazing Amphibians

(SL.4.1(a)



(W.4.2)

Wednesday


(RI.4.1)



(RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))


(RF.4.3, RI.4.1, W.4.2)



(RI. 4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.4(a))



(W.4.2)

Thursday


(RI.4.1)



(RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))


(RF.4.3, RI.4.1, W.4.2)



(RI. 4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.4(a))



(W.4.2)

Friday


(RI.4.1)



(RL.4.2 ,RF 4.3(a))


(RF.4.3, RI.4.1, W.4.2)



(RI. 4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.4(a))



(W.4.2)

Week 6



New Standards:


RL.4.2:Determine Important details to summarize (Poetry Assessment)

RI.4.1:Inference/explicit details



W.4.2:Begin multi-paragraph writing assessment


SL.4.1(a):Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material



Assessments:

Ode to the Giant Redwood SB1 p. 116 Identify the theme and summarize


deciduous, coniferous, evergreen, hibernation, insulation

Nifty Thrifty Fifty

Student Objectives:

Find similarities and differences in story characters, and how they change over the course of a story.



Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Cooperative Learning


Monday

Option of:

Hatchet by Gary Poulson

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Spear

Charlies Raven by Jean Craighead George

(RL 4.2)

TRB Fantastic Forest. pp. 12.1.5 6

(RI 4.1)


A forest anchor piece (RF.4.3)

Natures Call about ungulates (fall 1997 article about hoofed animals) http://wildlife.utah.gov/education/newsletter_archive.html

(RI.4.1)

Recite Poetry to Classmates.

Resources:



Mammalabilia by Douglas Florian


Multi Paragraph assessment Writing

I Spy a Utah Animal (3 week project) Narrowing the topic (W.4.2)

Tuesday

Option of:





A forest anchor piece

Natures Call about ungulates (fall 1997 article about hoofed animals)


Selecting and Narrowing the topic

(W.4.2)

Wednesday

Option of:








Research and

Prewrite

Thursday

Option of:








Research and Prewrite

Friday

Option of:








Week 7



New Standards:


RL.4.2:Summative Assessments Poem and Story

RI.4.1:Infer/Explicit details



W.4.2:Continue multi-paragraph assessment



native, non-native, indigenous, mammals, fish, arthropods, cold-blooded, warm-blooded

Student Objectives:



Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

(

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Learning Centers


Monday

Continue the book you were reading last week.

Natures Call Spring 96, Utahs Mountains



Dichotomous key to identify trees (SR)

IAW: How to read a dichotomous key

Natures Call Winter 92, Utahs Black Bears


Use appropriate center activities

I Spy writing cont.

Student Rubric Development

Rough Drafts

Tuesday







Rough Drafts

Wednesday







Rough Drafts

Thursday







Rough Drafts

Revising

Friday







Rough Drafts

Revising

Week 8



New Standards:


RL.4.2:Determine Important details to summarize (Drama)

RI.4.1: Summative Assessment



W.4.2:Finish multi-paragraph assessment


Assessments:

McGraw-Hill Science book Pg. 36-37. Give test (RI.4.1)

Vocabulary/Word Work

Endangered, threatened, predator, prey, conservation

Nifty Thrifty Fifty

Student Objectives:

Recite poetry for classmates.



Focus Student(s)



Read Aloud

Shared Reading


Interactive Writing

Interactive Editing

Literacy Centers


Monday

Continue chapter book from the previous week.

Utah Adventure pg. 18 Map of Endangered Species


Venn Diagram

Compare all 3 Utah Environments

Using the word bank of the Black-Footed Ferret, write an Ode to the Ferret or some song parody

http://wildlife.utah.gov/publications/pdf/2010_black-footed_ferret.pdf

I Spy cont

Student Editing

Teacher Editing

Tuesday


Growing Wild

Winter 1994

Extinction, Its a Matter of Life

Venn Diagram


Black-Footed Ferret

Student Editing

Teacher Editing

Wednesday


Growing Wild

Winter 1994


Venn Diagram


Black-Footed Ferret

Publishing I Spy

Thursday


Growing Wild

Winter 1994


Venn Diagram


Black-Footed Ferret

Publishing I Spy

Friday


Growing Wild

Winter 1994


Venn Diagram


Black-Footed Ferret

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