Grade 4 Lesson Plans
These exemplar lesson plans showcase best practices for English language arts. These lessons are aligned to the Oklahoma Academic Standards and bundle together multiple objectives to showcase the recursive nature of ELA. Each lesson plan includes helpful explanations about the instructional plan and steps. Teachers can review these sample lessons on their own, with a colleague, and/or with their professional learning community, to reflect on the highlighted ELA practices and how they mesh with their own current classroom practices.
Lesson plans are available for each grade featuring texts from the following genres:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Moreover, an exemplar lesson plan sequence regarding Standard 6 research is available for each grade band.
The lesson plans are based on various texts that school districts may or may not include in their curriculum. Teachers should consider their district textbooks and curriculum before implementing any of these lessons in their classrooms. The main purpose of these lesson plans is for teachers to evaluate the structure and strategies present in the lesson and to reflect on their current practice. Teachers could potentially adapt a lesson with a text from their district curriculum.
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Nonfiction
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"The Day It Rained Cats and Dogs"
Students will learn about idioms and their meanings. They will read the passage “The Day it Rained Cats and Dogs,” identifying, discussing, and analyzing the text's idioms. They will practice their understanding of idioms with the book Even More Parts and then illustrate and explain an idiom themselves. |
"Fast Food in Ancient Rome"
Students will learn about text structures. They will read the passage “Fast Food in Ancient Rome,” identifying key information and the text structure used. They will practice organizing important supporting details using a graphic organizer and then use that material to form a clear and concise summary.
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"The Impossibles"
Students will read the poem The Impossibles, learn to identify and use personification and analogies within poetry to convey comparative relationships between words and understand their role in a text.
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"Grades 3-5 Research Lesson"
Students will choose an inventor to research, write an informative text from the information gathered, and present it in a collaborative class timeline.
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