ELA Grade 4: 1st 9 Weeks

Research Project

W.4.7
Focus research on a question or
topic provided. (S, P)
Formulate appropriate queries and
questions for a topic. (R)

Media Specialist/ Teacher Connection

Using web resources, students research the

questions:
Are all snakes poisonous?
How do you tell if a snake is poisonous?
What are the poisonous snakes in our area of
the United States?

Journeys Text and/or

Exemplary Text Correlation

Dear Mr. Winston

Pebblego.com

Field Guide to Snakes of the

Southwest

Kids Info Bits

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/basicSearch.do?input
FieldValue%280%29=snakes&inputFieldName%280
%29=OQE&method=doSearch&search=SEARCH&search
Type=BasicSearchForm&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=
true&nwf=y&userGroupName=tel_s_tsla&prodId=ITKE

Select appropriate sources to obtain

information. (R)
Gather a variety of information about
a research topic. (S)

W.4.8
Gather information from print
sources (e.g., books, articles). (S)

Use Kids Almanacs from the last few years.

Challenge students to find movies from the
year they were born.

Recall relevant information from

experiences. (S)

Have them gather a list of movies they have

seen in the last few years.

Take notes from various sources of

information (S, P)

Which movie from their list made the most

money?

W.4.9

Discuss the meaning of inferring. Give

examples of inferring how someone is feeling
by watching their behavior.

Draw specific details from a text. (S)

Intro inferring from text using examples of the

vocabulary words used, and the sentences in
which they were found, in the two previous
texts from Journeys series.
Read the book Previously aloud.
Stop and ask questions throughout the story to
help the students figure out what the word
previously means and what were clue
phrases that helped them figure out the
meaning.

Web Resources

Coming Distractions: Questioning

Movies
How Do They Do That?
Genre: Informational Text
Steven Spielberg: A Filmmakers
Journey

Dear Mr. Winston

Coming Distractions: Questioning
Movies