4th Grade: Exploring Nonfiction

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Course Description

Students begin this unit by learning about nonfiction text features. Then, students are presented with primary and secondary sources regarding the Titanic. Students read about the Titanic and gather information through books, apps and articles. Demonstration of knowledge is obtained by creating a nonfiction ePub about the Titanic.

Read with an open mind, write from your heart...
~Mrs.Wildman

CCSS:
  • 4.RI.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happend and why, based onscientific information in the text.
  • 4.RI.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
  • 4.RI.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational text, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
  • 4.W.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
  • 4.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
  • 4.W.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.
  • 4.G4.1 Use a case study or story about migration within or to the United States to identify push and pull factors (why they left, why they came) that influenced the migration.

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