- Reading Scientific Text: Reading Closely about an Chosen Animal
- Science Talk: Synthesizing What We Know about Our Researched Animal
- Setting a Purpose for Writing: Creating a Rubric for Informative Paragraphs
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- I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1)
- I can make inferences using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1)
- I can determine the main idea using specific details from the text. (RI.4.2)
- I can summarize informational or persuasive text. (RI.4.2)
- I can produce writing that is appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (W.4.4)
- I can accurately synthesize information from two texts on the same topic. (RI.4.9)
- I can write informative/explanatory texts that convey ideas and information clearly. (W.4.2)
- I can use text, formatting, illustrations, and multimedia to support my topic. (W.4.2a)
- I can produce writing that is appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.(W.4.4)
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- Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Reading and Synthesizing Information from Two Texts on the Pufferfish (RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.4, RI.4.8, and RI.4.9)
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- Writing Informative Texts: Sequencing Ideas and Using Research Notes
- Writing Informative Texts: Revising Paragraphs for Organization, Concrete Details
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- I can write informative/explanatory texts that convey ideas and information clearly. (W.4.2)
- I can introduce a topic clearly. (W4.2a)
- I can group supporting facts together about a topic in an informative/explanatory text. (W.4.2a)
- I can use text, formatting, illustrations, and multimedia to support my topic. (W.4.2a)
- I can develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and quotations. (W.4.2b)
- I can use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information (e.g., another, for example, also, because). (W.4.2c)
- I can use precise, content-specific language/vocabulary to inform or explain about a topic. (W.4.2d)
- I can construct a concluding statement or section of an informative/explanatory text. (W.4.2e)
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- End of Unit 2 Assessment: Writing about the Defense Mechanisms of the Pufferfish (RI.4.9, W.4.2, W.4.4, W.4.7, and W.4.8)
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