Reading Literary Text, Grade 4 - Teacher's Edition, Print

Help your fourth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
 
Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as fantasy, comedy, realistic fiction, and historical fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Dictionary page to introduce content and academic vocabulary
• Close reading activity and close reading discussion
• Learn and apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and
  literary analysis
• Reading comprehension activity
• Literary response writing activity

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Fairy Tale: “Gordon and the Three Zookeepers”
• Poetry: “My Shadow,” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Myth: “Why Spiders Spin Webs”
• Folk Tale: “Why Br’er Lizard Can’t Sit”
  (Adapted from Why Lizards Can’t Sit as retold by S. E. Schlosser)
• Realistic Fiction: “Expert Pet Sitters”
• Comedy: “Pigs Is Pigs”
• Fantasy: “The Whale’s Throat”
  (Adapted from How the Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling)
• Thriller: “The Metamorphosis of Greg”
  (Adapted from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)