Supporting Your Ideas with Reasons and Evidence for 4th Grade
I see it every year in my 4th grade English Language Arts class. When we examine informational text, students are great at picking out the main point, but they tend to stop there. They treat every sentence in a paragraph like it carries the same weight, failing to... read more
Teaching Fluency in 4th Grade English Language Arts
A small farming village sits beside the river where the farmer works each day. It is a quiet, simple sentence, but for a 4th grade student, it is the perfect place to start talking about what fluency actually sounds like in practice. When you listen to your students... read more