Academic Standard

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Initiative: 
Common Core State Standards
Framework: 
English Language Arts & Literacy
Type: 
Standard
Code: 
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3
Grade range: 
4
Groupings:
Category = Key Ideas and Details
 
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Academic Lesson
 
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 4
 
Action Chains
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Analyzing Character Development Based on Historical Context
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
ELA / Literacy
Grade 4
 
Creepy Critters (Classifying Organisms)
Science
Grades 2 - 8
 
Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
 
Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Hot Wheelin' Physics
Science
Grades 2 - 7
 
How-To Writing: Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
ELA / Literacy
Grade 4
 
I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Narrative Writing: Best/Worst Day Experiences
ELA / Literacy
Grade 4
 
Oreo Cookie Writing
Multiple content areas
Grades 3 - 12
 
Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment
Multiple content areas
Grades 4 - 8
 
Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Research Paper: Writing Help
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
 
Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 7
 
Teaching the Short Story
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
The Cotton Economy
Social Studies
Grade 4
 
The Tabloid Ballad. Author: Poetry Outloud
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
U.S. History: Civil War- The Gettysburg Address
Multiple content areas
Grades 4 - 8
 
WritingFix: An Alphabet Book Research Project
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
Academic Web Link
 
A Fun Way to Teach Similes
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Cell Scale Size
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 5
 
Cells Alive- How Big Interactive
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 5
 
Create Your Own Comix Strip
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 6
 
Diamante Poems
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
 
General Evaluation Rubric for Papers
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Lit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
 
Narrowing Your Topic for Research
ELA / Literacy
Grades 2 - 8
 
Shape Poems
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 5
 
Sun Song
Multiple content areas
Grades 2 - 4
 
Tennessee History for Kids
ELA / Literacy
Grade 4
 
Writer's Toolkit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 5
Academic Activity/Task
 
ELA 4-5 Roberto Clemente
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
 
ELA 4-5 The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 5
 
Modeling Moon Phases
Science
Grades 2 - 6
Academic Unit
 
ELA 4-12 Common Core Unit User's Guide Grade 4 Engaging Students in Rigorous, Coherent Reading and Writing Instruction: Historical Fiction
Multiple content areas
Grade 4
 
ELA 4-12 Common Core Unit User?s Guide Grade 4 Engaging Students in Rigorous, Coherent Reading and Writing Instruction: Personal Narrative
ELA / Literacy
Grade 4