Prepare fourth grade students for college and career readiness with this content-packed resource. This resource, authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction and nonfiction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and connections to the Daily Five, to enable educators to incorporate different learning opportunities into instruction to help build essential comprehension skills. This book includes 12 units across the four content areas of Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics. Each unit incorporates the following: Paired fiction and nonfiction text passages that deal with the same content Text-dependent activities that students complete after reading Comparing and contrasting of the fiction and nonfiction text passages Hands-on activities to pull together all of the ideas from a week's worth of work Differentiation strategies and assessment options to tailor to multiple intelligences and monitor students' progress
