Whose Story Is It: Summarizing and Sources: Reading Unit 3, Grade 4 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Whose Story Is It: Summarizing and Sources is Unit 3 of Reading and Writing with Evidence: Grade 4 ELA (Grade 4), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 46 pages.

• Main idea versus key detail in a short informational text
• Summary as compression of main idea and key details, distinct from retell
• The distinction between summary and retell
• Firsthand versus secondhand accounts of the same event
• How a source’s position shapes what it can report, in a paired firsthand/secondhand text set
• Point of view in nonfiction reporting
• Discriminating between the summarizing skill and the sourcing skill when both are plausible responses to a new text
• Disagreement between two true accounts of one event, explained by position and access

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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