4th Grade Reading March Lesson Plans Activities St Patrick's Day Women's History
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Fourth grade ELA Reading and Writing lesson plans, passages, and activities for the entire month of March! Celebrate Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day, and March Madness without taking away from the rigorous 4th grade standards! Included are book units for I Dissent, Fiona's Luck, Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato, Salt in His Shoes, and The Gardener. This product can be used as a supplemental 4th grade reading curriculum for reading, writing, grammar, and vocab. This product includes lesson plans that are both CCSS and TEKS aligned.
These daily 4th grade reading lessons for March include the use of mentor texts and interactive read alouds to teach grammar, vocabulary, and reading, and writing skills in the upper elementary classroom. Follow my store for updates for 4th grade reading and writing coming in April!
The benefits of interactive read alouds are immense, even in the upper elementary grades. Using mentor texts to teach reading skills is so important to develop comprehension in fourth grade. For this reason, I've created these lessons to be centered around each of the books. There is one mentor text assigned for each week. This book will be revisited several times throughout the week to develop reading skills and strategies.
You will need the following books to use with this product:
I Dissent by Debbie Levy
Fiona's Luck by Teresa Bateman
Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola
Salt in His Shoes by Deloris Jordan
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
This product also includes 4th grade level NONFICTION PASSAGES and booklets to pair with each book to help students practice skills using informational texts. There are also paired passages with opportunities for extended response.
These lessons and activities are focused around the following reading skills:
Making Inferences & Text Evidence
Drawing Conclusions
Explaining Historical Events
Cause & Effect
Compare & Contrast
Comparing Folktales
Character Analysis
Determining Importance
Theme
Integrating Information
The GRAMMAR focus for March is morphology
- Week 1 - Prefixes
- Week 2 - Multiple Meaning Words
- Week 3 - Suffixes
- Week 4 - Roots
These resources are purposefully aligned to both TEKS and Common Core standards.
The benefits of interactive read alouds are immense, and they extend far beyond K-2! If you are not already, consider incorporating read alouds into your upper elementary ELAR block. The importance of having the reading process modeled is significant for both younger and older students alike.
Benefits of Interactive Read-Aloud
- Teacher models fluency
- Develops vocabulary
- Promotes classroom community
- Collaborate and practice comprehension strategies
- Teacher models higher order thinking and questioning
And so much more!
Answer key is provided for all multiple choice and short answer questions.
If you enjoyed this resource, you can find many other 4th grade lessons, activities, book companions, comprehension printables, and more in my TpT store. Here are a few you might enjoy:
- A full week of reading, writing and grammar lessons for In November
- Main Idea & Supporting Details Task Cards 4th Grade
- Comprehension printables for Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant
- Task Cards for Encounter by Jane Yolen + Figurative Language Notebook
And much more!
Follow me on TpT and Pinterest for more resources and ideas! I will be adding additional 4th grade lessons and activities for January.
You may also be interested in my other book companions and comprehension printables which can be found in my TpT store:
Eve Bunting A Day's Work comprehension printables
Diana Appelbaum Cocoa Ice read aloud writing response
Nina Laden The Night I Followed the Dog QR story printables
Chris Van Allsburg Two Bad Ants comprehension worksheets
Patricia McKissack Mirandy and Brother Wind interactive read aloud
Keiko Kasza My Lucky Day reading response activities
Papa Tells Chita a Story vocabulary and comprehension pages
Alexander Ramsey Calvin Ruth and the Green Book comprehension
The Dog that Dug for Dinosaurs by Shirley Raye Redmond printables
The Legend of the Bluebonnet reading response worksheets
Jacqueline Woodson Each Kindness reading response & writing activity
Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet response worksheets
Will Hubbell Pumpkin Jack comprehension worksheets and writing activities
City Green By DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan comprehension and reading response
Helen Recorvits My Name is Yoon comprehension and vocabulary
I hope you enjoy!
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