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Unit 6: American Revolution Unit PlanUnit 6: American Revolution Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
4th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 mo 5 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2014
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Unit 6: American Revolution

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This Unit 6: American Revolution unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 6: American Revolution (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Activity Book: American Revolution (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: American Revolution (.pdf)
  • Alignment Chart: American Revolution (.pdf)
  • Digital Components: American Revolution (.pdf)
  • Introduction to Fourth Grade CKLA (.pdf)
  • Yearlong Teacher Resources: Fourth Grade Ancillary Materials (.pdf)
  • Beginning of Year Assessment: Fourth Grade Ancillary Materials (.pdf)
  • Decoding and Encoding Remediation Supplement: Fourth Grade Ancillary Materials (.pdf)
  • Fluency Supplement: Fourth Grade Ancillary Materials (.pdf)
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The American Revolution is the theme of a five-week unit that focuses on reading, grammar, morphology, and writing. Scholars read and respond to texts, practice spelling and word work, and write paragraphs. Assessments gauge comprehension.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

reading, read-alouds, reading aloud, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading, Grammar, commas, commas in a series, morphology, roots, quotation marks, Writing, cause and effect, body paragraphs, introductory paragraphs, action verbs, verbs, prefixes, auxiliary verbs, concluding paragraphs, paragraph writing, suffixes, the american revolution

Instructional Ideas

  • Create anchor charts and keep them on display throughout the series; add information when needed 
  • If your class does not assign homework, plan take-home materials for in-class independent practice

Classroom Considerations

  • The sixth of eight units created for fourth graders by Core Knowledge
  • Set aside prep time to make copies and collect other materials specific to each lesson

Pros

  • The table of contents details each lesson's concepts
  • Information is scaffolded from unit to unit and lesson to lesson

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.4 RL.4.5 RL.4.7 RL.4.10 RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RI.4.3 RI.4.4 RI.4.5 RI.4.7 RI.4.8 RI.4.9 RI.4.10 RF.4.3.a RF.4.4.a RF.4.4.b RF.4.4.c W.4.2.a W.4.2.b W.4.2.c W.4.2.d W.4.2.e W.4.4 W.4.5 W.4.8 W.4.9.b W.4.10 SL.4.1.a SL.4.1.b SL.4.1.c SL.4.2 SL.4.3 L.4.1.c L.4.2.a L.4.2.b L.4.2.d L.4.3.a L.4.4.a L.4.4.b L.4.4.c L.4.5.a L.4.5.b L.4.5.c L.4.6

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