4th Grade Literacy

5 components of literacy
Comprehension:
1. 21 Anchor Charts That Teach Reading Comprehension
- These 21 anchor charts teach comprehension by focusing on building a
bridge between learning and accountability.
- Reading comprehension is a very complex skill to teach and these 21
anchor charts will help.
https://www.weareteachers.com/21-anchor-charts-that-teach-reading-
comprehension/
2. Key Comprehension Strategies to Teach:
- Activating and Using Background Knowledge
o Readers use this strategy to activate their prior knowledge and use
that knowledge to help them understand.
- Generating and Asking Questions
o Students will use this strategy to ask themselves questions
throughout the reading of the text.
- Making Inferences
o This strategy requires readers to evaluate or draw conclusions from
information in a text.
- Predicting
o This strategy involves students taking information from the text and
making predictions.
- Summarizing
o The ability for a student to pull information from a text together and
explain it in their own words.
- Visualizing
o This is when students can mentally create an image from what they
read in a text and how they understand it.
- Comprehension Monitoring
o This strategy involves the readers knowing when they have the
ability to understand what they read, when they do not understand,
and how to improve their understanding.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/key-comprehension-strategies-teach
3. Metacognition:
- This is where students think about their thinking.
- Students can have control over their reading by adjusting to the difficulty
level of the text or fix any comprehension problems they have.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-students-text-
comprehension

4. Kahoot is a great way to get the students engage in their learning

- Kahoot creates a fun environment for students to participate in and learn
from.
- I have done this in my practicum classes and the students love it.
 https://getkahoot.com/?
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5. Determining the Main idea
- 8 reading passages designed for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
- This strategy is designed to help students think for themselves and
determine the main idea of the passages.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460633868112537626/
6. Just Print Reading Comprehension 4-5th
- This resource includes text dependent activities.
- Simple print reading comprehension sets.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287597126182206416/
7. Close Reading
- This is a very creative literacy station that involves close reading tools;
- Highlighter: to highlight words or phrases that are important to the text.
- Pencil: to mark the text and underline important details.
- Magnifying glass: to search for evidence within the text.
- Sticky notes: to record ideas or notes about the text.
http://www.createteachshare.com/2016/06/close-reading-toolbox-freebie.html
8. Reading Comprehension Strategy Checklist:
- This resource is very beneficial for readers.
- Readers who use these strategies will have high comprehension skills.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/187884615680895393/
9. Think-Pair-Share
- This is a great activity for students to work together to form a solution to a
problem.
- This is great because it allows the students to think for themselves and
share ideas.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/think-pair-share
10.Teaching Metalinguistic Awareness and Reading Comprehension with Riddles:
- Riddles are a perfect medium for learning how to manipulate language for
many reasons.
- Riddles help stimulate students metalinguistic awareness.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-metalinguistic-awareness-and-
reading-comprehension-riddles
11.Elements of a Story 4th Grade
- This resource allows students to follow along a story with the computer
and answer questions throughout the story to comprehend it.
http://www.learningtoday.com/curriculum/reading-comprehension/
12.For Parents:
- This resource is just to show parents how important of a role they play
early in their childrens lives.
- Parents have to give their kids the basic skills and work on those building
blocks.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/comprehension
13.Jigsaw
- This strategy is very helpful in the classroom.
- In small groups, students read a passage and then talk about what they
read with their group.
 - Then they share the information with the whole class about what they
have understood during their reading.
14.Compare, Contrast, Comprehend: Using Compare-Contrast Text Structures
- Students will be taught to identify compare-contrast text structure and
use it to support their comprehension.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/compare-contrast-comprehend-using-
compare-contrast-text-structures-ells-k-3-classrooms
15.Determining the Main Idea: Differentiated Task Cards
- Students have differentiated task cards that help them determine the
main idea.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460633868112537626/

Fluency:
16.Fluency: An Introduction.
- This gives a brief summary of fluency.
- It explains the difference between fluency and automaticity.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/fluency-introduction
17.For Students Who Are Not Yet Fluent, Silent Reading Is Not the Best Use of
Classroom Time
- This resource is to provide instruction and choose the right methods to
improve childrens fluency.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/students-who-are-not-yet-fluent-silent-
reading-not-best-use-classroom-time
18.What works in Fluency Instruction
- This resource gives us two most common instructional methods for
developing fluency.
- Guided Oral Reading: Positive impact on developing fluency.
- Independent Silent Reading: Positive impact on developing fluency.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-works-fluency-instruction
19.Fluency Matter
- This resource is great for beginning teachers.
- Explains fluency and how to foster fluency.
- Gives examples of how to develop fluency; Paired or buddy reading and
Reread favorite books.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/fluency-matters
20.Poems at Home
- Poems at home is a great way to help students develop fluency at home
by creating a warm environment where the pressure is not on the
students at school.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/poems-home
21.Auto-Assisted Reading
- This allows students to read along in their books as they hear a fluent
reader read a book on an audio recording.
- Students began to gain more confidence.
 http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/audio_assisted_reading
22.Choral Reading
- Choral reading helps build students fluency, self- confidence, and
motivation.
- Students read together as a whole class.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/choral_reading
23.Paired Reading
- This is a great exercise for when students are struggling with fluency.
- Students read aloud with their partner.
- Some advice would be to pair more fluent readers with less fluent readers.
- This helps students build confidence.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/paired_reading
24.Shared Reading
- Shared reading is excellent because it provides struggling students with
necessary support.
- It also allows students to enjoy materials that they may not be able to
read on their own.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/shared_reading
25.Dolch Wordlist Fluency Generator
- This helps with letter identification.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/teacher-resources/dolch-wordlist-fluency-
generator
26.Fluency Word Parts
- This is designed for students to gain speed and accuracy in reading
syllables.
http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/PDF/G4-5/45FPartOne.pdf
27.Fluency
- This strategy is to motivate students and help them build oral fluency,
accuracy, and expression with engaging passages and scripts to read
aloud.
https://www.readinga-z.com/fluency/index.html
28.Timed Repeated Readings
- This is a great time for teachers to monitor students fluency
development.
- This improves reading rate, one aspect of fluency.
- This also improves accuracy, a second aspect of fluency, and leads to
improved comprehension.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/timed_repeated_readings
29.4th Grade Fluency Passages:
- Designed to help students out with their oral reading fluency.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/165648092521161173/

Phonemic/Phonological awareness:
30.Blending: Guess-the-word game.
- Teaching the skills of segmentation in isolation in combination with
blending instruction helps with successful reading development.
 - Children who can segment and blend sounds easily are able to use this
knowledge when reading and spelling.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

31.Robot Talk:
- Students hear segmented sounds and put them together (Blend them)
into words.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

32.Blending Slide:
- Teachers use Reading Genie to help them teach a simple way about
blends.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

33.Oral Blending Activity:

- This resource emphasizes the importance of teaching blending skills to
young children.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

34.Sound Blending Using Songs:

- This resource is a great tool for showing how songs can also be used for
blending activities.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

35.Segmenting:
- This website is an example of how to teach students to segment, first with
sentences, then words, and finally sounds.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

36.Be the Sentence:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_of_word

37.Cut up Sentence:
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_of_word

38.Spin and Tell Phonemic Wheel:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AVjkxppkrSmtb9CicXI7gVAIbehN5gNOd691fh1
9zAQ9ksu6LY2vO8o/
39.9 Fun Activities to Build Phonemic Awareness
http://themoffattgirls.com/what-is-phonemic-awareness-and-why/
40.Silent e Flip Strips
- Silent E Rule: CVC and CVCe
- These strips will help students read and learn how to spell them and know
the difference between CVC and CVCe.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Silent-e-Flip-Strips-1079705
Phonics:
41.Learning Center Ideas: Free, Fun, Phonics Activities
- This is full of free and fun phonics activities that helps students
understand sounds with letters.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/28921622579241719/
42.The Phive Phonics of Reading:
- Phonics:
o Is an instructional strategy.
o Phonics has to do with teaching the relationships between sounds in
speech and the letters of the alphabet.
- Phonetic spelling or reading:
o Behavior that young readers exhibit when they are trying to write or
read.
- Phonology:
o Has to do with the ability to distinguish and categorize sounds in
speech.
- Phonological Awareness:
o Also has to do with sounds in spoken words
o Deals with the childs understanding that spoken words are made
up of sounds.
- Phoneme Awareness:
o The phoneme is the basic building block for spoken words.
o Spoken words are made up of individual phonemes.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/phive-phones-reading
43.Alphabet Matching:
- Help by understanding that there are systematic and predictable
relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
- Teachers can help students develop this understanding through lots of fun
activities that help students explore the alphabet letters and sounds.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies#skill1039
44.Matching Books to Phonics Features:
- Careful pairing of reading with phonics study gives children a chance to
apply what they are learning about letters and sounds to the reading of
words and stories.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies#skill1039
45.Synthetic Phonics: Diller 117
- Involves teaching children letter-sound relationships, and teaching kids to
break written words apart, sound by sound.
46.Analogy Phonics: Diller 117
- Focuses on teaching about word families.
47.Analytic Phonics: Diller 117
- Relates to teaching children how to sort words and look at different
spelling patterns.
48.Phonics through spelling: Diller 117
- Involves children learning about phonics during writing experiences.
 49.Imbedded Phonics: Diller 117
- Is a method in which children are taught through real reading experiences.
50.Closed Syllables:
- Includes activities such as break the syllable, matching syllables, and tic-
tac-toe board.
- Students can work on their syllables.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Closed-Syllables-Free-Sample-
2444084

Vocab:
51.Play Vocabulary Bingo
- Vocabulary development is a key component in upper elementary reading
programs.
https://www.education.com/activity/article/Vocabulary_Bingo_fifth/
52.Vocabulary Book
- This activity is for students to activate their brains by getting creative and
making a handmade vocabulary book with complete illustrations.
https://www.education.com/activity/article/Vocabulary_Book_fourth/
53.Test your Vocabulary
- This is a great tool for testing vocabulary.
- This game is to help kids memorize and use big words in new ways.
https://www.education.com/activity/article/test-your-vocabulary/
54.Stack the Words
- This is a great activity that allows students to put the vocabulary words
and definitions together.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/grades-4-5-
vocabulary-games/
55.Relay Runners
- The students are enjoying a relay game using studied vocabulary words.
- This is different than the normal vocabulary lessons.
- Its more fun and the students enjoy new things.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/grades-4-5-
vocabulary-games/
56.Word Detectives
- This activity is great for students because they can be detective.
- They have to find their vocabulary word but they have to be a detective to
figure it out.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/grades-4-5-
vocabulary-games/
57.Picture it!
- This is a great activity for students to play. Student group up into partners
and one person is drawing and the other person is guessing the
vocabulary word.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/grades-4-5-
vocabulary-games/
58.Learning new vocabulary words with comic strips:
- An exciting new way to learn vocabulary words.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183169909823350157/
59.Beach Keen Learning Ideas: Vocabulary Ball
- The beach ball can be used for a vocabulary ball. The vocabulary words
can be written on the ball and when students get passed the ball, which
ever part their right hand touches, they have to read the definition and
then guess the word that best fits.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/365706432213258512/
60.Dollar Words: Page 146 of Diller
- This is a great chart to explain words and how they relate to money in
size.
- Example, big is considered a penny. Huge is considered a quarter. Lastly,
enormous is considered a dollar bill.
- That explains how words can have the same meaning but different sizes.