Informational Text in 4th Grade with Science and Social Studies

Content TEKS and Process Skills / ELAR
Informational Text / Social Studies & Science Resources / Strategies
  • 4.11 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.
  • 4.11A Summarize the main idea and supporting details in text in ways that maintain meaning; (READINESS)
  • 4.11C Describe explicit and implicit relationships among ideas in texts organized by cause-and-effect, sequence, or comparison; (READINESS)
  • 4.11D Use multiple text features (e.g., guide words, topic and concluding sentences) to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information (READINESS)
  • 4.12 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their analysis.
  • 4.12A Explain how an author uses language to present information to influence what the reader thinks or does.
  • 4.13 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural Texts. Students understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents. Students are expected to:
  • 4.13A Determine the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure (e.g., following a recipe); (Supporting)
  • 4.13B Explain factual information presented graphically (e.g., charts, diagrams, graphs, illustrations). (Supporting)
/ Social Studies
  • Scott Foresman Textbook
  • TCM Primary Source Readers (1 kit per every two teachers on your campus)
  • LRE Biography Cards
Science
  • Delta Science Readers: Simple Machines, Color and Light, Electromagnetism, Erosion, Flight and Rocketry, Oceans, Pollution, Rocks and Minerals, Weather Forecasting, Your and Your Body (your kit has 8 copies of each title and 10 copies of corresponding Skillbuilders)
  • AIMS: booklets
  • STEMscopedia*
  • Reading Science **
  • Science Rocks! Lyrics**
  • P-B-L Science**
*found in STEMScopes 2.0, available in 2014-2015
**found in both STEMScopes 1.0 (currently available) and STEMScopes 2.0 /
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Foldables
  • Headlines/Reverse Headlines
  • I Used to Think…Now I Think
  • Sketch-to-Stretch
  • The Explanation Game
  • What Makes You Say That?
  • Think-Puzzle-Explore
  • Text Coding
  • This Needs a Caption

April 2014