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📖 4th Grade · ELARL.4.10Unit 1: Launching reading: inference & evidence

Reading identity and goals

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🎯 Objective: Students reflect on reading habits and set goals.

Lesson outline

  1. Reading survey and reflection.
  2. Book tasting across genres.
  3. Set a reading goal with a plan.
  4. Exit: your goal.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.4.10

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Refer to details and examples when explaining what a text says and when drawing inferences

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Theme of a story📚 Read-aloud stories📚 All 4th Grade skills⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Launching reading: inference & evidence”

  1. Reading identity and goals
  2. Making inferences
  3. Citing details
  4. Accountable talk

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