Grade 4 - Reading Comprehension - Manitoba Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 4 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Manitoba Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 4 Reading Comprehension unit in the Manitoba Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all elements, grade band descriptors, and elaborations related to reading comprehension in the grade 4 Manitoba Language (ELA) curriculum. There are 367 pages for students to master the skills they need to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this resource are the elaborations within the elements below:

Language as Sense Making – using reading comprehension strategies to read a variety of complex texts

Language as System – understanding the text patterns, features, and structures used within a variety of text forms

Language as Exploration and Design – using research skills to extend understanding of texts

Language as Power and Agency - reading other points of view/perspectives, justice, equity, fairness

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.

Some of the concepts covered:

• What are text forms?
• Different types of literary forms – novels, media texts, and journal entries
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, synthesizing, making inferences, visualizing
• Genres in text forms – fiction and non-fiction
• Sub-forms of genres – humour, adventure, traditional literature, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, biography, etc.
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, writing with voice
• Letters to the editor – determining the opinions of others and their supporting arguments
• Narratives – use of literary devices: personification, analogy, idiom
• Perspective in narratives – first-person, second-person, and third-person narration
• Story genres – fantasy, humour, and adventure
• Story elements – analyzing theme, conflicts, and purpose of stories
• Narratives – subplots and flashbacks in story writing
• Major and minor characters in narrative writing
• Structure in stories – beginning, middle, end
• Personal wonderings in stories – what would you do differently?
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – index, glossary, timelines, headings, subheadings, graphics, etc.
• Using graphics and images in reports to help the reader understand the text
• Synthesizing reports – Climate Change
• Problem/solution reports and cause and effect reports
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Use of infographics, timelines, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, and analogy
• Assignment – examining poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, free verse, concrete, and rhyming poems
• Poetic terms – stanza, verse, free verse, rhyming, syllables, and rhythm
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and indexes to understand a biography
• Biographies – Jane Goodall, Charles Darwin, Archimedes, Hiawatha: index and glossary
• Autobiographies – Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates
• Procedural writing – text forms: lists, title, graphics, and labels
• How graphics improve procedural writing
• Following instructions – drawing a totem pole and a tipi
• Metacognitive strategies – reflection sheets, reading journals, reading tracking charts
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 4 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Manitoba Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Manitoba Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.