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Grade 4 Read/Write

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February 18, 2025

Unit 5: Poetry: Wondrous Words

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Materials

Student

●“Moonlight” and “Gardens Ecosystem” text

●T to T Connections Sim/Diff “Moonlight” and “Gardens Ecosystem”

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Text 1/Text 2 Chart “Moonlight” and “Gardens Ecosystem”

●World’s Largest Tea Party text

●T to T Connections Sim/Dif “The World’s Largest Tea Party” & “Paul Reveres Ride” Chart:

●Response Cards

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Do Now

1. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

2. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

The bird are beautiful to watch
and observe in their actions.
It started when i noticed birds
outside my window.

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Do Now

1. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

2. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

The bird are beautiful to watch
and observe in their actions.
It started when i noticed birds
outside my window.

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Capitalization
Usage
Punctuation
Spelling

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Conventions
Capitalization
Usage
Punctuation
Spelling

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Conventions

Capitalization: Does anything need to be
capitalized?

Usage: Are you using your words
correctly?

Punctuation: Does the sentence have
punctuation?

Spelling: Are there any misspellings?

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Do Now

1. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

Write your answer on your
whiteboard and be ready to show
it with pride.

2. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

Write your answer on your white
board and be ready to show it
with even more pride.

The bird are beautiful to watch
and observe in their actions.
It started when i noticed birds
outside my window.

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Do Now

1. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

A.Change The to the
B.Change bird to birds
C.Change are to were
D.No change is needed

2. Read the sentence.

What change, if any, should be
made to the sentence?

A.Change It to It’s
B.Change started to start
C.Change i to I
D.No change is needed

The bird are beautiful to watch
and observe in their actions.
It started when i noticed birds
outside my window.

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LO: SWBAT make connections to
ideas in other texts.

DOL: Given a text, students will correctly make
connections to ideas in other texts in at least 4 of 5
questions.

Unit 5: Poetry: Wondrous Words

ⓇELA 4.6E make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts,and society

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Academic Vocabulary: text to self, text to world, text to text

__________________

(noun)

connections that a reader
makes between a piece of
reading material and the
reader's own experiences

or life

_______________

(noun)

connections that a reader

makes between two or

more different texts

________________

(noun)

connections that a reader
makes to a community,
society, or to the world

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Academic Vocabulary

text to self

(noun)

connections that a reader
makes between a piece of
reading material and the
reader's own experiences

or life

text to text

(noun)

connections that a reader

makes between two or

more different texts

Text to world

(noun)

connections that a reader
makes to a community or

to the world

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●Thoughts

●Experiences

●Travels

●Family

●Friends

Text

to
self

●Other texts

●Characters

●Poems

●Articles

●Blogs

Text

to
text

●Television

●Movies

●Events

●Games

●News

Text

to

world

Readers can make connections…

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How can readers make text to text

connections?

Text

to
text

Are the messages in the texts the SAME or

DIFFERENT?

Are the people in the texts the SAME or

DIFFERENT?

Are the events/actions in the texts the

SAME or DIFFERENT?

I recently read _____ and ______. A SIMILARITY/DIFFERENCE
between the texts is…

Think about two
texts you’ve read.

What are similarities and
differences between the

two texts?

Making Connections!

Moonlight

The sun fades,
and the day is done.
The moon is a nightlight,
casting a glow.

5 Casting shadows in the night,

the moon starts it’s show.
But once the night is done,
the moon fades.

Gardens Ecosystem

Gardens undergo important changes

during nighttime hours. Nocturnal

pollinators like moths become active,

helping plants. The cooler

temperatures allow plants to conserve
water more efficiently. Many flowers

release their strongest fragrances after

sunset, which attracts specific

nighttime insects. This period is also

crucial for decomposition processes as
many soil organisms are most active in

darkness.

What are
similarities

and

difference
s between

these
texts?

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Text-to-Text Connections

“Moonlight”

Similarities

“A Gardens
Ecosystem”

Difference

Difference

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Text-to-Text Connections

“Moonlight”

Similarities

“A Gardens
Ecosystem”

Difference

Difference

Is a poem with rhyming
lines

Focuses on visual
descriptions of the moon
and shadows

Focuses on what we can
see in the night sky

Focuses on scientific facts
about plants and insects

Focuses on things
happening on the
ground/in the soil at night

Is an informational text

Both show changes that
happen from day to night

Both texts describe
nighttime events

Both describe natural
processes in the dark

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How is nighttime in the poem "Moonlight"
DIFFERENT from the text "A Gardens
Ecosystem"?

A. The poem describes nighttime in the city, while

the text describes nighttime in nature.

B. The poem describes nighttime in winter, while

the text describes nighttime in summer.

C. The poem shows nighttime ending quickly,

while the text shows night lasting several
days.

D. The poem describes night as quiet and still,

while the text shows night as a time of busy
activity.

Text 1

Text 2

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How is nighttime in the poem "Moonlight"
DIFFERENT from the text "A Gardens
Ecosystem"?

A. The poem describes nighttime in the city, while

the text describes nighttime in nature.

B. The poem describes nighttime in winter, while

the text describes nighttime in summer.

C. The poem shows nighttime ending quickly,

while the text shows night lasting several
days.

D. The poem describes night as quiet and still,

while the text shows night as a time of busy
activity.

Text 1

Text 2

Both texts only talk
about what
happens in one
night.

O
?

Neither text
mentions what
season it is.

The poem shows a
calm night, while the
text describes busy
nighttime activity.

Both texts show
outdoor nature
scenes.

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Paul Revere's

Ride

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____________

(noun)

a bell tower or

steeple housing bells,
especially one that is

part of a church

_____________

(adjective)

dark or dull in color or

tone; gloomy

_____________

(adjective)

behaving in a

cautious manner, so
as not to be seen or

heard

Content Vocabulary: sombre, belfry, stealthy

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belfry
(noun)

a bell tower or

steeple housing bells,
especially one that is

part of a church

sombre
(adjective)

dark or dull in color or

tone; gloomy

stealthy
(adjective)

behaving in a

cautious manner, so
as not to be seen or

heard

Content Vocabulary

Read

Stop

Jot!

Read the poem

(pgs. 86-88)

Stop and ask yourself:

●What is happening in the
text?

●What are the important
events in the poem?

●What is the message in the
poem?

This is important!

Underline key words

or details

I don’t understand

Readers are expected to…

1

2

3

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Paul Revere’s Ride

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

Then he said “Good-night!” and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;

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A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.

Then he climbed the tower of the church,
By wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,—
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
(no stanza break)

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To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

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To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

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You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear

What is happening in this stanza?

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You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear

What is happening in this stanza?

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“Paul Revere's Ride” Vocabulary

Definition
Examples

Image
Synonym

open resistance; bold
disobedience (noun)

A cry of defiance, and not of fear,

(Amplify Anthology pg. 87)

● resistance
● opposition
● confrontation

defiance

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The Largest

Tea Party

Read

Stop

Jot!

Read the text

Stop and ask yourself:

●What is happening in the
text?

●What are the important
events in the poem?

●What is the message in the
text?

This is important!

Underline key words

or details

I don’t understand

Readers are expected to…

1

2

3

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The World’s Largest Tea Party

In December 1773, there was another incident in Boston. Three ships

loaded with tea were docked in Boston Harbor. The captains had orders to unload
the tea so it could be sold in Boston.

The Sons of Liberty refused to let this happen. They had spent a lot of

time convincing the people of Boston not to buy or sell British tea. There was no
way they were going to let the captains unload all that tea. The Sons of Liberty
demanded the captains raise anchor and sail away.

The captains weren’t sure what to do, so they did not do anything. The

ships sat in the harbor until the Sons of Liberty finally decided to get rid of the tea
once and for all. Dressed as Native Americans, they and other members of the
patriot movement boarded the ships and threw the tea into Boston Harbor. They
dumped approximately 340 chests of tea—worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
in today’s money—into the Atlantic Ocean. Later, this act of protest came to be
known as the Boston Tea Party.

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The World’s Largest Tea Party

In December 1773, there was another incident in Boston. Three ships

loaded with tea were docked in Boston Harbor. The captains had orders to unload
the tea so it could be sold in Boston.

What did you annotate in this paragraph? What did you notice?

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The World’s Largest Tea Party

In December 1773, there was another incident in Boston. Three ships

loaded with tea were docked in Boston Harbor. The captains had orders to unload
the tea so it could be sold in Boston. What did you annotate in this paragraph? What did you notice?

The Sons of Liberty refused to let this happen. They had spent a lot of

time convincing the people of Boston not to buy or sell British tea. There was no
way they were going to let the captains unload all that tea. The Sons of Liberty
demanded the captains raise anchor and sail away.

What did you annotate in this paragraph? Who seems to be the savior in this
text??

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The World’s Largest Tea Party

In December 1773, there was another incident in Boston. Three ships

loaded with tea were docked in Boston Harbor. The captains had orders to unload
the tea so it could be sold in Boston.
What did you annotate in this paragraph? What did you notice?

The Sons of Liberty refused to let this happen. They had spent a lot of

time convincing the people of Boston not to buy or sell British tea. There was no
way they were going to let the captains unload all that tea. The Sons of Liberty
demanded the captains raise anchor and sail away. Who seems to be the savior here in this text?

The captains weren’t sure what to do, so they did not do anything. The

ships sat in the harbor until the Sons of Liberty finally decided to get rid of the tea
once and for all. Dressed as Native Americans, they and other members of the
patriot movement boarded the ships and threw the tea into Boston Harbor. They
dumped approximately 340 chests of tea—worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
in today’s money—into the Atlantic Ocean. Later, this act of protest came to be
known as the Boston Tea Party. Why did the Sons of Liberty dress up as Native Americans?

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A.They were waiting for better weather.

B.They had orders to unload tea for sale in

Boston.

C.They were bringing soldiers from Britain.

D.They were collecting tea from Boston

merchants.

Why were the three ships waiting in

Boston Harbor?

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A.They were waiting for better weather.

B.They had orders to unload tea for sale in

Boston.

C.They were bringing soldiers from Britain.

D.They were collecting tea from Boston

merchants.

Why were the three ships waiting in

Boston Harbor?

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The World’s Largest Tea Party

In December 1773, there was another incident in Boston. Three ships

loaded with tea were docked in Boston Harbor. The captains had orders to unload
the tea so it could be sold in Boston.

The Sons of Liberty refused to let this happen. They had spent a lot of

time convincing the people of Boston not to buy or sell British tea. There was no
way they were going to let the captains unload all that tea. The Sons of Liberty
demanded the captains raise anchor and sail away.

The captains weren’t sure what to do, so they did not do anything. The

ships sat in the harbor until the Sons of Liberty finally decided to get rid of the tea
once and for all. Dressed as Native Americans, they and other members of the
patriot movement boarded the ships and threw the tea into Boston Harbor. They
dumped approximately 340 chests of tea—worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
in today’s money—into the Atlantic Ocean. Later, this act of protest came to be
known as the Boston Tea Party.

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“Paul Revere's Ride” Vocabulary

Definition
Examples

Image
Synonym

approximate

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Text-to-Text Connections

“Paul Revere's

Ride”
Similarities

“The Largest Tea

Party”

Difference

Difference

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Text-to-Text Connections

“Paul Revere's

Ride”
Similarities

“The Largest Tea

Party”

Difference

Difference

Is a poem with rhyming
lines

Focuses on Paul Revere's
heroic actions

Describes warning people
about danger

Focuses on The Sons of
Liberty's actions

Describes destroying tea
as a protest

Is an informational text

Both events happened
at night

Both show brave
Americans standing up
to the British

Both were important
events before the
Revolution

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A SIMILARITY between the poem "Paul Revere's

Ride" and the text "The Largest Tea Party" is..

What is a SIMILARITY between the
poem "Paul Revere's Ride" and the

text "The Largest Tea Party" ?

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A.Both texts tell stories of soldiers who chose to leave the

British army to join the colonists.

B. Both texts describe events where messages were secretly

delivered to warn about British actions.

C. Both texts show patriots who worked under cover of

darkness for freedom.

D.Both texts focus on secret meetings between colonial leaders

in Boston churches.

Which sentence best describes a SIMILARITY between the poem "Paul
Revere's Ride" and the text "The World’s Largest Tea Party"?

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A.Both texts tell stories of soldiers who chose to leave the

British army to join the colonists.

B. Both texts describe events where messages were secretly

delivered to warn about British actions.

C. Both texts show patriots who worked under cover of

darkness for freedom.

D.Both texts focus on secret meetings between colonial leaders

in Boston churches.

Which sentence best describes a SIMILARITY between the poem
"Paul Revere's Ride" and the text "The Largest Tea Party"?

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A.Colonial patriots gave up when British authority became

too powerful.

B. Colonial patriots put their community's freedom before

their own safety.

C. Colonial patriots could only resist British rule through

battles.

D.Colonial patriots had to work completely alone to achieve

their goals.

Which idea in the poem “Paul Revere's Ride” is SIMILAR to
the text “The World’s Largest Tea Party”?

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A.Colonial patriots gave up when British authority became

too powerful.

B. Colonial patriots put their community's freedom before

their own safety.

C. Colonial patriots could only resist British rule through

battles.

D.Colonial patriots had to work completely alone to achieve

their goals.

Which idea in the poem “Paul Revere's Ride” is
SIMILAR to the text “The Largest Tea Party”?

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A DIFFERENCE between the poem "Paul Revere's

Ride" and the text "The Largest Tea Party" is..

What is a DIFFERENCE between the
poem "Paul Revere's Ride" and the

text "The Largest Tea Party" ?

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SCR

Look-fors in SCR responses:
❏ A complete response will provide

one of the possible responses.

❏ Evidence is accurately used to

support the response.

❏ The response and the evidence to

support it are based on the text.

1 point

2 points

What is a DIFFERENCE between the poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
and the text "The Largest Tea Party"? Support your answer
using evidence from the text.

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A difference between "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Largest Tea
Party" is Paul Revere was warning people about danger, while
the Sons of Liberty were destroying tea for protest. In the poem,
Paul Revere Ride it states, "waken and listen to hear.” This is a
warning that the British soldiers were coming. In the text, “The
World’s Largest Tea Party” we read that "they boarded the ships
and threw the tea into Boston Harbor.” This is to protest British
rule of the colonies. These details exhibit a difference between
the two texts.

What is a DIFFERENCE between the poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
and the text "The Largest Tea Party"? Support your answer
using evidence from the text.

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Real World Connection

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A. New beginnings can be exciting.
B. Following orders is more important than

making choices.

C. Staying safe matters more than helping others.
D. Standing up for freedom can be difficult.

What theme do BOTH texts share?

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A. New beginnings can be exciting.
B. Following orders is more important than

making choices.

C. Staying safe matters more than helping others.
D. Standing up for freedom can be difficult.

What theme do BOTH texts share?

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HOT Question

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DOL: Given a text,
students will correctly
make connections to ideas
in other texts in at least 4
of 5 questions.

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