ELA.4.R.2.3

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Explain an author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.

Clarifications

Clarification 1: The term perspective means “a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.”
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 4
Strand: Reading
Standard: Reading Informational Text
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010045: Language Arts - Grade Four (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710015: Access Language Arts - Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010024: Basic Skills in Reading 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010104: Introduction to Debate Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010015: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2022 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.4.R.2.AP.3: Explain an author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.

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Lesson Plan

Disaster Response Drone Missions:

Students will use multiplication and division of whole numbers to develop a plan to resupply a remote village with clean water after an earthquake. This is an open-ended engineering design lesson where students will develop a model to help them solve a problem. There are no “right” answers as the lesson is focused on the process of developing a solution and the skills and reasoning behind the process. Students should be given the freedom to interpret the problem and parameters in unique ways to pursue their own lines of thinking in producing a solution.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Comprehension: Inquisitive Inquiries:

In this activity, students will answer questions about the author's purpose.

Type: Student Center Activity

Comprehension: What's the Purpose?:

In this activity, students will identify the author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain, explain) by sorting passages.

Type: Student Center Activity

Video/Audio/Animation

Portraits in Patriotism - Ardian Zika: Elementary School:

Ardian Zika grew up in communist Yugoslavia (now Kosovo). He immigrated to the United States, became a U.S. citizen, and was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2018.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation

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