Listening/

Speaking

4.1 - 4.5

4.3 Listens attentively and purposefully

• book Walk
• Media Messages

• Think Aloud

4.3 Listens, enjoys, and appreciates

• Echo Me
• Interactive Read Aloud
• RIVET
• Spoken Messages

4.4 Listens/speaks to gain and share knowledge of own and others' cultures

• Make a Date

4.5 Speaks appropriately to different audiences for different purposes

• Echo Me
• Language Registers
• Performance Reading
• Thoughtful Response Guide (Word)

Print Awareness Decoding

Word Identification

4.6

4.6 Uses a variety of word recognition strategies

• Alphabet letters for word walls (Word) (PDF)
• Dictionary Quartiles
• Guided Reading
• Instant Word Recognition Activity
• Interactive Read-Aloud
• Ladders Word Activity (Word)   (PDF)
• Personal Word Wall Pages (Word) (PDF)
• Quad Card (Word) (PDF)

• Reference It!
• Vocabualry (Six Steps activities)
• Visualizing words using RIVET strategy
• Vocabulary Cards
• Word Walls

4.7 Reads with fluency and understanding in appropriate texts

• Buddy Reading
• Derivative Memory
• Echo Me
• Fluency Guide (for one-minute whole class or individual fluency checks)
• Interactive Read-Aloud
• Performance Reading
• Sustained Silent Reading Guidelines (Word)  (PDF)

4.8 Reads widely for different purposes from varied sources

• Book Tasting (Word)   (PDF)
• Reading Log
• Reading log 2 (Word) (PDF)
• Reading Interest Survey (Word)   (PDF)
• RIVET
• Say What?

4.9 Acquires and extensive vocabulary through reading and systematic word study

• Instant Word Recognition Activity
• Ladders Word Activity (Word)   (PDF)
• Multiple Meaning Words
• Vocabulary Cards
• Vocabulary (Six Steps activities)
• Word Wall

4.10 Comprehends selections using a variety of strategies

• Cartoon Comprehension
• Guided Reading
• Monitored Reading
• Q-Matrix
• QAR Questions by Category (WORD)  (PDF)
• QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
• Quad Card (Word) (PDF)
• Questioning Stems (TAKS format) (Word)   (PDF)
• Strategic Reading
• Strategies to "fix up" confusion
• Summary Sheet--Expository--English
• Summary Sheet--Expository--Spanish
• Summary Sheet--Narrative--English
• Summary Sheet--Narrative--Spanish
• Text to Self
• Text to Text
• Text to World
• Text Structure Patterns--English
• Text Structure Patterns--Spanish
• Text Structure Patterns with Graphic Organizers
• Thoughtful Response Guide (Word)

4.11 Expresses/Suppports responses to various types of texts

• Book Chats
• Book Completions
• Comic Summaries
• Journal Response Guides
• Journal Response Ideas (PDF) (Word)
• Spokes (Word)  (PDF)
• Spokes en Espanol (Word)  (PDF)
• Summary Map
• Summary Sheet--Expository--English
• Summary Sheet--Expository--Spanish
• Summary Sheet--Narrative--English
• Summary Sheet--Narrative--Spanish
• Star Summaries
• The Pentad

4.12 Analyzes characteristics of various texts

• Graphic Organizers (English)  (Spanish)
• K-W-L (word)  K-W-L (PDF)
• Say What? (Word)
• TAKS reading terms--definitions and tips (Word)   (PDF)
• TAKS Warm-ups     TAKS Warm-ups (PDF)
• T-Chart
• Text book strategies (Word)   (PDF)
• Thinking Maps
• Venn Diagram

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Publishing

4.15 - 4.20, 4.22

• Buddy Writing
• Coupled Compliments   Coupled Compliments (PDF)            
• Journal cover and pages (Word)   (PDF)
• Journal Response Ideas
• News Writing Ideas (Word)   (PDF)
• Personal Narratives

4.16 Composes original texts, applying the conventions of written language

• Handwriting Continuum
• Macaroni Punctuation

4.17 Spells proficiently

• Dictionary Quartiles
• Discovery Spelling (PDF)

4.18 Applies standard grammar/usage to communicate

• Onomatopoeia Mini Lesson
• Punctuating with "because" (Word)   (PDF)
• Transitions mini-lesson (Word)   (PDF)

4.19 Selects/uses writing process

• Development:  Four Steps to findin g your Message 
• Editing in Collaborative Groups
• Elaborate It!
• Five Minute Brainstorm
• Leads/Introductions (Word)  (PDF)
• Paragraphing mini-lesson (Word)   (PDF)
• Peer Writing Conference Sheet (Word)  (PDF)
• Reference It!
• Revision Activity
• Say What? (Word)
• Six traits--Children's Titles to Teach Traits
• Voice mini-lesson (Word)   (PDF)
• Writers' Log (Word)  (PDF)
• Writing mini lessons--list of topics (Word)   (PDF)

4.20 Evaluates own writing and others'

• Self Evaluation rubric for six traits writing (Word)   (PDF)
• Self Evaluation rubric for revisions (Word)   (PDF)
• TAKS Writing Scoring Guide with sample essays from 2006 (PDF)

• K-W-L (Word)
• K-W-L (PDF)

• Administrative Produre I - M
• Attributes of the 21st Century Learner