Fourth Grade Moose x Amplify
Strengthen reading and writing skills through the practice of editing and revision as students explore bigger, more complicated ideas in social studies and literature.
The Amplify Fourth Grade CKLA Units guide students to strengthen their reading comprehension and writing skills with a focus on literary elements and narrative structure. Students read more complex fiction and non-fiction texts and respond to these texts with longer pieces of writing that are improved with editing and revision. Student vocabulary continues to build through an exploration of topics including personal narrative, poetry, inventors, geology, and the American Revolution. As students investigate bigger, more complicated ideas such as how writers reflect their unique views of the world, how the rock cycle has shaped the earth, and how a revolution can create a new country, Moose x Amplify lessons reinforce ELA learning objectives while providing relevant New Hampshire connections.
Amplify Knowledge Domain | Amplify Lesson | Objective Connection | Moose Lesson | More to Explore |
Unit 1: Personal Narrative | Intro to Unit 4 | Students will identify sensory details in a text. | MxA Lesson: Stormy Stories | Do It! Activity: Crazy Storm Stories |
Lesson 4: Sensory Details | Students will identify sensory details in a text. Students will write a paragraph using sensory details. | MxA Lesson: A Sense of Place | ||
Unit 3: Poetry | Lesson 1: "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" | Students will identify contextual evidence and determine the implicit and explicit meanings. | MxA Lesson: Prize-Winning New Hampshire Poets | |
Lesson 7: "I Hear America Singing" | Students will identify how Whitman characterizes America and make inferences about what Whitman most values about the nation. | MxA Lesson: "Ox Cart Man" | ||
Lesson 10: "Words as Free Confetti" | Students will identify and create examples of alliteration. | MxA Lesson: Two Poets, One Season | ||
Lesson 11: "Fog" | Students identify and extend metaphor (i.e., personification) and explain its various details. | MxA Lesson: "A Brook in the City" | ||
Unit 4: Eureka! | Lesson 2: Those Fascinating Judges | Students will complete close reads of several inventor biographies and will be able to summarize, refer to details, and draw inferences from these texts. | MxA Lesson: The Invention of Video Games | |
Lesson 3: Lovin' the Lightbulb | Students will read complex informational texts about major inventions and discuss their development and impact. | Lesson 11.1: Water Power | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 11: Big Factories and New Industries Primary Source Set: Amoskeag Manufacturing Company | |
Lesson 4: Speaking with Style | Students will describe the chronology, causes, and effects of inventions. | Lesson 11.1: Water Power (cont.) | ||
Lesson 5: Invention Breeds Invention | Students will analyze simple machines. | Lesson 11.1: Water Power (cont.) | ||
Lesson 8: Why We Invent | Using examples from history and their own experiences, students will write an opinion piece on the usefulness of failure in the inventing process. | MxA Lesson: Dean Kaman and DEKA | ||
Unit 5: Geology Check out Moose Unit 1: Geography for related resources | Lesson 8: Three Types of Rock and the Rock Cycle and Lesson 9: Rocks and the Rock Cycle | Students will identify rocks as solids made of minerals, describe the formation and characteristics of three types, and explain how the rock cycle causes long-term changes. Students apply knowledge of rock types to New Hampshire rocks, specifically granite. | MxA Lesson: | |
Lesson 11: Weathering and Erosion, Part 2 | Students will describe processes of weathering and erosion and identify geologic features that provide evidence of these forces. | Lesson 1.3: New Hampshire's Land | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 12: Mountains | Students will describe how mountains are formed, identify different types of mountains, and locate major mountain ranges on a map. Students will plan for writing a descriptive paragraph about a rock or other item in the rock cycle. | MxA Lesson: | ||
Unit 7: The American Revolution Check out Moose Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution for related resources | Lesson 1: The French and Indian War Brings Change | Students will justify colonists' growing discontent and anger toward Great Britain by referring to details and examples in lesson text. | MxA Lesson: | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution Video: Mason Explains: The Causes of the American Revolution |
Lesson 2: Boycotts and Protests | Students will explain how to use cause and effect to describe events that led to the American Revolution. | Lesson 5.2: Revolutionary Taxes | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 3: Voices of Discontent | Using close reading strategies, students will deepen their understanding of the colonists' growing discontent and anger toward Great Britain by studying vocabulary and idioms contained in the lesson text. | Lesson 5.1: Why Did We Have a Revolution? | ||
Lesson 4: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death | Students will use the lesson text and additional sources to understand how the Intolerable Acts imposed on Massachusetts by the British precipitated the American Revolution. Students will use cause-and-effect text structure and paragraph writing skills to describe what gave rise to the French and Indian War. | MxA Lesson: Pine Tree Riot and Boston Tea Party | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 6: Declaring Independence | Students will use evidence from the lesson text to explain the process by which the colonists declared independence from Great Britain and the reasons they presented to justify their decision. | Lesson 5.3: Who Declared Independence | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution Do It! Activity: The Thirteen Colonies | |
Lesson 7: A Final Separation | Through close reading of the lesson text, students will evaluate the political choices available to colonial leaders during the tumultuous war with Great Britain. | Lesson 5.4: Divided New Hampshire | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 8: The Continental Army's Plight | Understand the strategic and physical challenges colonial soldiers faced as local militias combined to form the Continental Army. | MxA Lesson: John Stark and George Washington | Primary Source Set: | |
Lesson 11: Five Years and 700 Miles | Understand the scope of the Revolutionary War, the timeframe and physical area, and the various nations involved. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Fights | Video: Mason Explains: Fighting the American Revolution | |
Lesson 12: A Country of Idealists | Students make inferences from lesson text to evaluate the acts of lesser-known individuals involved in the American Revolution. | Lesson 5.5: Who Took Part in the American Revolution? | Do It! Activity: Write a Letter to a Soldier Do It! Activity: Events of the American Revolution | |
Lesson 16: An Allegory of Independence | Students will compare and contrast Rip Van Winkle's outlook before the Revolutionary War (before he fell asleep) and beyond the Revolutionary War (after he woke from his 20-year slumber). Students will develop and strengthen cause-and-effect essays as needed by planning, revising, and editing. | Lesson 5.6: Summative Project: Revolutionary News |