NY Next Generation ELA KR4

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The Standard

Identify specific words that express feelings and senses.

New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students notice words that name or suggest feelings and sensory experiences. They connect those words to emotions or what can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched.
What Mastery Looks Like: The student points to a feeling or sensory word and explains it with a picture, gesture, or simple phrase. The response fits the word’s use in the text.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name their own feeling without locating a text word. They may use the illustration alone and overlook the author’s language.
How to Assess It: Read several short sentences aloud. Ask the student to identify one feeling word and one sensory word and show what each means.

Lesson moves

Sort picture and word cards into feeling, sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch groups.
Ask students what they imagine when they hear a word such as crunchy or chilly.
Play Feeling and Sense Charades with words from a read-aloud.
Collect words that describe how the classroom sounds, feels, and looks.

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