4.7.E

ELA4th GradeThe student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

The Standard

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students capture key ideas, questions, reactions, and connections while reading, listening, or viewing. They choose notes, annotations, quickwrites, or sketches that help them understand and remember the source.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student selects useful details rather than copying everything. Their marks or notes show clear thinking, and they can use them to explain the source afterward.
Common Misconceptions: Students may underline nearly every sentence or copy whole sections without thinking. They may also add drawings or comments that are interesting but unrelated to the source.
How to Assess It: Give students a one-paragraph passage. Ask them to mark one key idea, write one question, and add one margin note explaining a connection.

Lesson moves

Give pairs sticky notes to label a short article with one key idea, one question, one connection, and one sketch.
After a read-aloud, ask students which note would help them explain the text tomorrow and why.
Play Note Sort: teams place sample annotations under useful, too vague, copied, or unrelated, then revise one weak note.
Show a weather forecast and have students sketch the prediction, record two facts, and write one question they still have.

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