Grade 4 - Literary Checklist

Grade 4: Quarter 1 Reading
Reading Group:__________________________
Comprehension of Literary Text
Student
Determining the important ideas, messages and
universal themes from instructional level text by
flexible use of strategies (inferencing,
determining importance, self-monitoring,
predicting, questioning, visualizing, summarizing)
)
Assessment
Name
Date
Analyzing the plot through the characters
behaviors (dialogue, internal thoughts, actions,
motives, emotions)
Explaining the author’s craft by examining
figurative language (simile, metaphor,
personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration,
exaggeration) and specific words the author uses
to create sensory images to evoke feeling
Assessments that cover all three
content-specific statements