READING: Comprehension, Expository Texts

ELA Standards Grade 4

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

2.1: Identify the structural patterns found in informational text (e.g., compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequential or chronological order, proposition and support) to strengthen comprehension. 2.3: Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior knowledge and ideas presented in the text itself, including illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and foreshadowing clues. 2.5: Compare and contrast information on the same topic after reading several passages or articles. 2.6: Identify fact/opinion, cause and effect in expository text.

ELD Standards Grade 4 – Beginning Level

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

(2.1) RECOMMENDED: Identify fact/opinion, cause and effect in expository text using gestures or other non-verbal response. (2.3) Orally identify relationship between simple text read to them and their own experience using key words and/or phrases. (2.5) Respond orally to stories read to them by answering questions, using one- or two-word responses (e.g., “brown bear”). (2.6) RECOMMENDED: Respond orally to expository text read to them, signaling whether events are true/false.

Grade 4 – Early Intermediate Level

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

(2.1) Orally identify the basic sequence of written text using simple sentences. (2.3) Read and orally identify relationships between written text and their own experience using simple sentences. (2.5) Read and listen to simple stories and demonstrate understanding by using simple sentences to respond to explicit detailed questions (e.g., “The bear is brown.”). RECOMMENDED: Use expository passages to gather information about a subject. (2.6) Orally identify examples of fact/opinion in familiar texts read to them.

Grade 4 – Intermediate Level

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

(2.1) RECOMMENDED: Use graphic organizers to compare and contrast information about content area subjects such as: · California immigrants · Planets in the solar system · Weather data collected over a period of time (2.3) Read and use more detailed sentences to orally describe relationships between text and their own experiences. RECOMMENDED: Locate topic sentences in content area text. Identify text features authors use to organize information in content areas (titles, subtitles, topic sentences, bold, italic). (2.5) Use detailed sentences to orally respond to comprehension questions about written text (e.g., The brown bear lives with his family in the forest.”). RECOMMENDED: Use expository passages to locate, then graphically represent similarities about a subject. (2.6) Read and orally identify examples of fact/opinion and cause/effect in literature and content area texts.

Grade 4 – Early Advanced Level

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

(2.1) Identify some significant structural (organizational) patterns in text, such as sequence/chronological order, and cause/effect. (2.3) Describe relationships between text and their experience. RECOMMENDED: Use own experiences to predict what may happen given certain conditions in science or social studies. (2.5) RECOMMENDED: Use expository passages to locate, then graphically represent similarities and differences about a subject. (2.6) Distinguish between explicit examples of facts, opinions, inference, and cause/effect texts. RECOMMENDED: Use expository text for examples.

Grade 4 – Advanced Level

READING: Comprehension Expository Texts

(2.1) ELA 2.1 (2.3) ELA 2.3 (2.5) RECOMMENDED: Make an oral presentation after creating a graphic representation comparing and contrasting information about a subject. (2.6) Distinguish between fact/opinion, inference, and cause/effect in text. RECOMMENDED: Use expository text for examples.