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Having Fun with Common Core: Even More Tricky Six

CCSS for ELA Reading Information Text #6
is unlike other standards. It has a very
different focus at each grade level.

For
grade 4, it reads “Compare and contrast a firsthand
and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in
focus and the information provided.” I suggest The Extraordinary
Mark Twain by Barbara Kerley  (illus. Edwin Fotheringham) as a lesson
starter.

This book has two
layers of text, and the second layer is something special—bits and pieces of
Suzy’s diary reproduced in what appears to be a small journal built right into
the book. Your students will really enjoy it before they move on to looking at
other journals or other kinds of firsthand accounts.

Next week, I’ll discuss grade 5.


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