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TUMBLETA | GRADE 4 ELA | REGIONAL STANDARDS EDITION
New Hampshire
New Hampshire College and Career Ready Standards — English Language Arts/Literacy
LESSON
How One Event Changes What Can Happen
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Black Beauty
TEACHES
RL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
WHY THIS EARNS THE STANDARD
Deterministic Grade 4 mapping for frameworks with identical Grade 4 standard text.
The canonical lesson that follows is unchanged. This cover is an additive curriculum-placement layer.
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TUMBLETA | GRADE 4 ELA | STANDALONE SKILL LESSON
How One Event Changes What Can Happen
Next
Black Beauty
20 minutes
OBJECTIVE
Order a short episode and explain how one event changes the possible outcome of the next event.
STUDENT PRODUCT
A three-step event chain plus a because/therefore explanation.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How does the broken-bridge information change the meaning of Black Beauty's refusal to move forward?
TEXT FOCUS
The flooded-bridge episode.
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LESSON SEQUENCE
- 1.Order | 3 min Place the refusal, new information, and final response in order.
- 2.Before the information | 4 min State what the refusal might look like at first.
- 3.After the information | 5 min Explain how the bridge news changes the reader's understanding.
- 4.Cause statement | 6 min Write how one event prevents or changes what could happen next.
- 5.Check | 2 min Your explanation must depend on the sequence.
TEACHER KEY / EXPECTED THINKING
Beauty's refusal first appears obstructive, but the broken-bridge information reveals it as protective;
the new information changes both the next action and the meaning of the earlier event.
LOOK FOR
- Orders events correctly.
- Explains how later information changes interpretation.
- Connects sequence to outcome.
TumbleTA | Grade 4 ELA | Canonical standalone skill lesson
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