Grade 4 – Unit 5

Fireflies and Flowers

Light up your classroom with this ONlit Learning Through Literacy Releasing Writers-inspired unit.

This unit begins with an engaging comic about living things and how they emit or reflect light. Fireflies and Flowers is directly connected to the Ontario Grade 4 Science curriculum, comparing different living things and how they interact with light.

This unit also includes explicit vocabulary instruction and focused syntax support, teaching students how to write complex sentences using independent and dependent clauses, and includes an additional morphology connection.

Structured Writing Cycle

Fireflies and Flowers

• Mentor Text – Fireflies and Flowers
• Educator Resource – Structured Writing
  • Instructional Slide Deck – Structured Writing
  • Instructional Slide Deck – Vocabulary
  • Colour Coded and Student Exemplars
  • Student Writing Page with Prompts

General Resources

• Learning Through Literacy Grade 4 Overview