4th grade ELA Performance Task | Eating Insects

This ELA performance task will help your 4th grade students practice reading multiple texts on a topic, answer questions about the sources, and write from the sources. This performance task mimics the performance tasks given on Common Core-aligned standardized assessments (SBAC, CAASPP, PARCC).

Your students will read three informational articles from NewsELA about using insects as a source of food. They will then answer three questions about the text before writing an essay. Writing prompts are included for all three genres (informational, opinion, and narrative).

You will need a PAID NewsELA account to access the articles for this product.

Take advantage of kids' natural curiosity about things outside their norm with this text set about eating insects-using a topic they want to read about helps hook kids into the task!

This performance task resource includes:

• Links to 3 NewsELA articles
• 3 questions about the sources (2 short answer and one chart)
• 3 writing tasks (opinion, informational, and narrative)
• An answer key for the three questions
• Student direction pages that mimic what students see on standardized tests