How this resource helps
Combine Ideas About Bird Feeding develops North Carolina Grade 4 RI.4.9: integrate information from two texts to write or speak knowledgeably. This 100-page printable packet includes the complete 1,001-word Wildlife in a City Pond and the complete 238-word MAIN reading of Why Do Sunbirds Eat All Day? The whole Sunbirds book and supplemental facts sidebar are not included. Both selections are text-only; source artwork is omitted. Both mentor texts appear in other resources. This new pairing and fresh integration work use finite, recurring facts; the bank does not offer 60 unique facts or 60 unmodeled performances. A narrow gathering-food model and familiar scaffolds are identified. Select useful tasks, record prior models/choices/content support, and collect actual connected learner explanations. No independent reading-band certification, guaranteed mastery or unseen-text transfer is claimed. The Pond account is historical, not current legal/ecological status. Keep the simplified energy/fat explanation explicitly scoped to what the Sunbirds author explains about sunbirds, not all birds or human diet advice. Do not infer sunbirds at Flapshell Pond, every bird eats every food, or reeds are proven duck food. Source invitations are preserved reading material only: no fieldwork, feeding, fasting, capture, torch use, official contact or photo/location sharing is assigned. Text A: Wildlife in a City Pond, Ashish Kothari; original illustrator Sangeetha Kadur (art omitted). © Pratham Books, 2014. Supported by Parag (Promoting Innovative Publishing in Education), a Sir Ratan Tata Trust Initiative. Exact later 23-page English StoryWeaver edition: https://freekidsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/9819-wildlife-in-a-city-pond.pdf . Text B: Why Do Sunbirds Eat All Day?, Anusha Shankar; original illustrator Harjyot Khalsa (art omitted). © Pratham Books, 2020. Supported by CISCO. Guest Editor Ashwitha Jayakumar; Guest Art Director Shreyas R Krishnan. https://data.booksie.org/pratham-books/123172-why-do-sunbirds-eat-all-day.pdf . Both exact editions license the selections CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Source words/order preserved with whitespace/layout normalization and added locators; original teaching material/design added. Saint Pierre restrictions apply only to original additions, not CC source texts; no additional restrictions or DRM may limit their licensed rights. No author, illustrator, publisher, funder, editor or NC DPI endorsement implied. NC 2017 RI.4.9 applies in 2026–27. The new standard is not silently substituted.
What’s Included
- 100-page printable PDF
- Complete Wildlife in a City Pond: 1,001 words
- Complete Sunbirds MAIN reading: 238 words, NOT the whole book
- 30 four-option multiple-choice and 30 open-response opportunities
- Five daily targets and seven concrete teaching scripts
- Bounded integration model and two organizers
- All answer explanations, criteria, rubric and observation record
- Precise source credits, CC reuse boundaries and full font notices
- 100 ordered SAMPLE store previews; not extra buyer downloads
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Grade 4
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 100 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Read all 1,239 source words with support before the selected 80-minute core: 8 warm-up, 12 model, 15 guided, 13 collaboration, 17 individual, 10 intervention, 5 exit. Select a manageable part of the 60-task bank; extend or split for reading/access/thinking. Not a one-session all-bank assignment.
- Answer key
- All 30 MC keys have grounded explanations; all 30 open tasks have possible responses and criteria. Assess meaningful information from both sources working together in a coherent explanation, not simply two summaries or stock connecting phrases. Accept defensible alternatives; no fixed length, exact quotations, mandatory chart, partner or revision requirement.
Standard or objective
RI.4.9