Overview

Students in 4th grade experience a balance of literature and informational texts to engage with a variety of topics and have discussions about texts that support language development and knowledge building. Formats include read-alouds, shared readings, independent readings and other learning activities that incorporate literacy materials, talking, and writing to make meaning of increasingly complex text. Students in 4th grade will write for multiple purposes (to entertain, to explain, to persuade) and learn about various tools (print and digital) to produce, share, and publish writing. In all writing tasks, students will learn to use and to adjust language to best communicate ideas, content, and message to readers, being clear on the distinction between conversational and academic language and their purposes and use.

Fall Semester: 

1. Reading Focus Skills
   1. Fluency and Reading Rate
   2. Annotation
   3. Reading Strategies for Comprehension Peer Discussion
   4. Subjects and Predicates
   5. Making Logical Inferences
   6. Make Predictions
   7. Identify Themes
   8. Word Decoding (focus on vowels & context clues)
   9. Cite Details & Text-Based Evidence from a Reading Passage
   10. Sentence Identification & Variety Content Related Vocabulary
   11. Text Features
   12. Charts & Graphics
   13. Central Idea
   14. Increase Vocabulary
   15. Verb Usage to Recognize Tense
   16. Point of View
   17. Author’s Craft
   18. Plot Structure
   19. Features of an Argumentative Piece
2. Writing Focus Skills
   1. Narrative Writing
   2. Writing Introduction
   3. Body and Conclusion
   4. Introduction to Dialogue
   5. Informational Writing
   6. Transition Words
   7. Sequence
   8. Author’s Purpose & Audience
   9. Writing Claims and Develop Opinions with Support and Evidence
   10. Sentence Complexity
   11. Summaries
   12. Spelling using vowel sounds
   13. Capitalization
   14. Editing and Revising a Piece of Writing
   15. Peer Feedback
   16. Prefixes
   17. Homonyms
   18. Verb Tense

Standards

Winter Semester: 

1. Reading Focus Skills
   1. Identification of a Theme
   2. Point of View
   3. Vowel Sounds
   4. Homographs and Homophones
   5. Scripts for a Play
   6. Singular and Plural Nouns
   7. Text-Based Evidence
   8. Decoding Multisyllabic Words
   9. Biographies
   10. -ed and -ing Endings
   11. Poetry, Central Idea
   12. Charts, Graphs
   13. and Diagrams
2. Writing Focus Skills
   1. Pronouns
   2. Prepositional Phrases
   3. Proofreading and Revising
   4. Conducting Research
   5. Adjectives
   6. Formal and Informal Language
   7. Poetry
   8. Writing a Claim on an Opinion
   9. Sequence, Cause and Effect
   10. Problem and Solution, Apostrophes
   11. Conclusions, Inferences
   12. Paraphrasing, Poetry, Adverbs
   13. Letter Writing
   14. Helping Verbs

Standards

Spring Semester:

1. Reading Focus Skills 
   1. Themes, Central / Main Idea
   2. Tall Tales, Characters
   3. Idioms & Adages
   4. Figurative Language
   5. Predictions
   6. Citing Text-Based Evidence
   7. Decoding Multisyllabic
   8. Prefixes
   9. Compare and Contrast
   10. Compare Point of View
   11. Author’s Claims
   12. Charts & Graphics
   13. Context Clues
   14. Inferences
   15. Syllable Division
   16. Analogies, Idioms
   17. Dictionaries & the Thesaurus
   18. Inference, Synthesize Information
   19. Claims
   20. Text Structure
2. Writing Focus Skills
   1. Edit
   2. Revise & Publish
   3. Writing Inferences with Evidence
   4. Unusual Spelling Patterns
   5. Opinion Writing
   6. Expository Writing, Research
   7. Pronouns
   8. Organization of Information
   9. Writing Arguments
   10. Abbreviations, Addresses
   11. Transition Words
   12. Narrative Writing
   13. Capitalization
   14. Possessive Pronouns
   15. Comma
   16. Punctuation for Effect
   17. Note Taking
   18. Summarizing
   19. Silent Letters
   20. Contractions

Standards

Fall Semester

Standards:4R1, 4R2, 4R3, 4R4, 4R5, 4R6, 4R7, 4R8, 4R9, 4W1, 4W1b, 4W1c, 4W2, 4W2a, 4W3, 4W3c, 4W3d, 4RF3, 4RF4, 4RF4a, 4SL1, 4L3, 4L4, 4W2, 4W2e, 4W3b, 4W3c

Winter Semester

Standards:4R1, 4R2, 4R3, 4R4, 4R5, 4R5a, 4R5c, 4R6, 4R7, 4R8, 4L3, 4L4, 4L4c, 4L5, 4L6, 4L7, 4RF4, 4SL1, 4SL2, 4SL3, 4SL4, 4SL5, 4SL6, 4W1, 4W1a, 4W1b, 4W1c, 4W1d, 4W2, 4W4, 4W5, 4W6, 4SL4, 4SL5

Spring Semester

Standards:4R1, 4R2, 4R3, 4R4, 4R4c, 4R5, 4R5b, 4R7, 4SL1, 4L4, 4L4b, 4L4c, 4L5, 4L5b, 4L5, 4W1, 4W2, 4W3, 4L3, 4L4b, 4L5c, 4RF3, 4RF4a, 4W1, 4W2, 4W3