Elementary School - Grade 4

Literacy

Reading:

  • Make inferences and predictions based on text
  • Describe an event from different points of view
  • Role play characters from stories; dramatize stories
  • Learn about different cultures through literature and discussion
  • Identify and explain the purpose of the dialect of a literary character
  • Use known parts of words, word segmentation and syllabication to decode and understand new words
  • Make generalizations about content read
  • Relate reading to personal experience, other literature
  • Distinguish theme from topic
  • Analyze and respond to poems
  • Identify a stanza in poetry
  • Identify a theme in a poem and provide evidence form the text

Writing:

  • Use dictionary, thesaurus and glossary as reference tools
  • Apply correct spelling of standard English words to writing
  • Use simple and compound sentences in writing
  • Use correct paragraph format
  • Write a descriptive paragraph
  • Use elements of plot, character and setting in writing
  • Identify and use a variety of rhyming patterns in poetry such as end rhyme, free verse, haiku, cinquain, couplets, limericks, acrostic, shape and name
  • Write a composition with a beginning, middle and end
  • Write a persuasive essay
  • Proofread and edit for spelling, mechanics, word usage and sentence structure
  • Edit to add detail to writing
  • Use a variety of graphic organizers
  • Generate an outline
  • Generate questions, take notes and summarize to develop research paper

Grammar

  • Identify and use prefixes, suffixes and root words
  • Make generalizations about English words having similar prefixes and/or roots
  • Identify homographs and homophones
  • Identify and use conjunctions
  • Identify subject and predicate
  • Identify similes, metaphors and personification and use in personal writing

Communication:

  • Demonstrate role of leader, recorder, timekeeper and listener in a student led small group discussion
  • Listen to obtain answers to questions and to obtain general idea
  • Compose questions and conduct interview/survey
  • Demonstrate an understanding of questioning techniques for higher level thinking
  • Give an oral presentation with an awareness of audience and purpose
  • Use non-fictional information to develop a presentation which includes visual aides