• Fourth-Grade Learning Objectives
     

    Reading

    Reading Process (Comprehension, Vocabulary, Connections, & Independent Reading)

    • Draw conclusions and infer by referencing textual evidence of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
    • Draw conclusions by providing textual evidence of what the text says explicitly
    • Monitor comprehension and making corrections and adjustments when understanding breaks down
    • Determine the meaning of academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic root words and their prefixes and suffixes
    • Use the context of the sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words
    • Complete analogies
    • Identify the meaning of common idioms and figurative language
    • Use a dictionary or glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of unknown words
    • Use conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases
    • Connect text to text (ideas and information in various fiction and nonfiction works, using compare and contrast)
    • Connect text to world (text ideas regarding experiences inthe world by demonstrating an awareness that literature reflects a cultural and historical time frame)
    • Read text that is developmentally appropriate
    • Produce evidence of reading

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Fiction, Poetry, & Drama

    • Summarize and sequence the events/plot, explain how past events impact future events, and identify the theme
    • Describe the personality traits of characters from their thoughts, words, and actions
    • Describe the interaction of characters, including relationships and how they change
    • Compare and contrast the adventures or exploits of characters and their roles
    • Compare and contrast the point of view from which stories are narrated; explain whether the narrator or speaker of a story is first or third person
    • Explain structural elements of poetry
    • Analyze how characters change from the beginning to the end of a play or film
    • Explain structural elements of dramatic literature

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Nonfiction

    • Use multiple text features to locate information and gain an overview of the contents of text
    • Describe the sequence of events, ideas, concepts, or steps needed to carry out a procedure
    • Interpret and explain factual information presented graphically
    • Explain similarities and differences between the events and characters’ experiences in a fictional work and the actual events and experiences described in an author’s biography or autobiography
    • Analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about persuasive text; use evidence from the text to explain the author’s purpose; and support the analysis
    • Explain how an author uses language to present information to influence what the reader thinks or does
    • Distinguish fact from opinion in a text and explain how to verify what is a fact
    • Explain explicit and implicit relationships among ideas in texts
    • Explain author’s purpose
    • Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic

    Media Literacy

    • Explain the positive and negative impacts of advertisement techniques used in various genres of media to impact consumer behavior
    • Explain how various design techniques used in media influence the message
    • Compare various written conventions used for digital media
    • Explain text structures and graphics features of a web page and how they help readers to comprehend text

    Reading Foundations

    Phonics

    • Decode words using knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context
    • Read root words, prefixes, and suffixes and important words from specific content curricula
    • K-5 Phonics Scope and Sequence

    Fluency

    • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary

    Writing

    Writing Process

    • Select a genre appropriate for conveying the purpose to an intended audience
    • Formulate questions related to the topic
    • Access prior knowledge or building background knowledge related to the topic
    • Use a prewriting strategy
    • Generate a main idea to support a multiple-paragraph text, using a variety of sentence types, including compound
    • Establish and support a main idea with an overall topic sentence at, or near, the beginning of the first paragraph
    • Categorize, organize, and sequence facts, details, and/or events into a text (from sources when appropriate) into clear introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs
    • Address an appropriate audience
    • Develop and strengthen writing by revising: main idea, sequence (ideas), focus, beginning/middle/end, details/facts (from multiple sources, when appropriate), word choice (related to the topic), sentence structure, transitions, audience and purpose, voice
    • Edit for language conventions
    • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing
    • Demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page, ideally in a single sitting

    Write Opinion Texts

    • Introduce a topic or text being studied, using an introductory paragraph
    • State an opinion or establish a position and provide reasons for the opinion/position supported by facts and details
    • Use specific and accurate words that are related to the topic, audience, and purpose
    • Contain information using student’s original language except when using direct quotation from a source
    • Reference the name of the author(s) or name of the source used for details or facts included in the text
    • Use transitions to connect opinion and reason
    • Organize the supporting details/reasons into introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs

    Write Informative/Explanatory Texts

    • Introduce a topic using a topic sentence in an introductory paragraph
    • Develop the topic into supporting paragraphs from sources, using topic sentences with facts, details, examples, and quotations
    • Use specific, relevant,and accurate words that are suited to the topic, audience, and purpose
    • Contain information using student’s original language except when using direct quotations from a source
    • Use transitions to connect categories of information
    • Use text structures when useful
    • Create a concluding paragraph related to the information

    Write Fiction or Nonfiction Narratives and Poems

    • Establish a setting and situation/topic and introduce a narrator and/or characters
    • Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, motivation,and descriptions
    • Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to establish a beginning/middle/end
    • Use a variety of transitions to manage the sequence of events
    • Use specific, relevant, and accurate words that are suited to the topic, audience, and purpose

    Research Process

    • Generate a list of subject-appropriate topics
    • Create a research question to address relevant to a chosen topic
    • Identify a variety of relevant sources, literary and informational
    • Use organizational features of print and digital sources efficiently to locate information
    • Convert graphic/visual data into written notes
    • Determine the accuracy of the information gathered
    • Differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using ideas of others
    • Record bibliographic information from sources according to a standard format
    • Present and evaluate how completely, accurately, and efficiently the research question was explored or answered using previously established teacher/student criteria

    Language

    Grammar

    • Use the “be” helping verbs with “ing” verbs
    • Use and order adjectives within sentences to conventional patterns
    • Use progressive verbs to show past, present, and future
    • Use adverbs in writing
    • Use subject/verb agreement with 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person pronouns
    • Use prepositions correctly in a sentence
    • Recognize the difference between and use coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions
    • Produce and expand the complete simple and compound four types of sentences
    • Correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences in writing

    Conventions

    • Write legibly
    • Punctuate a dialogue between two or more characters
    • Insert a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence
    • Capitalize proper adjectives
    • Use correct capitalization
    • Spell words with suffixes by dropping or leaving the final e
    • Spell words ending in the long e sound
    • Alphabetize reference sources
    • Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (roots, affixes) to read and spell accurately unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context

    Speaking & Listening

    Listening

    • Follow, generate, and justify classroom listening rules
    • Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, make comments that contribute to the discussion, and link to the remarks of others
    • Follow and restate multi-step instructions that involve a short related sequence of actions, according to classroom expectations
    • Generate and follow active listening rules, according to classroom expectations

    Speaking

    • Contribute to discussion after listening to others’ ideas, according to classroom expectations
    • Express opinions of read-alouds and independent reading and relating opinion to others

    Presenting

    • Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
    • Use efficient presentation skills with available resources
    • Incorporate descriptive and sequential details in a student-designed or teacher-assigned topic
    • Give a formal presentation to classmates, using a variety of media
    • Speak with expression and fluency
    • Adjust formal/informal language according to context and topic