Fourth Grade Learning Objectives:

Language Arts

Reading - The learner will:

• Read aloud grade-level –appropriate text with fluency and accuracy from at least 140 correct words per minute

• Identify common root words, prefixes and suffixes, including Greek and Latin derivatives to determine meaning of unknown words

• Use context clues to develop an understanding of new words

• Identify narrative story elements (character, setting, and plot) 

• Acquire skills for comprehending literary text.

• Identify main ideas and signal words to summarize information from expository text

• Identify cause and effect relationships in text  by responding to “why,” how,” and “what if” questions

• Draw conclusions based on information gathered from text

• Follow multi-step written directions

• Identify and use graphic features that support text meaning (e.g. diagrams, maps, charts, illustrations)

• State author’s main purpose for writing various texts

• Distinguish between facts and opinions in expository text to support comprehension

• Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones and homographs to develop an understanding of new words

• Identify defining characteristics of literature genres, including poetry

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Writing Components - The learner will:

• Write fluently and legibly in cursive

• Spell correctly Grade 4 high-frequency words and common content area words

• Apply spelling rules appropriately to spell accurately

• Use simple and complex sentences

• Identify—future verb tenses, adjectives, personal pronouns, conjunctions

• Correctly punctuate and capitalize titles, books, and geographical names

• Identify comma use in a direct address and in compound sentences

 

Writing Process - The learner will:

• use  “Six  + One Traits of Writing” and the writing process to acquire writing skills

• generate ideas using prewriting strategies

• use organizational strategies appropriate for writing

• use ideas generated and organized in prewriting to write a draft that includes a main idea and details

• use strategies to guide the revision process

• be able to use similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personification in his/her writing

• identify and add transition words to clarify

• rearrange words and sentences as needed to clarify meaning

• edit the draft using an editing checklist with common editing marks

• publish writing in an appropriate format for the purpose and audience

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Math

Learners will be able to:

• Read, write, compare, and order whole numbers to 100,000 (and commonly used fractions with pictorial representation)

• Identify and apply place value in whole numbers

• Use decimal numbers with money (Count the value a of a collection of bills and coins up to $100.00)

• Recall multiplication and division facts quickly and accurately  from 0-10

• Multiply up to two-digit by two-digit whole numbers and divide whole numbers by one-digit divisors

• Add and subtract whole numbers up to 3 digits with and without regrouping

• Select and use  appropriate operations to solve word problems and show or explain work

• Show relationships between division and multiplication using fact families

• Understand and use U.S. customary and metric measurements. (degrees, inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, ounces, pound, tons, grams, kilograms)

• Add and subtract fractions with like denominators

• Identify, compare, and analyze attributes of two and three dimensional shapes, including parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines, and develop vocabulary to describe the attributes

• Read and interpret simple tables, charts, bar graphs, and line graphs