Fourth Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Retells and/or summarizes text including characters, settings, and events
- Compares and contrasts details within text(s)
- Asks and answers inferential questions about text(s) and supports them with evidence
- Identifies literary elements (i.e., author’s purpose, cause/effect, main idea/theme, etc.)
- Uses text features to gain meaning when reading nonfiction text (i.e., captions, diagrams, etc.)
- Uses comprehension strategies to understand fiction and nonfiction text
Foundations of Reading
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Applies word analysis skills (synonyms, antonyms, affixes, etc.)
- Uses vocabulary strategies including context clues to determine the meaning of new words
Writing
- Writes for different purposes: Narrative, Opinion, Informative
- Applies components to create a focused and organized piece of writing (introduction, conclusion, supporting details)
- Strengthens writing by planning, revising, editing, and publishing
- Uses research to build and present knowledge
Language
- Capitalizes words as needed
- Writes using varied types of sentences
- Uses punctuation correctly (including commas and quotation marks)
- Uses parts of speech correctly (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)
- Writes using complete sentences (subject/verb agreement)
Speaking and Listening
- Effectively engages in discussions within a group
Handwriting
- Forms cursive letters correctly
- Writes clearly and legibly
Word Study (Spelling)
- Applies word study skills in daily writing
- Spells words in isolation (differentiated BEAR assessments)
Math
- Performs operations with multi-digit whole numbers
- Understands multi-digit place value
- Knows multiplication and division facts fluently
- Multiplies two-digit by two-digit numbers
- Understands factors and multiples
- Divides by a one-digit divisor
- Understands decimal place value to the hundredths
- Demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between fractions and decimals
- Demonstrates an understanding of equivalent fractions
- Compares and orders fractions
- Adds and subtracts fractions with like denominators
- Solves word problems using fractions
- Solves multi-step word problems
- Creates and understands number patterns
- Identifies and draws various types of lines and angles
- Identifies, describes, and classifies quadrilaterals
- Solves problems involving measurement
- Converts one measure of time to another
- Represents and interprets data
Social Studies
- Analyzes the physical, cultural, political, economic, and historic features and places of the regions of the United States
- Examines Native American groups and European explorations and settlements impacting the development of the major regions of the United States
Science
- Demonstrates how the positions and motion of objects can be changed
- Engages in investigations concerning electricity, heat, sound, and light
- Understands how organisms have structures that enable them to function in unique and specific ways
- Understands earth’s materials consist of rock, soils, water and air
- Conducts investigations on the effects of water, ice, wind, and vegetation on the relative rate of weathering and erosion
- Understands that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and nonrenewable resources and how their uses affect the environment
- Compares multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information (i.e., communication transferred through cell phones and computers)