4th Grade
Courses & Curriculum
English and Language Arts
Reading Wonders – McGraw Hill
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Read across the curriculum in all subjects with solid comprehension skills.•
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Fluency: Be able to read at least 105 words per minute expressively by the end of 4th grade.
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Retell and sequence events of a text
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Answer a variety of comprehension questions to show understanding of a text.
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Be able to identify different reading genres, including poems and plays
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Be able to punctuate sentences, including dialogue, correctly
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Use tenses appropriately
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Identify pronouns, articles, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and be able to use them correctly.
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Be familiar with contractions, possessives, and the use of apostrophes and commas.
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Be able to identify sentence types – declarative, interrogative, command, exclamation
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Write in a variety of non-fiction writing formats – persuasive, instructional, informational, letters, etc.
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Be able to draft, redraft and publish a piece of writing
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Write sequentially with main events/points in a logical order
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Develop good self-check methods in order to proof read their own work
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Be able to write a paragraph.
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Write a 5-paragraph paper.
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Mathematics
My Math – McGraw Hill
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Know and be able to read and write, place value to millions
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Have a quick recall of times table facts to at least 10 X 10
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Divide 4 digit numbers by one digit numbers
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Multiplying with double digit multipliers
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Be able to solve one and two step word problem.
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Add and subtract numbers up to the ten thousands place value
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Add and subtract decimals, and compare decimals and fractions
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Add and subtract like and unlike denominators
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Simplify fractions
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Find simple fractions of numbers
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Find equivalent fractions
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Order fractions according to size
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Read and interpret a variety of charts and tables,
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know how to calculate mean, mode and range,
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Be able to create bar charts, line graphs and pictographs
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Calculate simple probability outcomes, (e.g. likely, less likely, impossible, etc.).
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Be able to recognize common 2D and 3D shapes
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Find the area and perimeter of regular shapes
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Know and be able to calculate the radius, diameter and circumference of circles
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Identify acute, right and obtuse angles
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Know standard and metric measurements for capacity, weight, volume, and length,
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Be able to tell and add/subtract time,
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Convert measurements (e.g. hours to minutes, gallons to pints, etc.)
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