4th Grade ELA Pacing Guide
Fourth Grade
English/Language Arts
Houghton‐Mifflin Harcourt
Instructional Pacing Guide
Aug. –Sept. / Lesson 1 (Week 1) / Lesson 2 (Week 2) / Lesson 3 (Week 3) / Lesson 4 (Week 4) / Lesson 5 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / Because of Winn-Dixie
Genre: Realistic Fiction / My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Genre: Biography / How Tía Lola Came to Stay
Genre: Realistic Fiction / The Power of W.O.W.!
Genre: Play / Stormalong
Genre: Tall Tale
Connected Text / Because of BookEnds
Genre: Informational Text / Langston Hughes: A Poet and a
Dreamer Genre: Poetry / Pizza Pizzazz
Genre: Informational Text / Knowing Noses: Search-and
-Rescue Dogs
Genre: Informational Text / Hoderi the Fisherman
Genre: Play/Folk Tale
Target Skill / Story Structure
(RL.4.5, RL.4.7)
Point of view
Flashback / Author’s Purpose (RI.4.6)
Explain historical events / Cause and Effect (RL.4.7)
Interpret visuals / Theme / Understanding Characters
Target Strategy / Summarize
Flashback / Monitor/Clarify
Point of View / Visualization
Metaphor / Analyze/Evaluate
Elements of Drama / Infer and Predict
Hyperbole
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Accuracy: Self Correction
(RF.2.4c)
Model with Read Aloud / Phrases pauses
Model with Read Aloud / Accuracy:
Model with Read Aloud / Intonation (RF.2.4b)
Model with Read Aloud / Expression
Model with Read Aloud
Unit 2 / Weekly Focus Lessons ‐ For each lesson, follow the HMH Bridge to CCSS for Days 1 – 5 to ensure that all students are exposed to the instructional shifts required to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.
September – October / Lesson 6 (Week 1) / Lesson 7 (Week 2) / Lesson 8 (Week 3) / Lesson 9 (Week 4) / Lesson 10 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
Genre: Fairy Tale / Coming Distractions:
Questioning Movies
Genre: Informational Text / The Wonder of Animation
Genre: Informational Text / Dear Mr. Winston
Genre: Realistic Fiction / Jose! Born to Dance
Genre: Biography
Connected Text / Storyteller Diane Ferlatte
Informational text / The Wonder of Animation Genre: Informational Text / Sidewalk Artists
Genre: Readers’ Theater / Field Guide to Snakes
of the Southwest Genre: Informational Text / Dance to the Beat
Genre: Poetry
Vocabulary / Rescue, hideous, exploding
Battle, wealthy, refused
Invisible, hired, immense
warrior
Vocabulary Strategies
Suffixes -y, -ous / Entertaining, promote, focus
Advertise, jolts, critics, target
Thrilling, angles, generated
Vocabulary Strategies
Greek and Latin Word Parts
phon, photo, graph, auto, tele / Glorious, studio, concerned
Model, smeared, ruined
Yanked, streak, schedule
Feast
Vocabulary Strategies
Figurative Language (Idioms) / Fault, borrow, reference
Fainted, genuine, local
Apologize, proof, slimy
Insisted
Vocabulary Strategies
Antonyms / Debut, stubborn, Permission, hauling, Mournful, towered
Triumph, discouraged
Toured, border
Vocabulary Strategies
Analogies
Target Skill / Compare & Contrast
Sequence of Events
(RL.4.2, RL.4.5)
(RL.2.4) / Fact and Opinion / Understanding Character / Conclusions and Generalizations / Author’s purpose
Target Strategy / Infer and Predict
Hyperbole / Summarize
Jargon / Visualize
Point of view / Question
Repetition / Analyze/Evaluate
metaphor
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Expression / Phrasing: Punctuation
(RF.4.4b) / Stress / Accuracy: Self‐Correct
(RF.4.4c) / Intonation (RF.4.4b)
Unit 3 / Weekly Focus Lessons ‐ For each lesson, follow the HMH Bridge to CCSS for Days 1 – 5 to ensure that all students are exposed to the instructional shifts required to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.
November -
January / Lesson 11 (Week 1) / Lesson 12 (Week 2) / Lesson 13 (Week 3) / Lesson 14 (Week 4) / Lesson 15 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / The Screech Owl Who
Liked Television
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / The Earth Dragon Awakes
Genre: Historical Fiction / Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / The Life and Times of the Ant
Genre: Informational Text / Ecology for Kids
Genre: Informational Text
Connected Text / In the Wild
Genre: Readers ’Theater / Texas Twisters
Genre: Informational Text / The Coolest Marathon
Genre: Informational Text / The Dove and the Ant
Genre: Fable/ Traditional Tale / Wonderful Weather
Genre: Poetry
Vocabulary / Presence, disbelief, tempted
Biological, endeared, arrangement, pounced
Utter, hastened, incident
Vocabulary Strategies
Suffixes -ful, -less, -ness, -ment / Trembles, wreckage, slab
Possessions, tenement
Crushing, rubble, debris
Timbers, constructed
Vocabulary Strategies
Synonyms / Display, alert, weariness
Fractured, standards, vision
Huddle, graceful, stranded
Concluded
Vocabulary Strategies Greek
and Latin Word Parts spect,
struct, tele, vis / Social, exchanges, excess
Reinforce, storage, transport
Chamber, scarce, obstacles
Transfers
Vocabulary Strategies Suffixes -able, -ible / Organisms, directly, affect
Traces, vast, habitats
Variety, species, banned
Radiation
Vocabulary Strategies Multiple-Meaning Words
Target Skill / Fact and Opinion (RI.4.8) / Sequence of Events / Cause and Effect (RL.4.3) / Text and Graphic Features
(RI.4.5) / Main Idea and Details
(RI.4.2)
Target Strategy / Infer/Predict
Simile / Visualize
Point of View / Summarize
Metaphor / Question
Imagery / Monitor/Clarify
Word Choice
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Phrasing Punctuation / Rate: Adjust Rate to Purpose
(RF.4.4b) / Natural Pauses (RF.4.4b) / Stress
Model with Read Aloud / Expression (RF4.4b)
Unit 4 / Weekly Focus Lessons ‐ For each lesson, follow the HMH Bridge to CCSS for Days 1 – 5 to ensure that all students are exposed to the instructional shifts required to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.
February-
March / Lesson 16 (Week 1) / Lesson 17 (Week 2) / Lesson 18 (Week 3) / Lesson 19 (Week 4) / Lesson 20 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / Riding Freedom
Genre: Historical Fiction / The Right Dog for the Job: Ira’s Path from Service Dog to
Guide Dog
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / Moon Runner
Genre: Realistic Fiction / Harvesting Hope:
The Story of Cesar
Chavez Genre: Biography / Sacagawea
Genre: Biography
Connected Text / Spindletop
Genre: Informational Text / The Sticky Coyote
Genre: Readers’ Theater/Trickster
Tale/Traditional
Tale / A Day for the Moon
Genre: Informational
Text / The Edible Schoolyard
Genre: Informational
Text / Native American Nature Poetry
Genre: Poetry
Vocabulary / Escorted, swelled, Relied, reputation, worthy, churning
Situation, deserve, defended
Satisfied
Context clues / Reward, graduate, symbol
Foster, disobey, confidence
Patiently, confesses, ceremony, performs
Suffixes, -ion, -ation, -ition / Gigantic, miniature, especially
Lapped, vanished, jealous
Haze, lure, deliberately
crisp
Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs / Overcome, association
Capitol, drought, dedicate
Publicity, violence, conflicts
Horizon, brilliant / Territory, accompany
Proposed, interpreter, duty
Supplies, route, corps
Clumsy, landmark
Compound Words
Target Skill / Compare and Contrast
(RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.7) / Sequence of Events (RL.4.2) / Understanding Characters
(RI.4.6) / Persuasion / Main Ideas & Details
Target Strategy / Monitor/Clarify
Personification / Summarize
Word Choice / Question
Point of View / Infer/Predict
Idioms / Visualize
Onomatopoeia
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Rate (RF.2.4b) / Intonation / Accuracy and Self Correction / Stress / Phrasing: Punctuation
Unit 5 / Weekly Focus Lessons ‐ For each lesson, follow the HMH Bridge to CCSS for Days 1 – 5 to ensure that all students are exposed to the instructional shifts required to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.
March – April / Lesson 21 (Week 1) / Lesson 22 (Week 2) / Lesson 23(Week 3) / Lesson 24(Week 4) / Lesson 25 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / The World According to Humphrey
Genre: Fantasy / I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
Genre: Biography / The Ever-Living Tree: The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood
Genre: Informational Text / Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable
Friendship
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / The Fun They Had
Genre: Science Fiction
Connected Text / Make the Switch
Genre: Advertisement / Working for the Vote
Genre: Play / Towering Trees
Genre: Poetry / Sea Sanctuary
Genre: Informational Text / Technology for All Learners
Genre: Informational Text
Vocabulary / Appreciate, blaring, combination, promptly,
Introduce, nocturnal, feats
Effort, suggest, racket / Politics, intelligent
Disorderly, approve, polls
Legislature, amendment
Candidates, informed, denied / Resources, dense, evaporate
Shallow, moisture, civilized
Continent, opportunities
Customs, independent / Bond, suffered, intruder
Companion, enclosure
Inseparable, charged, chief
Exhausted, affection / Progress, calculated, dispute
Centuries, superior, insert
Waste, inspector, mechanical
average
Target Skill / Theme (RI4.8)
Conclusions (RL.2.1, RL.2.7) / Cause and Effect (RI.4.8)
Author’s Purpose (RI.2.6) / Text and Graphic Features (RI.4.4) / Compare & Contrast (RL.4.3) / Author Purpose (RL.4.6)
Target Strategy / Summarize, idioms / Infer/Predict, idioms / Monitor/Clarify, Similes / Analyze/Evaluate. Word Choice / Question, Tone
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Accuracy: Connected Text
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Phrasing: Natural Pauses
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Stress (RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Intonation
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Rate: Adjust Rate to Purpose
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b)
Unit 6 / Weekly Focus Lessons‐ For each lesson, follow the HMH Bridge to CCSS for Days 1 – 5 to ensure that all students are exposed to the instructional shifts required to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.
April-May / Lesson 26 (Week 1) / Lesson 27 (Week 2) / Lesson 28 (Week 3) / Lesson 29 (Week 4) / Lesson 30 (Week 5)
Anchor Text / The Girl Who Loved Spiders
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Short Article: Web Wise
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Poetry
The Spider,
Spider Ropes / Amphibian Alert!
Genre: Informational Text
The Frog in the Milk Pail
Genre: Fable
Poetry: Toad by the Road, The Poison-Dart Frogs / Museums: Worlds of Wonder
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Making the Most from Trash
Genre: Photo Essay
Poetry: Dinosaur Bone,
Museum Farewell / Save Timber Woods!
Genre: Play
Following John Muir: A
Persuasive Essay
Genre: Persuasive Essay
Poetry: The Comb of Trees, Enjoy the Earth / Mystery at Reed’s Pond
Genre: Mystery
A Big Python Problem
Genre: Informational Text
Poetry: Naming the Turtle, Greater Flamingo
Vocabulary / Peculiar, intends, captured
Nourishing, glances, observes
Assist, favor, condition
memorable / Betrayed, shortage, species
Continent, scarce, focus
Included, alert, introduce
opportunities / Apologize, genuine, triumph
Arrangement, biological
Display, concluded
Obstacles, affect, vast / Defended, satisfied, confidence, symbol, vanished
Deliberately, brilliant, publicity
Territory, proposed / Appreciate, effort, denied
Informed, shallow, resources
Average, suffered, inspector
progress
Target Skill / Story Structure
(RL.4.5, RL.4.7) / Main Ideas/Supporting Details (RI.4.8) / Fact and Opinion (RI.4.8) / Understanding Characters
(RL.4.3, RL.4.7) / Conclusions / Generalization (RL.4.1, RL.4.7)
Target Strategy / Visualize, Point of View / Question / Monitor/Clarify: Tone
Analyze/Evaluate / Infer/Predict: Mood / Summarize: Word Choice
Foundational Skills
Fluency / Expression(RF.2.4a, RF.2.4b) / Phrasing
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Adjust Rate to Purpose
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Phrasing: Natural Pauses
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b) / Accuracy: Self- Correction
(RF.4.4a, RF.4.4b)