4th Grade ELA Pacing Plan
Week / September1- October 26 (7weeks) / October 29-Jan 27 / Jan 28-April 27Essential Questions
/ (1) How do stories of others help us to share their experiences? (2) Is it possible to come up with more than one meaning for a word? (3) Why is it important to understand the parts of a text? (4) How do good writers hook and hold their readers? / (1) Should a story teach you something?
(2) What can tales from around the world teach us? (3) Why have punctuation marks? (4) What does the text mean? (5) What if we didn’t have titles / (1) How does text differ? (2) What makes
Writing flow? (3) What does the author really mean?
Concepts Introduced:
Reading / Narrative
· Story Structure of Imaginative Narrative (Fables, Tall Tales, and Trickster tales)
Information & Study
· Tree Map for Taking Notes / Expository
· Compare and Contrast
Text structure
· Main Idea and Supporting Details
Information & Study
· Double Bubble
· Tree Map / Narrative
· Structural Differences of legends and fairy tales
Information & Study
· Double bubble / Expository
· Cause and Effect
· Proposition & Support
· Compare and contrast same topic readings
Information & study
· Multi Flow Chart
· Tree map / Narrative
· Myth
· Fables
Information & study
· Double bubble
· Tree map / Expository
· Sequential
· Follow multistep instructions
Information & study
· Flow chart
· Multi flow chart
Key Reading Standards
/ RC 2.2- Make a confirm Prediction by using prior knowledge and ideas presented in text
RC Distinguish fact from opinion
L.A .Compare and Contrast tales from Different Cultures
LA 3.5 Hyperbole and Personification / RC 3.3 Determine causes for character actions
RC 3.5 metaphor and simile
RC2.2 Make and conform predictions using text features
RC 2.6 Distinguish cause from effect / RC 2.2 Make and conform Predictions using foreshadowing clues
LA 3.5 similes and metaphors
LA3.2 Identify main events of plots and their causes, and their effects on future events
Key Word Work
/ Structural Analysis
· Spelling: Inflections: er, est, ing, s, and es
· Suffixes: ly, y
· Root: spect, dict, tele, rupt
· Prefixes: pre, re, dis
Vocabulary
· Multiple Meaning words
· Use a Thesaurus / Structural Analysis
· Spelling: Syllable constructions and Possessives
· Suffixes: er, or, ist
· Prefixes: un, mis
· Roots: auto, bio, audi
Vocabulary
· Idioms
· Synonyms & Antonyms / Structural Analysis
· Spelling: Prefixes, suffixes, roots, and Contractions
· Suffixes: ness, ous
· Prefixes: multi, inter, con
· Roots: scope, circ
Vocabulary
· Synonyms and Antonyms
· Multiple meaning words
Writing and Language
/ Genre: Narrative
Grammar
· Simple sentences & compound sentences
· Conjunctions
· Commas in quotes correctly
· Titles
· Prepositions
· Combine sentences with prepositional phrases
Writing
· Clear focused paragraphs
· Transitions
· Introduction
· Edit and revise: add and delete information
· Parts of a book ( appendix, table of contents, preface, and index)
· Audience and Purpose / Genre: Summary
Grammar
· Verbs: regular and irregular
· Appositives
· Participial phrases
· Combine sentences with part appositive
· Combine sentences with participial phrases
· Cite information
· Titles ( Capitalization)
Writing
· Edit and revise: Rearrange information consolidate information writing
· Conclusions
· Parts of a book
· Structural organization
· Audience and Purpose / Genre: Response to Literature
Grammar
· Adverbs
· adjectives
· Appositives
· Participial phrases
· Combine short related sentences with adverbs
· Combine short related sentences with adjectives
· Titles
Writing
· Cite information
· Conclusions
· Parts of a book
· Edit and revise: consolidate information
· Audience and Purpose
Assessments
/ 4sight –October 26
Edusoft Assessment: October 29-30
Writing assessment: November 2nd / 4 Sight- January 25
Edusoft Assessment: January 28-29
Writing Performance: December 14th / 4-Sight: March 22
Edusoft Assessment: March 25-26
Writing Assessment: February 22
Resources