Fourth Grade Essential Outcomes
2009 - 2010
Math Essential Outcomes
1. Organizing Data: Using a given set of data to create a bar graph. Students will accurately identify the statistical landmarks of Maximum, Minimum, Range, and Mode. Students will accurately label the axes.
2. Solve addition and subtraction facts: Students will accurately complete 50 addition and subtraction facts in a three minute time period. Success is measured as 92% correct.
3. Multi digit addition and subtraction: By the end of the first semester students will master four digit addition and subtraction problems. Success is measured as 90% correct on a teacher created assessment.
4. Solve Basic Multiplication/ Division Facts: By the end of unit 3, students will master the Multiplication and Division fact family numbers 0-9. Success is measured as 90% correct on a 50 problem multiplication/ division test in 3 minutes.
5. Problem Solving: Students will effectively use a problem solving procedure to solve number stories/word problems such as: 1. Understand the problem. 2. Plan what to do. 3. Carry out that plan 4. Look back. Students will effectively write a number model to show the answer. Success is measured as 80% on a teacher created assessment:
6. Name and draw geometric figures: Students will accurately identify and describe common geometric shapes, Parallel lines, line segments, rays, lines, and properties of polygons.
7. Fractions, decimals, and percents: Students will give equivalencies between hundredths- fractions, decimals, and percents.
8. Perimeter and Area: Using formula students will accurately find the area and perimeter of a given shape.
9. Place Value: Given a teacher created assessment, students will accurately identify place value to the hundred millions and to the thousandths after the decimal point. Success is measured as 6 correct on a 7 item assessment.
Reading Essential Outcomes
1. Identify Main Idea and supporting details. All students will demonstrate, with 100% accuracy, knowledge of main idea and supporting details by identifying the main idea and three supporting details from a narrative passage.
2. Suffix and Prefix: All students will define and correctly apply, with 100% accuracy, the following affixes by the end of fourth grade: un-, re-, dis-, in/im-, -or/er, -ed, -ing, -ful, -less.
3. Fluency: All students will read fluently and automatically Scott Foresman Unit Benchmarks fluency passages. Success is measured as above 95 WCPM by December 1st, 105 WCPM by March 1st, and 115 WCPM by the end of the school year.
4. Literary Elements: All students will be able to identify a main character, the setting, the plot and the theme of a fictional story with 100% accuracy.
5. Constructed Response: All students will be able to answer constructed response questions with 100% accuracy by restating the question and providing three details from the story to support their answer.
6. Making Connections: With 100 % accuracy, all students will be able to make connections between what they are reading and other texts, themselves and the world. (T/T, T/S, T/W)
7. Compare and Contrast: Students will be able to compare and contrast two fiction passages by identifying main characters, settings, plot, and/or themes.
* Students will compare and contrast main ideas and details, and themes in two non-
fiction passages.
8. Summarizing: All students will be able to summarize fiction and non-fiction passages by creating a summary sentence that restates the plot or main idea of the passage.
9. Inferencing: All students will be able to answer inferencing questions on a teacher-generated common assessment with 100% accuracy.
10. Context Clues: All students will be able to use context clues to find the meaning of unknown information with 100% accuracy on a teacher-generated common assessment.
Writing Essential Outcomes
1. Sequencing: Students will create an essay that sequentially describes the necessary steps for creating a functional, closed circuit.
2. Compare and Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the literary elements (characters, setting, plot and theme) in an expository writing piece. Success is measured as students scoring 3 or better on a 4 point Six Traits writing rubric.
3. Types of sentences: Students will be able to write and identify the following types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative. Success is measured as 90% on a teacher-generated assessment.