____Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

4th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

2005-2006

(Revised 5/05)

First
Nine Weeks / Weeks 1 – 4
Date______ / Week 4/5 / Weeks 5-8
Date ______ / Week 9
Date______

Ongoing

/ Check to see if an unknown word “makes sense”
Check to see if an unknown word “sounds right”
Check to see if an unknown word “looks right”
Identify and use poetry in various genres / Recognize when reading isn’t making sense /
Reading Workshop / v  Establish reading workshop procedures
(First 20 days GRW 3-6)
v  Fall LC assessment: Text Reading
·  Listen to, read, and identify a variety of literary genres using a variety of media (fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, poetry)
·  Locate just right books and media in the media center (Media center orientation)
·  Use book parts to identify author, illustrator, publisher, and publication of a fiction/nonfiction work / Reading Genre: Realistic and Historical Fiction
·  Identify the setting in a variety of passages (story, poem, etc) (I)
·  Reread for understanding and self correction
·  Read for a purpose and respond to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions
·  Compare/contrast content within and between texts

Ongoing

/ ·  Use Standard American English
·  Write legibly
Writing Workshop / v  Baseline writing sample and double scoring
v  Schlagal (LC Assessment)
v  Writing workshop procedures
v  Create a writing notebook/Collecting
Writing Process- Writing a paragraph
·  Complete sentence/fragment
·  Simple Subject/predicate
·  Identify types of sentence
·  Topic Sentence / /

Writing process – Letter Writing

Prewrite

First Draft

Revise

·  Topic sentence
·  Simple subject/sentence
·  Complete Sentence
·  Combining sentences

Edit

Publish (optional)
Language
&Word Study
(R. Sitton) / ·  Unit 1: short and long vowels– Concept 1 (A&B) & 2 (A)
·  Unit 2: long i, /k/– Concept 1(B) & 3(A)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation / ·  Unit 3: long e, diagraphs – Concept 1(B) & 2(A)
·  Unit 4: /s/, prefix-un, suffix-ly – Concept 1(A) & 3(A)
·  Unit 5: /j/, prefix-mis, suffix-re – Concept 2(A&C) & 3(B)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, SD

4th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

2005-2006

(Revised 5/05)

Second
Nine Weeks / Weeks 1 – 4
Date______ / Weeks 5-8
Date ______ / Week 9
Date______
Ongoing / Adjust reading rate to match purpose
Follow multiple oral directions / Read with fluency and expression
Reading Workshop / Reading Genre: Fiction
·  Use context clues to expand vocabulary and identify the unknown words while reading
·  Identify the character’s emotions in a variety of genre (story, poem)
·  Analyze character actions to make inferences about events in the story
·  Identify the character’s motivation for actions
·  Identify the character’s problem/solution / Reading Genre: Nonfiction
·  Follow multi-step directions
·  Identify rising action, climax, and falling action in stories (plot)
·  Identify organizational patterns: chronological and cause/effect
·  Identify explicit/implicit main ideas and supporting details
Writing Workshop /

Writing process – Personal Narrative

Prewrite

·  Categorize and organize information using maps, webs, and outlines
·  Develop a clear topic with examples/details
First Draft

Revise

·  Write ideas in story form with attention to sequence, main ideas, and supporting details
·  Draft and revise writing to improve fluency, content, organization and style to match purpose
·  Identify nouns (common/proper)
·  Use apostrophes to punctuate possessives
Edit
Publish / /

Writing process – Report Writing

Prewrite

·  Use search engines, local databases, and on-line information
·  Use available technology to assist in writing
First Draft

Revise

·  First draft
·  Try creative, unusual or novel use of language
·  Use dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, electronic, other references to identify word meaning
·  Writes 3 or more paragraphs about a topic
·  Identify, define, and use verbs (action, linking, irregular) to match purposes
·  Write, combine, and vary sentences to match purposes and audience
·  Identify subjects/predicates (simple/compound)
·  Maintain consistent number, gender, point of view and verb tense

Editing

·  Use guide words to locate information

Publish

Language
& Word Study
(R. Sitton) / ·  Unit 6: /ou/,suffix-ful – Concept 1(B) & 3(A)
·  Unit 7: compound, multiple meaning - Concept 1, 2(C&D)
·  Unit 8: Suffix-ment – Concept 2(A)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation / ·  / ·  Unit 9: contractions, irregular verbs – Concept 1(B) & 3 (B)
·  Unit 10: idioms, homophones – Concept 1(C&D)
·  Unit 11: Contractions, Suffix-er – Concept 1(A) & 3(A)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation

4th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

2005-2006

(Revised 5/05)

Third
Nine Weeks / Weeks 1 – 4
Date______ / Weeks 5-8
Date ______ / Week 9
Date______
Ongoing / Preview information texts to anticipate contents/organization of information / Predict information in nonfiction texts based on headings, italics, and graphics
Reading Workshop / Reading Genre: Persuasive Text
·  Identify author’s purpose in a variety of literary forms (inform, persuade, entertain)
·  Predict using clues: cause/effect, sequence of events, setting, character feelings, traits
·  Identify causes and effects in given passages / Reading Genre: Procedural
·  Make and defend inferences and conclusions (sequence of events, cause/effect, fiction/nonfiction)
·  Distinguish between fact/opinion
·  Review study techniques such as PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Study, Test) or PQ4R (Preview, Question, Research, Read, Review, Report)
Ongoing / Gather information from reference works: book, periodical, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, almanac / Use the table of contents, index, glossary, and appendix to locate information in books and reference works
Writing Workshop /

Writing process – Persuasive writing

Prewrite·  Explore the skills of taking notes from lectures, reading, viewing, and interviewing
First Draft
Revise
·  Use conjunctions to create varied sentence patterns
·  Recognize and eliminate redundancy
·  Identify/define adjectives
Edit
·  Capitalize words used as proper nouns, adjectives, titles, days, months, holidays
·  Capitalize the first word in a quote
·  Use quotation marks to punctuate dialogue
·  Edit for spelling fragments and run-on sentences
Publish / /

Writing process – Procedural writing

Prewrite
·  Distinguish between fact/opinion
First Draft

Revise

·  Identify/define pronouns
·  Use subject pronoun to replace the subject
·  Use appropriate form of comparative/superlative adjectives
·  Use correct pronoun order
·  Maintain consistent number/gender with pronoun and antecedents

Edit

·  Use commas to set off compound sentences/weak interjections

Publish

Word Study/Sitton / ·  Unit 12: suffix-es,s - Concept 2(A)
·  Unit 14: /ou/, r controlled- Concept 1(A) & 2(C)
·  Unit 15: long /u/ - Concept 1(A) & 2(C)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation / ·  / ·  Unit 17: soft syllables with le, al, el, er, or, ar Concept 1 (A,B,C,)
·  Unit 18: antonyms, suffix-less - Concept 3(A&B)
·  Unit 19: comparisons er-est - Concept 2(B)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation

4th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Map

2005-2006

(Revised 5/05)

Fourth
Nine Weeks / Weeks 1 – 4
Date______ / Weeks 5-8
Date ______ / Week 9
Date______
Ongoing / Recognize and discuss cultural diversity in literature
Reading Workshop / Reading Genre: Fantasy
·  Spring Break
·  Test taking genre
·  Profile Sheet Data – STAR, writing stage, LC level
GATEWAY- April 12-15
CRCT- April 20-29 / Reading Genre: Poetry
·  Recalls, interprets, summarizes, and communicates effectively information presented or read
·  End of year assessments
Writing Workshop / Writing Process- Fantasy
Prewrite
First Draft
Revise
Edit
Publish / Writing Process- Poetry
Prewrite
First Draft
Revise
·  Identify /define adverbs
·  Use appropriate form of comparative/superlative adverbs
Edit
Publish
Language & Word Study
(R. Sitton) / ·  Unit 20: Consonant blends – Concept 1 (A&B)
·  Unit 21: y to i, add s – Concept 1 (A&B)
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation / ·  / ·  Unit 24: Prefix-sub, un, re, dis, mis– Concept 1 (A&D)
·  Unit 26: endings- s,es, ed, ing, - Test Ready- at-school activity
*Take-Home Task, Word Test, Skill Test, Sentence Dictation