Grade 4 Curriculum Planning
Unit 1 - Responsibility & Respect 8/17/15-10/2/15 (7 weeks)
Essential Question: How do the traits of responsibility and respect affect your actions and how you evaluate the consequences?
Writing: Narrative (real)
Prompt: Write about an event in which you took a risk. What were the consequences of your actions? How did you demonstrate the traits of responsibility and respect?
Standards:
Reading: RL/RI 4.1 ( continue explicit & introduce inference)
4.2 (summarization, introduce theme)
RL4.3 (character, setting, events)
Reading Foundational Skills:
RF4.3 ( word analysis) & RF 4.4 (fluency) Imagine It! CA
4.4 (vocabulary) L4.4
RF3.3 RtI & F&P
Writing:
W4.3 (Narrative)
4.4 ( multi-paragraph & rubric)
4.5 (editing, revising, w/ peers)
4.6 ( publishing via technology)
4.8 ( note taking from text)
Speaking & Listening:
SL4.1 ( group/partner work)
4.2 (paraphrasing)
4.4 (presentation to small group; some to whole group)
4.6 (formal vs. informal speaking)
Language:
L4.1 a, b, d, e, f, g
4.2
4.3b (punctuation for effect)
4.4 (vocabulary)
Texts:
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" Imagine It!
"The Mangrove Tree". Read Works
"The Great Kapok Tree"* Imagine It!
"The Little Red Hen" 4th Grade DePaul.edu (www.teacher.depaul.edu)
"On Being Yourself"*. 24 nonfiction reading passages (victor) Summit academy
(Paper and on-line, Google Docs)
"Business is Looking Up"*. Imagine It!
(*Must-Do)
Novels:
"The Indian in the Cupboard" 780 Lexile Level
"Riding Freedom" 720 Lexile Level
"The BFG" 720 Lexile Level
"The Great Debacle" 740 Lexile Level
Note:
8-10 passages (4 must do)
2-4 Imagine It! (2 Must do)
1 Novel/Unit
1 whole class-teacher lead
2 whole class-teacher/student led
3 small group
4 small group
Assessments:
Writing "write about an event..."
Pre & Post tests on taught standards/objectives Writing summaries of texts (details)
Amplify Quick Checks
Vocabulary through reading comprehension
Grammar through writing and speaking
Spelling through writing
Speaking/listening observational and through formal presentation of narrative
Grade 4: Curriculum Units
Unit 1 - Responsibility & Respect 8/17/15-10/2/15 (7 weeks)
Essential Question: How do the traits of responsibility and respect affect your actions and how you evaluate the consequences?
Writing: Narrative
Buffer week 10/5/15-10/9/15
Unit 2 - Caring and Fairness 10/12/15-12/11/15 (8 weeks)
Essential Question: How does compassion for and fairness to other living organisms impact the environment?
Writing: Informative/Explanatory
Buffer week 12/14/15-12/18/15
Unit 3 - Citizenship. 1/11/16-3/11/16 (9 weeks)
Essential Question: Why is it essential to display exemplary qualities of citizenship?
Writing: Opinion
Buffer week 3/14/16-3/18/16
Unit 4 - Trustworthiness. 3/29/16-5/20/16 (8 weeks)
Essential Question: Why is trustworthiness imperative in establishing report with others?
Writing: Narrative, I/E, Opinion
Buffer week 5/23/16-6/2/16
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