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4.3 Fiction/Nonfiction
  • Words with multiple meanings
  • Word origins: synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
  • Context
  • Glossary
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
4.4 Fiction Comprehension
  • Author’s purpose
  • Choice of language, setting, and information contributes to author’s purpose
  • Major events/supporting details
  • Text Connections
4.5 Nonfiction Comprehension
  • Formulate questions prior to reading
  • Explain author’s purpose
  • Draw conclusions
  • Inferences
  • Summarize
  • Important ideas/details
  • Identify new information gained from reading
  • Text Connections
------/ 4.8 a, d, e, f Mechanics/Usage (all year)
  • Verb tenses
  • Plural nouns/verbs
  • Possessives
  • Double negatives
  • Sentences
  • Sentence punctuation
  • Comma usage/Articles
  • Adjectives/adverbs
  • Prepositional phrases
  • Subject verb agreement
  • Quotation marks
  • Sensory Words
  • Compound and Run On Sentences
4.3 Word origins
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
  • Homonyms/Homophones
  • Context Clues for meaning
  • Reference Materials
4.7a-c, d, g Narratives, poems, persuasive, expository, descriptive, letters
  • Writing plan (all year)
  • Write several related paragraphs
  • Word choice
  • Rhymed/unrhymed poetry
  • Writing domains (all year)
  • Note taking
  • Technology usage
  • Focus, organize and elaborate for an effective message
  • Specific vocabulary and vivid word choice, various lengths of sentences
Oral Language
4..1 b,c,e
  • Contribute to group discussions
  • Seek ideas and opinions of others
  • Grammaticallycorrectlanguage and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas
4.2 b,c
  • Listen to and record information
  • Organize information for clarity
/ 4.1 Scientific Method (all year)
  • Observations, conclusions, inferences, and predictions;
  • Hypotheses variables
  • Measure linear distance, volume, mass, and temperature;
  • Metric measures are used to collect, record, and report data;
  • Bar and basic line graphs;
  • Predictions are made based on data from picture graphs, bar graphs, and basic line graphs

4.2 Force, Motion, and Energy

Characteristics and interaction of moving objects.

  • motion is described by an object’s direction and speed;
  • forces cause changes in motion;
  • friction is a force that opposes motion; and
  • moving objects have kinetic energy.
4.6 Weather
  • Meteorological tools and measurements including barometer, anemometer, rain gauge, and a thermometer
  • Fronts-cold, warm, stationary
  • Clouds-cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus
  • Storms-thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes
  • Precipitation types
  • Weather prediction using data and instruments
/ 4.15/4.16 Patterns, Functions, & Algebra
  • Describe and create geometric and numerical patterns using tables, symbols, words, concrete materials and number lines
  • Recognize, write, and demonstrate equivalent quantities and the equal sign in the equation
  • Investigate and describe the associative property of addition and multiplication
4.13/4.14 Probability/Graphing
  • Predict the likelihood of a simple event
  • Represent probability as a number between 0-1, inclusive
  • Collect, organize, display, and interpret data from graphs
4.4 b-c Multiplication and division
  • Divide whole numbers with and without remainders
  • Multiply whole numbers
4.5 a Factors and Multiples
  • Common Multiples and Factors
  • LCM/GCF
4.5 b d Fractions
  • Add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators limited to 2,3,5,6,8,10,12
  • Simplify the resulting fractions with common multiples and factors
  • Solve single and multi step problems involving addition and subtraction with fractions
/ VS. 2d-g Indian Tribes/Languages
  • Algonquian/Siouan/Iroquoian
  • Coastal Plain Tribes
  • Eastern Woodland Indians
VS. 3b-g Jamestown Colony
  • First permanent English settlement
  • Charters from the King
  • Effects of colonization
  • How geography influenced the decision to settle at Jamestown
  • Charters of VA Company
  • VA Assembly (burgesses)
  • Woman and Africans
  • Tobacco economy
  • Hardships
  • Changes that ensured survival
  • Interactions with Powhatan
  • Pocahontas
VS.4 a-c Migration of Europeans
  • Cash crops
  • Agriculture
  • Economy
  • Tobacco
  • Role of Africans
  • Slave labor
  • Cultural landscape (barns, homes, churches)
  • Place names/culture
  • Settlement areas: Tidewater, Piedmont, Appalachian Plateau, Shenandoah Valley
  • Relocation of Virginia’s capital: Williamsburg
  • Contaminated water, disease, fire, elevation
  • Williamsburg to Richmond: location, risk of attack
VS.4d Colonial Times
Life in VA Colony
  • Money
  • Barter
  • Credit debt
  • Saving
  • No banks
VS. 4b Cultures
  • Indian
  • English
  • African
VS. 5a Colonial VA Revolution
  • Why colonies went to war