Fourth Grade Curriculum
ALL CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS ARE ACTIVE DRAFTS
Literacy
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Fourth Grade Decoding Proficiency Scale:
Priority Standards:
4.RF.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
4.RF.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding
4.RF.4.B Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
4.RF.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
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Analyzing Themes and Ideas Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.RL.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
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Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.RI.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
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Analyzing Words Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.RL.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g.Herculean)
4.RI.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area
4.RF.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
4.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies
4.L.4.A Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
4.L.4.B Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph)
4.L.4.C Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases
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Text Features Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.W.2.A Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections: include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension
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Text Types Proficiency Scales:
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4.W.2 Write multiple informative/explanatory tests to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly
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Generating Text Organization and Structure Proficiency Scales:
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4.W.1.C Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition)
4.W.1.D Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented
4.W.2.A Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections: include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension
4.W.2.B Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic
4.W.2.C Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because)
4.W.2.E Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented
4.W.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources
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Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.W.1 Write multiple opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information
4.W.1.A Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose
4.W.1.B Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details
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Sources and Research Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.RI.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably
4.W.2.D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic
4.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic
4.W.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information and provide list of sources
4.W.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
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Generating Narratives Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.W.3 Write multiple narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences
4.W.3.A Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally
4.W.3.B Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations
4.W.3.C Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events
4.W.3.D Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely
4.W.3.E Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events
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Revision Proficiency Scale:
Prioritized Standards:
L.4.1.F Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons
L.4.3.A Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely
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Parts of Speech Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.L.1.A Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why)
4.L.1.B Form and use the progressive (e.g. I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses
4.L.1.C Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions
4.L.1.D Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag)
MSU.4.LC.1 Using common forms of complex sentences (e.g., writing sentences with one main clause and one subordinate clause)
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Editing Proficiency Scales:
Prioritized Standards:
4.L.2.A Use correct capitalization
4.L.2.B Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text
4.L.2.C Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence
4.L.2.D Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed
4.L.3.B Choose punctuation for effect
Social Studies
Science
Math
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Prioritized Standards:
*4.NBT.A.1 Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
4.NBT.A.2 Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
*4.NBT.A.3 Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.
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4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
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4.NBT.B.5 Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
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*4.NBT.B.6 Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
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4.OA.A.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
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4.OA.A.1 Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison, e.g., interpret 35 = 5 × 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.
4.OA.A.2 Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
4.OA.A.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
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*4.OA.A.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
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4.OA.B.4 Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1–100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1–100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1–100 is prime or composite.
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4.OA.A.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
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4.NF.A.1 Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.
*4.NF.A.2 Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
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*4.NF.B.3 Understand a fraction a/b with a > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b. (PLUS the 4 sub-standards)
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*4.NF.B.4 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number. (PLUS the 3 sub-standards)
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*4.NF.C.5 Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.
*4.NF.C.6 Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100.
*4.NF.C.7 Compare two decimals to hundredths by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual model.
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4.G.A.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
4.G.A.3 Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry
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*4.MD.A.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two column table.
*4.MD.A.2 Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
*4.MD.B.4 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots.
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4.MD.A.3 Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems.