4th Grade
Reading
Math
Additional Resources
Reading Resources
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Question Stems -Question stem bank for each reading standard
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k12reader - website includes comprehension passages with a skill focus
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Readworks - website includes passages with comprehension questions
Unit 1: Interpreting Characters
What your kids should be doing:
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Reading books and texts that they are excited about!
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Looking for "just right" books that are not too hard or too easy
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Pausing after a section or chapter to check their comprehension
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Stopping to tackle hard words and think about what they mean instead of skipping over them
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Develop defensible ideas about characters
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Grounding evidence back in the text
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Connecting thoughts to build interpretations
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Finding meaning in recurring images, objects, and details
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Unit 2: Reading the Weather
In this unit, students will be placed into research teams to poke and pry into topics related to extreme weather and natural disasters. Students will practice the skill of evaluating sources to determine their credibility and learn to take notes in a way to think more about what they are reading and learning.
What your kids should be doing:
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Use text structures to help accentuate what matters
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Read hybrid texts
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Tackle tricky vocabulary through reading, note-taking and conversations
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Write a nonfiction summary
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Synthesizing across texts
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Writing to grow research based ideas
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Evaluating sources
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Analyzing Authors craft
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Unit 3: Interpretation Book Clubs
In this unit, students will be placed into fiction book clubs were they will conduct book discussions. The unit will continue to support students in describing characters, settings, and plots in depth. Students will study authorial intent in terms of perspective, structure and craft and consider how those choices help convey themes. In addition, students will look across texts and compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics.
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What your kids should be doing:​
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Revisiting familiar texts
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Finding multiple themes in one book
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Comparing themes across multiple texts
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Noticing literary craft to determine themes
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Daily book discussions
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Summarizing
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Unit 4: Author Study
This unit builds on the work of earlier nonfiction units. Students will apply their earlier knowledge to texts by particular nonfiction authors while working in clubs. Readers will zoom in on a favorite author or two and investigate the style of those authors, comparing and contrasting, noticing patterns, and analyzing how authors use certain techniques to create particularly compelling nonfiction. Readers will be encouraged to step out of their comfort zone and try out authors or series that they might not have been so quickly drawn to at first.
What your kids should be doing:​​
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Investigating nonfiction identities
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Deepening understanding of nonfiction techniques
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Comparing techniques used by different authors
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Daily club discussions
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Unit 5: Westward Expansion
In this unit students see that they can read to learn and that they can undertake inquiry through reading. Students will learn to read with a purpose, deciding what information is most important to hold onto and how to organize information, comparing and contrasting information from different texts and finally deciding how to synthesize their learning to teach others.
What your kids should be doing:​
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Forming research teams
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Organize information for note taking
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Applying what they learn into writing workshop.
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Study different points of views from different authors.
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Build theories from studying multiple perspectives
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Unit 6: Historical Fiction Book Clubs
In this unit, students will be reading shared historical fictions from a particular era with support from a book club. Clubs are important because it is helpful for young readers to develop interpretations in the company of others.
What your kids should be doing:
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Read complex texts with strong literal comprehsnion
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Monitor for sense
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Keep track of multiple plot-lines, characters, and shifts in time and place.
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Studying primary sources
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Cross-text comparisons
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Unit 7: Poetry
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Math Resources
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Zearn - math lessons and practice that are aligned with the lessons we teach in class
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LearnZillion - math instructional videos built by a world-class team of teachers
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IXL- practice math problems online
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MathGames - build up your fluency with engaging math games
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Sumdog - practice math skills online
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Prodigy - practice math skills online
Modules:
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August/September
Module 1: Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and Subtraction
The first module in 4th grade extends upon students' work with whole numbers. They begin with large numbers using familiar units and develop their understanding of millions by building knowledge of the pattern of "times ten" in the base ten system on the place value chart. Students will use place value as a basis for comparing whole numbers. Comparison leads directly to rounding, where their skill with isolating units is applied and extended.
October/November
Module 3: Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division
Students use place value understanding and visual representations to solve multiplication and division problems with multi-digit numbers. This module moves slowly but comprehensively to develop students' ability to reason about the methods and models chosen to solve problems with multi-digit factors and dividends. Students will investigate the formulas for area and perimeter and then solve multiplicative comparison problems including the language of "times as much as". In preparation for two-digit by two-digit multiplication, students practice the new complexity of multiplying two two-digit multiples of 10. Students will decompose numbers into base ten units in order to find products of single-digit by multi-digit numbers. Lastly, students will have the opportunity to apply their new multiplication skills to solve multi-step word problems and multiplicative comparison problems.
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December
Patterns/Algebra
Students use their understanding of increasing/decreasing numbers to solve geometric and numerical patterns. Students will use addition/subtraction/multiplication/division to solve 1 step and 2 step patterns. Students will also enhance their understanding of fact families to solve for the variable (ex. b - 2 = 28). Understanding which equation matches the story problem versus how to solve the problem is key to the students' algebraic understandings.
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January/February/March
Module 5: Fractions
Students will generate and analyze patterns; extend their understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering; build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers; represent and interpret data.
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March
Module 6: Relating Fractions to Decimals
Module 6 gives students their first opportunity to explore decimal numbers via their relationship to decimal fractions, expressing a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. Utilizing the understanding of fractions developed throughout Module 5, students apply the same reasoning to decimal numbers, building a solid foundation for Grade 5 work with decimal operations.
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April
Module 2: Unit Conversions and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement
Module 7: Exploring Measurement with Multiplication
Module 7 allows students to build their competencies in measurement as they relate multiplication to the conversion of measurement units. Throughout the module, students explore multiple strategies for solving measurement problems involving unit conversions.
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May
Module 4: Angle Measure and Plane Figures
Module 4 allows students time to develop an understanding of lines, line segments, rays, angles, and points. Using these vocabulary words, students will characterize figures and name properties using symbols and labels. Students will also become comfortable with using a protractor to measure angles and find missing angle measurements. Lastly, students will have an understanding of symmetry and which figures contain line(s) of symmetry.