English Language Arts, Grade 4, 2007
1.) Demonstrate word recognition skills, including structural analysis.
Example: structural analysis--prefixes, suffixes, root words
• Producing common word parts
• Reading multisyllable words
• Reading compound words, contractions, possessives, and inflectional endings
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2.) Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge, including recognition of a variety of synonyms and antonyms.
• Using context clues
• Reading multiple-meaning words
• Increasing number of sight words
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3.) Use a wide range of strategies, including distinguishing fiction from nonfiction and making inferences, to comprehend fourth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
Examples: novels, short stories, poetry, trade books
• Skimming passages to get significance of passage
• Summarizing passages to restate information
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using knowledge of sentence structure and context to enhance comprehension
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using vocabulary knowledge to enhance comprehension
• Reading fluently with expression and attention to punctuation
• Drawing conclusions to determine content not directly stated
• Asking and answering questions
• Relating events, ideas, and characters to prior knowledge and specific life experiences
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4.) Identify literary elements and devices, including characters, important details, and similes, in recreational reading materials and details in informational reading materials.
• Identifying main idea
• Identifying author's purpose
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5.) Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events in informational and functional text
• Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational text
• Summarizing passages to demonstrate understanding
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using text features to gain meaning
Examples: titles, headings, glossary, boldface, index, table of contents, tables, charts, graphs
• Previewing to anticipate content
• Using note-taking skills, including highlighting and outlining
• Detecting obvious bias in informational text
• Recognizing persuasive techniques in informational text
Examples: bandwagon, snob appeal
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6.) Compare the genre characteristics of tall tales, fantasy, myths, and legends, including multicultural literature.
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7.) Compare story elements and the experiences and feelings of literary characters to students' lives.
• Describing how events, settings, and characterization encountered in written text influence the thinking of the reader
• Identifying author's craft and technique for relaying intended message
Examples: dialogue, exaggeration, alliteration, imagery, parallel structure, logical arguments
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8.) Compose descriptive texts using an introductory paragraph, sensory details, vivid language, and a conclusion.
• Determining purpose and audience prior to writing
Examples:
- purpose--writer addresses topic in correct mode
- audience--writer uses appropriate tone and language
• Demonstrating clarity and organization in a composition
• Composing expository texts using a main idea with three supporting details
• Composing narrative texts using a definite time frame, selected tone, and a clear sequence of events
Examples: selected tone--sarcastic, angry, humorous, respectful
• Writing complex sentences to vary sentence structure
• Correcting sentence fragments and run-on sentences in writing
• Demonstrating the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
• Demonstrating usage of graphic organizers during prewriting
• Spelling correctly in final written texts
• Bulleting major ideas during prewriting
• Utilizing figurative language to enhance written communication
Examples: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification
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9.) Respond in writing to open-ended questions.
• Utilizing bullets to organize major details and ideas to support a topic
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10.) Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of business and friendly letter parts and envelope addresses and use of punctuation, including apostrophe with contractions; underlining or italicizing of book titles; and commas to separate items in a series and in a physical address.
• Capitalizing proper adjectives and the first word in direct quotations
• Applying correct punctuation in a direct quotation, including quotation marks, commas, and end marks
• Using commas correctly in a compound sentence
• Using apostrophes with possessives
• Writing sentences without the use of double negatives
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11.) Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement with simple subjects and correct usage of regular and irregular verb forms.
Examples:
- subject-verb agreement--she walks, they walk
- regular verb form--like, liked, liked
- irregular verb form--draw, drew, drawn
• Differentiating among helping, linking, and action verbs
• Demonstrating correct use of nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, adjectives, and adverbs
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12.) Organize information on a specific topic obtained from grade-appropriate reference materials.
Examples: dictionaries, online resources, thesauruses, atlases, news and feature articles
• Formulating research questions
• Using paraphrasing to convey ideas from resources
• Using note-taking skills to gather information
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13.) Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with descriptive presentations.
• Using demonstrations with oral expository presentations
• Using figurative language to enhance oral communication
Examples: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification
• Utilizing precise vocabulary in oral presentations
Examples: leap instead of jump, miniature instead of little
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14.) Identify strategies of a skillful listener, including attending to the listening task and assigning meaning to the message.
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