English Language Arts---Fourth Grade Curriculum Map

·  Please note that the highlighted standards suggest additional resources will be needed to fulfill Common Core requirements. Refer to the “Other Resources and Notes” column throughout the curriculum map to choose resources to complete your learning outcome.

Quarter / Reading
Standards / Reading Foundational
Skills Standards / Harcourt Reading / Other Resources and Notes / Spelling, Writing, and Grammar Focus / Harcourt Writing Common Core Handbook / Writing
Standard / Listening &
Speaking Standard / Language
Standard / Notes
Quarter #1
Theme 1 and Theme 2
Lessons 1-7 / RL.4.1
RL.4.2
RL.4.3
RL.4.4
RL.4.5
RL.4.6
RL.4.7
RL.4.9
RL.4.10
RI.4.1
RI.4.2
RI.4.3
RI.4.4
RI.4.5
RI.4.6
RI.4.7
RI.4.8
RI.4.9
RI.4.10 / RF.4.3a
RF.4.4a
RF.4.4b / Theme 1: Lesson 1 and 2
Character traits and motivations, use story structure, accuracy
Theme 1: Lesson 3 and 4
Compare and contrast, answer questions, reading rate
Theme 1: Lesson 5
Implement Common Core Bonus Theme 1 Lesson
AND/OR
Implement Harcourt Review Lesson 5
Theme 2: Lesson 6 and 7
Plot: conflict and resolution, monitor Comprehension: reread, intonation / F&P Assess new students
GLOBAL Scholar Testing BOY
Common Core Theme 1 Writing: Character description pages 111, 12; Personal Narrative pages 113, 114; Fictional Paragraph pages 117,118
Common Core Theme 2 Writing: Opinion Essay page 105
NAEP Lessons
Comprehension Toolkit
Readworks.org
ALEX
Grammar: Previous adopted text
Common Core Bonus Text
Comprehension Toolkit Binder of Text
Alabama Studies Weekly
Scholastic News
Youtube.com
Trade book novels
Picture books / Theme 1: Lesson 1
SP- synonyms and antonyms, closed syllable patterns, words with short vowels and vowel digraphs
WS- character description/voice
G-Declarative and interrogative sentences
Theme 1: Lesson 2
SP-Synonyms and antonyms, open syllable patterns, words with log vowels and vowel digraphs
WS- descriptive paragraph/voice
G- imperative and exclamatory sentences: interjections
Theme 1: Lesson 3
SP- syllable patterns: vowel digraphs, words with variant vowels and diphthongs
WS- narrative poem/word choice
G- subjects and predicates
Theme 1: Lesson 4
SP-structural analysis: Inflectional endings: -ed, -ing
WS- journal entry/word choice
G-complete and simple subjects and predicates
Theme 1: Lesson 5
Review of all Theme 1 skills
Theme 2: Lesson 6
SP-Prefixes, suffixes, and roots, syllable patterns: consonant + -le, words with consonant –le
WS-summary/ideas
G-compound subjects and predicates
Theme 2: Lesson 7
SP-Prefixes, suffixes, root words, syllable patterns: same medial consonants, words with VCCV: same medial consonants
WS-narrative paragraph/ideas
G- simple and compound sentences, / Theme 1: Narrative Writing:
Lesson1: Descriptive Paragraph
Lesson 2: Story
Lesson 3: Dialogue
Lesson 4: Fictional Narrative
Lesson 5: Fictional Narrative
Theme 2: Opinion Writing
Lesson 26: Response to Fiction
Lesson 27: Journal Entry
Lesson 28: Public Service Announcement
Lesson 29: Opinion Essay: Prewriting
Lesson 30: Opinion Essay: Drafting/ Revising / W.4.1a
W.4.1b
W.4.1c
W.4.1d
W.4.2a
W.4.2b
W.4.2d
W.4.2e
W.4.3a
W.4.3b
W.4.3b
W.4.3c
W.4.3d
W.4.3e
W.4.4
W.4.5
W.4.6
W.4.7
W.4.9a
W.4.9b
W.4.10 / SL.4.1a
SL.4.1b
SL.4.1c
SL.4.1d
SL.4.2
SL.4.3
SL.4.4
SL.4.5 / L4.4
L.4.4a
L.4.4b
L.4.4c
L.4.5
L.4.5a
L.4.5b
L.4.5c
L.4.6

Created May 2013