BENTWORTH SCHOOL DISTRICT
GRADE 4 LANGUAGE ARTS LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the second quarter, fourth grade students should be able to:
Text Comprehension
1. Demonstrate an understanding of Informational text
●Make inferences based on the text and refer to the text details to support the inferences
●Summarize the text -- including what happened and why
●Describe and use the text structure to interpret the information
●Interpret information presented in diagrams, charts, and graphs
●Define words and phrases by using context clues, a glossary, and a dictionary
2. Demonstrate an understanding of Literature
●Describe the characters, setting, or events in historical and cultural fiction
●Cite relevant details and provide text evidence when talking or writing about the text
●Compare and contrast similar topics and themes in literature of different cultures
●Summarize a story with details from the beginning, middle, and end of the reading
●Define words and phrases by using context clues
Composition
1. Write clear and focused text
●Organizes thoughts in a graphic organizer for the pre-writing process for a 5-paragraph essay
●Engages reader from beginning to end with an interesting opening, logical sequence & satisfying solution when writing 5 paragraph essay.
●Use proofreading skills and identify sentence fragments and change into a sentence.
●Write a fictional narrative that uses dialogue and descriptions to develop events in story.
●Write a letter to inform, persuade and entertain.
●Correctly spells common high-frequency words within writing.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of English grammar
●Use irregular verbs correctly in the past tense and the past participle.
●Apply knowledge of adverbs and adjectives and use them correctly in writing.
●Adjective Order
●Prepositional Phrases
●Identifying complete sentences, run-ons, and fragments
●Quotation Marks
3. Use conventional spelling for words with common and uncommon patterns
●Use conventional spelling for words with uncommon patterns
○Homophones and vocabulary
●Use conventional spelling for words with common patterns
○Long i spelled igh
○Long o spelled oa, ow
○Long u spelled ue
○Words with th or ch
○Words with gr or pl
○Words with sc, sk