Grade 4
Units at a Glance 2015-2016
Subject / September / October / November / December/Jan / Jan/Feb / March/April / May June
Literacy / Becoming A Researcher (ReadyGen Unit 1- Module A)
Anchor Text – Tarantula Scientist & The Boy Who Drew Birds
- Essential Question: How does a reader consider point of view?
- Essential Question: How does a writer use experiences, narration, and description to compel a reader?
- Identify and analyze the point of view, features, and text structure of narrative non-fiction
- Utilize and practice research skills such as paraphrasing and note taking
- Compare and contrast point of view to understand the experiences and lives of others
- Write a biography based on the experiences of a scientist
- Discuss how researchers do their work
- Develop critical thinking skills when examining texts
- Using Shared Inquiry Techniques to promote a deeper understanding of text
- Compare and Contrast researcher practices
- Performance Task: Choose a topic (inanimate or animate) and publish writing from 1st, 2nd, or 3rd point of view.
September 16, 2015 – November 4th, 2015 / Becoming a Researcher (ReadyGen Unit 1- Module B)
Anchor Text – Skeletons
- Essential Question: How do readers summarize ideas by using both text and supporting visuals for clues?
- Essential Question: How do writers research and share ideas from informational texts?
- Compare, gather and synthesize ideas from multiple sources in informational texts
- Compose research based on questions about informational reading
- Write an informational/explanatory piece based on an state researched in the US
- Use information presented in different ways and from different sources to demonstrate understanding of a topic
- Utilize and practice research skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing & note taking
- Use organizational structures, specific word choice and evidence when explaining a topic
- Performance Task: Construct an infographic for the researched state
November 16th, January 15th, 2015 / Interactions in Nature and Culture (ReadyGen Unit 2 – Module A/B)
Anchor Text – Hiawatha & The Birchbark House
- Essential Question: How does a reader identify themes?
- Essential Question: How does a writer develop and organize writing that matches purpose and audience?
- Determine the theme in poems and dramas by interpreting the details
- Write narratives including narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and sensory language
- Read and write narratives including narrative elements such as characters (protagonist & antagonist), setting, problem & resolution
- Engage in meaningful class discussion of themes presented in the text.
- Using Shared Inquiry Techniques to promote a deeper understanding of text
- Develop critical thinking skills when examining texts
- Identify facts within historical fiction narratives
- Performance Task: Write a Native American Legend including
January 19th, 2016- March 11, 2016
/ Test Sophistication – I Ready NY
Poetry
Essential Question: How can poetry be defined?
- Understanding there are different types of poems
- Write poems in various structures
- Identify and include symbolism and imagery in poems read and created
- Use mentor texts as models for poems
- Visualizing the author’s words to build comprehension
NYS ELA Exam April 5-7
NYS Math Exam April 13-15 / Creating Innovative Solutions (Ready Gen Unit 4 – Module B )
Anchor Text – Using Money
Essential Question: How can readers use reasons and evidence to explain information?
Essential Question: How do writers develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, and quotations to support an opinion?
- Conduct research to build knowledge
- Write opinion based essays
- Understand that authors use reasons and evidence to support particular points in the text
- Understand that research builds knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic
- Draw conclusions from evidence from the text
May 2, 2016 – June 17, 2016
Math / Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction to One Million
GoMath – Chapter 1 – Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten
Essential Question: How can you use place value to compare, add, subtract, and estimate with whole numbers?
- Use of numbers in everyday life
- Place value relationships
- Standard, expanded & written forms
- Compare and order numbers
- Round numbers
- Add and Subtract Whole numbers
September 16, 2015 – October 23rd, 2015 / Factors, Multiples & Multiplication
GoMath – Chapter 5, 2 & 3 – Domains: Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten
Essential Question: What strategies can you use to multiply 1 and 2 digit numbers?
- Identifying factors and multiples of numbers
- Identifying common factors and multiples of numbers
- Define and identify prime & composite numbers
- Describe patterns
- Estimate products
- Problem Solving – multi step multiplication problems
- Use algorithms and strategies to multiply by 1 and 2 digit numbers (Partial Products, Traditional with regrouping & area model)
Chapter 5 - October 26, 2015 – November 6, 2015
Chapters 2 & 3 November 9th – December 18,2015 / Division
GoMath – Chapter 4 – Domain: Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten
Essential Question: What strategies can you use to divide by 1 digit numbers?
- Estimate quotients using multiples
- Interpret the remainder
- Divide Tens, Hundreds, and Thousands
- Use the Distributive Property to divide
- Estimate quotients
- Use algorithms and strategies to divide 1 digit divisors and multi digit dividends (Partial Quotients & Traditional with regrouping)
January 4, 2016 – January 29, 2016 / Fractions
GoMath- Chapter 6, 7 & 8 – Domains: Number and Operations – Fractions
Essential Questions:
What strategies can you use to compare fractions and write equivalent fractions?
How can you record and compare decimals and fractions?
- Generate equivalent fractions using multiplication and division
- Reduce fractions to simplest form using Greatest Common Factor
- Compare Fractions using Benchmark fractions & Least Common Denominator
- Add and Subtract fractions with like denominators
- Rename fractions and mixed numbers
- Multiply a fraction by a whole number
- Use benchmark fractions to identify equivalent decimals
- Identify equivalent fractions and decimals
- Multiplication & Division using basic facts (multiples & factors)
- Addition & Subtraction
February 1, 2016– April 1, 2016 / Decimals, Geometry, Measurement & Data
GoMath – Chapters 9, 10, 11 & 13 – Domains: Measurement & Data
Essential Question:
How can you record, compare & order decimals?
How can you classify shapes and measure interior angles?
How can you use formulas for perimeter & Area
- Explore fractional and decimal equivalence to the hundredths place value
- Exploration of the properties of three dimensional figures
- Classifying Triangles & Quadrilaterals
- Construction of three dimensional figures
- Exploration of vocabulary of three dimensional figures
- Developing and applying formulas for determination of the area and volume of two and three dimensional figures
- Determining the Unknown measures of angles
- Multiplication of dimensions to find area and volume
- Addition and subtraction to find missing interior angles
May 2, 2016 – June 17th, 2016
Social Studies / New York’s Land and First Peoples
- Environment of New York State
- Landforms of New York State
- Climate and Resources of New York State
- Arrival of European Explorers in the New World
- How Native Americans were affected by the changes brought by these explorers
- Impact of the Columbian Exchange on The New and Old Worlds
- The fight for freedom
- Examining the development of a New Nation
- The role played by New York and the other Colonies
Examining social, industrial and governmental changes in New York State and New York City during the 1800s and early 1900s Local and / State Government
- Examining the roles and responsibilities of elected officials in State
Examining the roles and responsibilities of elected officials in New York City