4th grade Instructional Guide

I-CANyons Report Card Standards Fourth Grade ELA

SPEAKING & LISTENING ● Participate effectively in discussions ● Summarize information orally ● Use correct grammar, volume and pronunciation when speaking and presenting READING ● Demonstrate phonics skills in reading and spelling ● Read accurately and fluently to support comprehension within the 770-885 Lexile band ● Use text evidence to explain a text and make inferences ● Determine main ideas and themes using key details; summarize ● Describe and explain in depth characters, settings, events, and why the events happened ● Determine meaning of figurative language and content words ● Use morphology, context, or other strategies to determine the meaning of multiple meaning words and phrases ● Describe and analyze text structure ● Compare 1st and 3rd person narrations, and primary and secondary sources ● Compare visual or oral presentations of a text and interpret text elements, illustrations or quantitative information ● Explain how reasons and evidence support specific claims in informational text ● Compare stories with a similar theme, and integrate information from two texts on the same topic to speak or write knowledgeably WRITING ● Write argument pieces ● Write informational pieces ● Write narrative pieces ● Conduct research ● Write manuscript and cursive fluently

Updated 9.20.24