4th grade Instructional Guide

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. (RL & RI)

Students use text as evidence to answer questions, construct arguments, narrate or explain details in a text. Using the ELA curriculum, students are constantly moving through text daily, citing evidence and inferences with each text set as the teacher asks the questions during close reading. The scope and sequence provides instruction with this standard in all units The text sets within the provided curriculum support diversity. Every day students have opportunities to summarize text using key details, determine purposes and main ideas of text. The scope and sequence provides instruction with this standard in all units. Every unit within the curriculum provides opportunities for describing characters, settings and events. Text with historical events and scientifc ideas are also provided. Close reading supports the teaching of these standards.

Standard 4.R.6: Read a variety of text types, including those from diverse cultures to determine a theme or main idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize texts using textual evidence. (RL & RI) Standard 4.R.7: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specifc details in the text. (RL) Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientifc, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specifc information in the text. (RI) Standard 4.R.8: Determine the meaning of words, phrases, fgurative language, academic and content-specifc words within a text. (RL & RI) Standard 4.R.9: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing fexibly from a range of strategies. (RL & RI) a. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word. b. Use common Greek and

The scope and sequence provides instruction with this standard in all units Within the ELA curriculum, vocabulary is explicitly taught and highlighted every day. Therefore, these standards are intertwined throughout daily, weekly and unit over the course of the year. Consistent focus on these standards is essential to build background knowledge and make gains with reading comprehension.

The scope and sequence provides instruction with this standard in all units Within the ELA curriculum, vocabulary is explicitly taught and highlighted every day. Therefore, these standards are intertwined throughout daily, weekly and unit over the course of the year. Consistent focus on these standards is essential to build background knowledge and make gains with reading comprehension.

Latin affxes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word. materials to fnd the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

c. Consult reference