English/Language Arts - Fourth Grade: Learning Expectations

Reading

Learning Expectations:

  1. 1.01 Continue to develop oral language and listening skills.
  2. 1.02 Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.
  3. 1.03 Expand reading skills through phonemic awareness.
  4. 1.04 Use decoding strategies to read unfamiliar words.
  5. 1.05 Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.
  6. 1.06 Expand reading vocabulary.
  7. 1.07 Reading strategies to facilitate comprehension.
  8. 1.08 Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
  9. 1.09 Develop appropriate information skills and study skills to facilitate learning.
  10. 1.10 Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.
  11. 1.11 Read independently for a variety of purposes.
  12. 1.12 Experience various literary and media genres.
  13. 1.13 Develop and sustain a motivation for reading.

Writing

Learning Expectations:

  1. 2.01 Engage in prewriting using a variety of strategies.
  2. 2.02 Write for a variety of audiences and purposes.
  3. 2.03 Show evidence of drafting and revision with written work.
  4. 2.04 Include editing before the completion of finished work.
  5. 2.05 Evaluate own and others' writing.
  6. 2.06 Experience numerous publishing opportunities.
  7. 2.07 Write narrative accounts.
  8. 2.08 Write frequently across all content areas.
  9. 2.09 Write expressively using original ideas, reflections, and observations.
  10. 2.10 Write in response to literature.
  11. 2.11 Write in a variety of modes and genres.

Elements of Language

Learning Expectations:

  1. 3.01  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.
  2. 3.02  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics.
  3. 3.03  Demonstrate knowledge of standard English spelling.
  4. 3.04  Demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.