4th Grade, Year at a Glance 2018-2019

Date Reading Comprehension

Unit Unit Title Reading Genre
Span Strategies/Skills
• Using context clues
Literary texts: fiction, • Monitoring comprehension
8-27 Genre Study: literary nonfiction • Sequencing & summarizing plot
1 to Literary (memoir, biography, • Inferring
9-28 Texts autobiography), and 1. author’s reason for character and plot details
narrative poetry 2. interaction of characters including the
relationships and changes they undergo
• Asking questions
Informational texts: • Summarizing main idea & supporting
10-1 Genre Study: details
expository, persuasive, &
2 to Informational
embedded media or • Interpreting text features
11-1 Texts • Inferring
procedural elements
1. purpose and impact of text features
2. author’s purpose for organization decisions
• Inferring
1. Details and theme in biographies
Literary texts: literary 2. Details in expository texts
11-5
Author’s nonfiction • Author’s purpose & audience
3 to
Purpose Informational texts: • Determining importance of ideas
12-21
expository & persuasive

• Summarizing
Literary texts: fiction & • Synthesizing
1-9
Author’s drama • Inferring
4 to
Craft Informational texts: 1. author’s reason for a detail’s inclusion and
2-15 placement
expository & persuasive
2. impact of details on tone, reader, theme, etc.

• Making connections
Making 1. within, across, and beyond texts
2-19 • Comparing & contrasting
Connections
5 to
Across Texts
All genres 1. similarities and differences between texts that
4-12 explore a similar topic or theme
and Genres 2. various ways authors open and close
informational texts
• Analyzing theme
Literary texts: fiction,
4-15 literary nonfiction • Inferring
1. details that help authors develop a theme
6 to Theme (memoir, biography, 2. plot’s impact on theme
5-30 autobiography), poetry,
and drama
• Asking questions
The • Evaluating evidence
• Synthesizing information
7 Ongoing Research All genres
• Critiquing validity of sources
Process
4th Grade, Year at a Glance 2018-2019

Writing Writing & Grammar

Portfolio Artifacts
Mode Conferencing Lens Anchor Lessons
Setting Up • Focus • Recurring evidence of: • Capitalization
Writer’s 1. analysis of the prompt 1. prompt analysis • Subject/Verb
2. understanding purposes 2. brainstorming
Workshop
for writing (narrative,
• Simple sentence
& expository, persuasive) • Adjectives & their comparative
Drafting a • Planning and superlative form
Narrative • Adverbs
• Central idea • Recurring evidence of: • Prepositions and prepositional
1. a.k.a. “the promise” 1. drafting central idea phrases
Expository • Organization 2. using effective • Pronoun and antecedent
organization structures,
Essay including the logical agreement
order of ideas • Commas in a series
• Comma with FANBOYS
• Types of support • Recurring evidence of: • No comma with FANBOYS
Expository • Coherence 1. including relevant • Comma after introductory
Essay 1. all support connects to support information
2. coherent development
& central idea
that connects back to the • Comma before closing
2. sentences build on
Drafting the ones before them central idea information
Correspondence 3. each idea is developed • Comma around an interrupter
with support
• Thoughtfulness • Recurring evidence of: • Comma with AAAWWUBBIS
1. purposeful word choice 1. improving word choice • No comma w/AAAWWUBBIS
Expository 2. specific support and quality of support
Essay 3. meaningful details 2. maintaining a tone
• Capitalization
• Concluding statement appropriate for audience • Transition words and phrases
and purpose
• Tone
• Transitions • Recurring evidence of: • Transition Words & Phrases
• Coherence 1. connecting ideas with • Apostrophe with contractions
meaningful transitions
Expository • Openings 2. working with openings
• Apostrophes with possessives
Essay • Concluding statement 3. working with closings • Homophones
• Correlative Conjunctions

• Sentence control • Recurring evidence of: • Commas in a Series

• Sentence variety 1. improving sentences to • Comma with FANBOYS
ensure clear
Imaginative
communication
• Homophones
Story 2. varying sentence length • Spiral through skills that
and starters students continue to struggle
with. Consider emphasizing
comma usage.
• Source citations • Research product
• Embedding source
Multimedia information Not Applicable
Project