Language Arts Grade 4

Reading

• Apply word analysis skills (phonics, word patterns) to recognize new words
• Apply word study skills (structural analysis) to recognize and understand new words
• Read age-appropriate material aloud with adequate speed, accuracy, and expression
• Demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary
• Apply reading strategies and skills to improve fluency and understanding

  Reading Related Web Sites

  • Open Court -Resources to support the Open Court Reading Program for students and teachers

Literature

• Identify and understand literary elements (characterization, dialogue, plot, point of view, setting)
• Recognize the differences among types of literature (adventure tale, biography, diary, fable/fantasy, folktales, historical fiction, informational texts, myth, realistic fiction, play)

  Literature Related Web Sites

• Children's Literature Web Guide
• CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities - Standards-based, web-delivered units on childrens' literature for grades K-12.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tales To Tell Choose from rhymes and nonsense, fables, animal stories, and many other kinds of stories by category, for adventures of all sorts, along with reading practice.

Writing

• Recognize and apply appropriate parts of speech
• Use correct grammar in written work
• Recognize and apply appropriate capitalization and punctuation
• Use correct spelling
• Identify and construct various types of sentences
• Use the writing process effectively (prewrite, draft, revise, edit)
• Demonstrate organization, focus, elaboration, and integration in written compositions
• Write using various forms (expository, narrative, persuasive, etc.)
• Write in cursive form

Writing Related Web Sites

• Cafe Hawthorne - a district 97 showcase of student writings.
• Inkspot: A Resource for Children's Writers
• Bat Magnet Poem Board - This is just like the "real" magnetic poetry board.  You can also change the available words to create poetry about things other than bats!

Grammar Related Web Sites

• MadLibs
• Anagrams

Listening/Speaking
Research

• Understand and use the research process as outlined in Research Basic, Jr.