4th Grade Goals
Reading Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 4: Reading History: The American Revolution
- Students will research and learn about a topic
- Students will learn to notetake, and organize the important information
- Students will learn to synthesize information about key subtopics
- Students will support their own points of view of a topic using historical evidence
- Students will read and tackle challenging texts
Unit 5: Test Prep/Unit of Your Choice
- Students will determine the main idea of short passages
- Students will read passages of different genres: narrative, expository, non fiction, poetry
- Students will learn to summarize the passages
- Students will compare and contrast two texts
- Students will learn different text features
Writing Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 4: Bringing History to Life (Historical Writing Unit)
- Students will take notes using boxes and bullets
- Students will learn to think about the structure of their historical writing
- Students will use text features to highlight information
Unit 5: Test Prep Unit
- Students will compare and contrast essays
- Students will learn the difference between evidence and reason
- Students will organize information for essay writing
- Students will write an introduction and conclusion for their essay
- Students will practice writing short response questions
Math Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Topic 8: Extending Understanding of Fraction Equivalence and Ordering
- Students will learn equivalent fractions using area models, number lines
- Students will generate equivalent fractions using multiplication and division
- Students will compare fractions
Topic 9: Understanding Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
- Students will model addition of fractions
- Students will decompose fractions
- Students will add fractions with like denominators
- Students will add and subtraction fractions with like denominators
- Students will model addition and subtraction of mixed numbers
- Students will add and subtract mixed numbers
Topic 10: Extend Multiplication Concepts to Fractions
- Students will multiply a fraction by whole number using models and symbols
Topic 11: Represent and Interpret Data on Line Plots
- Students will read and make line plots
- Students will use line plots to solve problems
Topic 12: Understand and Compare Decimals
- Students will understand and compare fractions and decimals on the number line
- Students will compare decimals
- Students will add fractions with denominators of 10 and 100
- Students will solve word problems involving money
