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FOURTH GRADE CURRICULUM

READING

Comprehension Strategies:
Summarizing
Connecting
Visualizing
Questioning
Predicting
Inferring
Synthesizing

Fluency/Accuracy

Literature Circles

Guided Reading

Genre Variety

Fiction and Non-fiction Reading

Reader’s Theater

Read Alouds

Independent Reading

Reader’s Notebooks

Vocabulary Development

Writing

Portfolio Pieces:
Response to Literature – literary
Response to Literature – informational
Narrative
Report

Poetry

GUM (grammar, usage, mechanics)

Parts of Speech

Punctuation

Capitalization

Word Usage

Paragraphing

Writing Process (Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish)

Writing with purpose, organization, detail, and voice and tone

WORD STUDY/SPELLING

Word Patterns

Six Syllable Types

Prefixes and Suffixes

Irregular Spellings

Homophones

Compound Words

Plurals

Math – Everyday Math Program

Naming & Constructing Geometric Figures

Organizing Data

Multiplication and Division Facts

Beginning Algebra

Decimals

Estimation

Multi-digit Multiplication

Multi-digit Division

Fractions & Their Uses

Chance & Probability

Perimeter and Area

Percents

Reflections & Symmetry

3-D Shapes, Weight, Volume, Capacity

Rates

Problem Solving

Multi-step Word Problems

Science may include the following units:

Weather

States of Matter

Plants

Forces and Motion

Land and Water

Earth Materials

Social Studies may include the following units:

Regions of the USA

Warm Deserts

Arctic/Polar Regions

Tropical Rain Forests

Deciduous Forests

Vermont – History and Economy

Current Events