Reading

Students are currently using the reader, The Road to Independence. It includes complex text and prepares the students for increased vocabulary understanding that go along with the reading. The Road to Independence focuses on important events and students will examine the sequence of this events in order to determine cause and effect.

  • Read grade level text with purpose and understanding
  • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
  • Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what a text says explicitly and when drawing infrerences from the text
  • Explain event, ideas or concepts in a historical text including what happened
  • Determine the meaning of academic and domain specific words or phrases in a text releveant to a Grade 4 topic