ELA 4th Grade Language

Description

• Use knowledge of grade-appropriate affixes (e.g., dis-, in-, mis-, -ion, -less, -ment), base words (e.g., arm, fear), and Greek and Latin roots (e.g., act, graph) in order to predict the meanings of unfamiliar or complex words (e.g., fearless, biography)

• Relate grade-appropriate words to their synonyms (e.g., tale/story/myth, fearful/afraid/terrified) and describe how they differ slightly in meaning

• Use grade-appropriate general academic vocabulary, including words that indicate precise actions, emotions, and states of being (e.g., whined, loneliness, peacefulness) as well as grade-appropriate content-area vocabulary (e.g., wildlife, adapt, habitat) correctly in context

• Use the correct homophones (e.g., weave/we've) and homographs/multiple-meaning words (e.g., sentence, crowd) and determine their meanings in grade- appropriate texts using sentence context or prior knowledge of spellings

• Explain the meanings of simple similes, metaphors, and uses of exaggeration (e.g., as bright as the sun, a ton of homework) in grade-appropriate texts