4th Grade Reading Standards: Foundational Skills - 4RF
Key Ideas and Details
4R1: Locate and refer to relevant details and evidence when explaining what a text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences. (RI&RL)
4R2: Determine a theme or central idea of text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize a text. (RI&RL)
4R3: In literary texts, describe a character, setting, or event, drawing on specific details in the text. (RL) In informational texts, explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts, including what happened and why, based on specific evidence from the text. (RI)
Craft and Structure
4R4: Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, academic, and content-specific words. (RI&RL)
4R5: In literary texts, identify and analyze structural elements, using terms such as verse, rhythm, meter, characters, settings, dialogue, stage directions. (RL) In informational texts, identify the overall structure using terms such as sequence, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. (RI)
4R6: In literary texts, compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. (RL) In informational texts, compare and contrast a primary and secondary source on the same event or topic. (RI)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
4R7: Identify information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, illustrations), and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text. (RI&RL)
4R8: Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence. (RI&RL) 4R9: Recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and situations. (RI&RL)
Print Concepts
RF1: There is not a grade 4 standard for this concept. Please see the preceding grades for more information.
Phonological Concepts
RF2: There is not a grade 4 standard for this concept. Please see the preceding grades for more information.
Phonics and Word Recognition
4RF3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
4RF3a: Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication
patterns, and morphology (e.g, roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar
multisyllabic words in context and out of context.
Fluency
4RF4: Read grade-level text with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
4RF4a: Read grade-level text across genres orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and
expression on successive readings.
4RF4b: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding
rereading as necessary