Subject Overviews

Reading

• Read grade level text with fluency and comprehension. 

• Analyze a variety of text to make predictions, summarize story events, compare and contrast characters and plots. 

• Determine the plot (problem, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).

• Support main/central idea with text evidence.

Writing

• Use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). 

• Publish the following text types: Personal Narratives, Narrative Fiction, Opinion and Literary Essays, Written responses to text questions.

• Organize writing in paragraphs.  

• Correctly use punctuation marks: commas, quotations marks, and apostrophes.  

• Write in complete sentences that include correct subject and verb agreement. 

• Writing legibly in cursive. 

Math

• Decompose a fraction in more than one way into a sum of fractions with the same denominator using concrete and pictorial models and recording results with symbolic representations.

• Represent the value of the digit in whole numbers through 1,000,000,000 and decimals to the hundredths using expanded notation and numerals; relate decimals to fractions that name tenths and hundredths

• Solve problems related to the perimeter and area of rectangles where dimensions are whole numbers.

• Solve problems that deal with measurements of length, intervals of time, liquid volumes, mass, and money using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division as appropriate.

•  interpret the value of each place-value position as 10 times the position to the right and as one-tenth of the value of the place to its left;

• Represent decimals, including tenths and hundredths, using concrete and visual models and money; compare and order decimals using concrete and visual models to the hundredths;  determine the corresponding decimal to the tenths or hundredths place of a specified point on a number line.

• Determine if two given fractions are equivalent using a variety of methods;  represent fractions and decimals to the tenths or hundredths as distances from zero on a number line.

• Use models to determine the formulas for the perimeter of a rectangle (l + w + l + w or 2l + 2w), including the special form for the perimeter of a square (4s) and the area of a rectangle (l x w).

Science

• Use scientific inquiry methods during laboratory and outdoor investigations.

• The different states of matter, their characteristics, and how they can change from one form to another.

• The different forms of energy: Mechanical, Thermal, Light, and Sound.

• The characteristics of insulators and conductors.

• How to construct a simple circuit.

• Earth consists of useful resources and its surface is constantly changing.

• Make informed choices in the use and conservation of natural resources and reusing and recycling of materials such as paper, aluminum, glass, cans, and plastic.

• Represent the natural world using models such as the water cycle and stream tables and identify their limitations, including accuracy and size

• There are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among the Sun, Earth, and Moon systems.

• Animal and Plant adaptations to be better suited for their environment.

Social Studies

In 4th grade we study Texas History: 

• The origins, similarities, and differences of American Indian groups in Texas. 

• The the causes and effects of European exploration and colonization of Texas and North America. 

• The importance of the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, and the annexation of Texas to the United States. 

• Settlement patterns in Texas. 

• Economic activities in Texas.