4th grade

ELA

🎯 Unit 8 

❓How do Earth’s natural processes impact our lives?

Reading

🎯 I can explain why readers analyze text structure, use context clues, and pay attention to graphic features.

🎯 I can read to identify key details to summarize the main idea.

🎯 I can use understanding of cause/effect relationships to respond to a close reading prompt.

🎯 I can reread a text to find text evidence and draw an inference from the evidence.

🎯 I can integrate information from two texts. 

Word Study

🎯 I can use context clues and references to determine the technical meanings of words.

🎯 I can use Greek and Latin roots to read unfamiliar words. 

Writing

🎯 I can write an engaging introduction for my informative report. 

🎯 I can use specific details to develop my informative report topic. 

🎯 I can use linking words and phrases to connect ideas.

🎯 I can write a concluding statement. 

🎯 I can correctly use relative adverbs.

Social Studies

Southwest

EQ: What Factors shaped the culture of the Southwest?

🎯 Apply map skills to locate nine important places in the Southwest.

🎯 Describe the major physical and human features of the Southwest.

Math 

 Unit 5: Decimals, Distance, Time, Volume, Mass and Money

🎯 Solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money.

🎯Solve problems involving conversion of measurements.

🎯Represent measurement quantities using diagrams.

Science

Investigation 2

What affects magnetic force?

 🎯 Part 1: What materials sticks to magnets?

🎯 Part 2: What happens when two or more magnets interact? What happens when a piece of iron comes close to touches a permanent magnet?

🎯 Part 3: What is the effect on the force of attraction between two magnets as the distance between them changes?