Fourth Grade At A Glance

What Will We Learn In Fourth Grade?

MATH: Envision

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Common Core Domains

Number and Operations in Base 10
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations - Fractions
Measurement and Data
Geometry

Reading

Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teaching Reading

Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story (Fiction)
Reading the Weather, Reading the World (Nonfiction)
Reading History: The American Revolution (Nonfiction)
Historical Fiction Clubs (Fiction)
Supplemental Units: Poetry, Traditional Literature (Myths)

Writing

Lucy Calkins Units of Study in Opinion, Information and Narrative Writing

The Arc of the Story: Writing Realistic Fiction (Narrative)
Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays (Opinion)
Bringing History to Life: (Informative)
Literary Essay: Writing about Fiction

Exploration

Science

Weathering and Erosion
Energy and Motion
Animal and Plant Structures and Functions
Waves and Communication
Fast Changes to the Earth

Social Studies

Map Skills
Landforms
Regions

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