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English Language Arts
Journeys is our textbook. Using Journeys, we will utilize a number of strategies to help foster the love of reading with your children, which include Shared Reading, Choral Reading, Close Reading, Guided Reading, Read Alouds, Literacy Centers, etc.
Reading Skills
Main Idea
Understanding Characters
Sequence of Events
Text and Graphics Features
Story Structure
Author's Purpose
Compare and Contrast
Conclusions
Reading Strategies
Summarize
Infer and Predict
Monitor and Clarify
Question
Analyze and Evaluate
Phonics and Word Study
Early literacy concepts
Phonological awareness
Letter/sound relationships
Spelling patterns
High frequency words
Word meaning
Word structure
Word solving actions
Reader's & Writers Workshop:
We will also be implimenting a block of time during out day for building the "love for reading and writing."
Reading and writing workshops are deliberately designed to offer a simple and predictable environment so that the teacher can focus on the complex work of observing students' progress and teaching into their needs.
Each session begins with a minilesson. Kids sit with a long-term partner while in the minilesson.
The minilesson ends with the kids being sent off to their own independent work.
As students work, the teacher confers with them and leads small groups.
Partway through independent work time, the teacher stands and delivers a mid-workshop teaching point.
The workshop ends with a share.
ACCELERATED READER
ACCELERATED READER
Pioneer School uses the Accelerated Reader (AR) program to help promote and encourage readers at all levels to strive to meet personal goals. Incentives and rewards are used for students who meet their goals. This program is also a way to monitor their independent reading practice. AR’s advanced technology helps:
Make essential reading practice more effective for every student.
Personalize reading practice to each student’s current level.
Manage all reading activities including read to, read with, and read independently.
Assess students’ reading with four types of quizzes: Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Textbook Quizzes.
Build a lifelong love of reading and learning.
Writing
Writing improves communication skills and provides a vehicle for expression and communication. Diligent writing practice will boost both skill and comfort level with revealing and relating their own thoughts and feelings. Daily writing encourages a creative flow that can help students use their imaginations, explore possibilities, delve into problem solving, and engage in storytelling. It is also important to practice good handwriting with your Fourth Grader DAILY.
Units of Study in Writing
Fall - Narrative Writing
Winter - Opinion Writing
Spring - Informative Writing
Parents:
In classrooms across urban and suburban schools of varying ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic characteristics, Swun Math closes achievement gaps and explodes student learning; below proficient students grow to proficiency and proficient students grow to advanced status.
Swun Math is rooted in a dynamic lesson design, embodying best teaching practices that incorporate Gradual Release of Responsibility and Zone of Proximal Development research. Swun Math analyzes district, school, and classroom data to provide concise and effective lessons for students to achieve mastery in content based on the Common Core State Standards in mathematics.
Year after year, Swun Math has proven to be a highly effective model for closing the achievement gap and moving schools out of Program Improvement.
Mathematical Practices
1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4) Model with mathematics.
5) Use appropriate tools strategically.
6) Attend to precision.
7) Look for and make use of structure.
8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
SWUN : Mathematical Units of Study
please click the links on the parent letters below for further information in great detail for all of the FOURTH grade SWUN units we cover over the year. Each parent letter will give you info on the Common Core Standards, Math Practices, Vocabulary, Key Concepts, and examples of math problems your child will be learning.
Studies Weekly
Studies Weekly
This history/social studies program is a standards based, balanced cross-curricular program that teaches students explore deeper into history while integrating language arts. We will use engaging and colorful weekly newsprint articles (weekly flyers) that students will use for reading and hands-on activities, then take home. Students will also have access to the digital component of the program where they can delve deeper into history through a platform of pictures, videos, and text. The newsprint weekly readers will probe deeper thinking and questioning so students truly experience historical events.
They are interactive, engaging and a fun format for kids to learn all about our wonderful state of California!
IXL COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR: MATH
*IXL offers personalized skill recommendations based on what each student has been practicing, so they can grow from where they are.
*IXL's Continuous Diagnostic gathers as much information as possible about students' knowledge in order to recommend the skills that will challenge them at just the right level and help them grow the most. By using IXL to direct students to what they are most ready for at any given point in time, you'll help them achieve more, faster.
*IXL's skills are aligned to the California Common Core Content Standards and provides comprehensive coverage of math concepts and applications.
JIJI MATH
JIJI MATH
Primary students will have access to this computer program, which uses spatial and temporal reasoning to present and teach mathematical concepts. The JiJi MIND Institute Program offers:
Innovative visual approach teaches math concepts
Comprehensive coursework aligns to state standards
Increases state standardized test scores for students
Game metaphor engages students who have struggled with conventional approaches in math and learning
Language-independent software lessons reduce the language barrier to learning math
RAMP™ instructional design reaches students at every level of academic proficiency
Innovative games train students in multi-step problem-solving
Self-paced coursework makes teaching easier and more productive
The link to the JIJI website is in the wesite resources tab (stmath.com)
Physical Education:
Physical education is an instructional priority for TRUSD. At Pioneer, every student, regardless of disability, ethnicity, gender, native language, race, religion, or sexual orientation is entitled to a high-quality physical education program. Our PE lessons aim to promote among students a life-long desire to maintain physical fitness. All activities are based on the California Physical Education Frameworks and Standards.
IMAGINE LEARNING
IMAGINE LEARNING
Imagine Learning is your language and literacy solution, providing award-winning educational software to hundreds of thousands of students in schools across the United States and around the world. Students receive one-on-one instruction through thousands of engaging activities specifically designed to meet their individual needs and provide real results.
Imagine Learning offers Language and Literacy support for
English learners
Struggling readers
Students with disabilities
Early childhood education students
Amplify Science is a K–8 science curriculum that blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers to investigate real-world problems through which students will investigate phenomena.
Each unit of Amplify Science engages students in a relevant, real-world problem where they investigate scientific phenomena, engage in collaboration and discussion, and develop models or explanations in order to arrive at solutions.
Amplify Science is rooted in the Lawrence Hall of Science’s Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize model of learning. This research-based approach presents students with multiple modalities through which to explore the NGSS curriculum.
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