Language Arts
Language Arts Program 2022-2023
The Language Arts program is designed to provide students with opportunities to engage in reading, writing, speaking, viewing and representing to share ideas, feelings and experiences and think critically through the use of literature positive conversations which helps to build a sense of community.
Reading Strategies to focus on:
In grade 4 we will focus on 3 different types of writing (Creative Narratives, How To Informational Writing, and Persuasive Writing). With each type of writing we will focus on using the 6+1 Traits of writing:
IDEAS- focus and develop an idea in writing that offers a main theme and a story lineORGANIZATION- the structure of writing and the ability to organize ideas and have a good sense of sequenceVOICE-writer's create a message that is clear and provides an emotional response to the readerWORD CHOICE-using words that help add details in writing, evoke feeling and creates a vivid picture in the readers mindSENTENCE FLUENCY-rhythm and flow of the language in writing, using a variety of sentences lengthsCONVENTIONS- mechanics of writing (capitalization, punctuation, grammar, paragraph writing)
The Language Arts program is designed to provide students with opportunities to engage in reading, writing, speaking, viewing and representing to share ideas, feelings and experiences and think critically through the use of literature positive conversations which helps to build a sense of community.
Reading Strategies to focus on:
- MAKE CONNECTIONS- make connections to self, to text and to the world
- PREDICTIONS- using clues in text, make a guess or prediction what may happen next in text
- INFERRING- using background knowledge and clues in text to understand text more deeply
- CLARIFY- questioning, does the text make sense, what are the difficult words or ideas,
- SUMMARIZE- Identify the main events of the text, what is the message the author is trying to tell us
- QUESTIONING- Ask questions before, during, after reading
In grade 4 we will focus on 3 different types of writing (Creative Narratives, How To Informational Writing, and Persuasive Writing). With each type of writing we will focus on using the 6+1 Traits of writing:
IDEAS- focus and develop an idea in writing that offers a main theme and a story lineORGANIZATION- the structure of writing and the ability to organize ideas and have a good sense of sequenceVOICE-writer's create a message that is clear and provides an emotional response to the readerWORD CHOICE-using words that help add details in writing, evoke feeling and creates a vivid picture in the readers mindSENTENCE FLUENCY-rhythm and flow of the language in writing, using a variety of sentences lengthsCONVENTIONS- mechanics of writing (capitalization, punctuation, grammar, paragraph writing)
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