Harrison County Schools

Reading/Language Arts Curriculum Map

 

Grade 4 – 3rd Six Weeks

 

 


 

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3rd Marking Period

CSOs

 

Genre Choice

RLA 4.1.3

Fiction  (3-4 weeks)    

REALISTIC FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION

NON-FICTION  (2-3 weeks)

INFORMATIONAL TEXT

Articles, Graphs, Newspapers, Web pages

POETRY (Optional)

Text

Comprehension

RLA 4.1.4 

RLA 4.1.5

RLA 4.1.3

4.1.4  FACT AND OPINION

4.1.5 LANGUAGE USE:  TSW use similes, metaphors, idioms, analogies and puns

4.1.3 ELEMENTS OF NON-FICTION:  TSW distinguish characteristics of fiction/non-fiction

TSW identify text features specific to the organization of non-fiction text      (titles, pictures, captions)

Strategies

RLA 4.1.4

4.1.4 IMAGERY AND PARAPHRASING

TSW Visualize and use other senses while listening to poems

Word Study

RLA 4.1.1

4.1.1 MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS:  TSW Explore words with multiple meanings

Vocabulary

RLA 4.2.7

RLA 4.1.5

4.2.7CONVENTIONS OF SPELLING:  TSW use contractions and compound words

4.1.5 LANGUAGE USE:  TSW recognize puns and idioms

Fluency

RLA 4.1.9

4.1.9 FLUENCY AND EXPRESSION:  TSW read with fluency and expression silently or orally

Writing Process

 

RLA 4.2.2

RLA 4.2.3

RLA 4.2.11

TSW utilize focused composition, coherent and logical progress of ideas, correct page format (title, paragraphs, margins, indentions)    

TSW write a 5 paragraph essay

Grammar

RLA 4.2.9

TSW use conventions of punctuation in written composition

TSW continue parts of speech:  Text / Overhead / Games

Handwriting

 

RLA4.2.1

 

RLA4.2.1CURSIVE:  TSW continue to review uniformity

TSW demonstrate proper posture, paper, placement and grip

Spelling 

RLA 4.2.7

4.2.7 CONVENTIONS:  TSW use conventions of spelling (high frequency words, commonly misspelled words, syllable construction, vowel combinations, contractions, compound words, root prefixes and suffixes

Ongoing

RLA 4.1.1

RLA 4.1.2

RLA 4.1.3

RLA 4.1.4

RLA 4.1.5

RLA 4.1.7

RLA 4.1.8

RLA 4.1.9

RLA 4.1.10

RLA 4.1.11

RLA 4.1.12

RLA 4.1.13

4.1.1            multiple meaning words (antonyms & synonyms, homonyms, content area vocabulary, context clues)

4.1.2            apply structural analysis and context clues to decode and encode words

4.1.3            recognize a variety of genres (fairy tales, folk-tales, fiction, nonfiction, myths, poems, fables, fantasies, biographies, autobiographies, chapter books)

4.1.4            comprehension skills to understand literacy works (summarize, story elements, skim and scan, define expository text, compare/contrast, imagery, paraphrase, compose personal response, infer, fact and opinion, sequence)

4.1.5            recognize the way in which language is used in literary texts (simile, metaphor, idioms, analogies, puns)

4.1.7            use meaning clues to aid comprehension and                                             make predictions about content across the

curriculum (pictures, picture captions, titles, story structure, story topic, action-events-character behaviors)

4.1.8            read with accuracy and comprehension

instructional level text (search for cues, identify miscues, reread)

4.1.9            read orally with fluent expression literary texts

across the curriculum

read silently literary texts ATC

4.1.10          determine a purpose for reading ATC

4.1.11          summarize the author’s purpose (to persuade, inform, determine a specific viewpoint)

4.1.12          compare connections between characters or simple events in a literary work in own life and other cultures (text-self, text-text, text-world)

4.1.13          increase amount of independent reading time

 

Speaking / Listening

Viewing

RLA4.3.1

RLA4.3.2

RLA4.3.1 LISTEN AND RESPOND:  TSW listen and respond to familiar stories and poems

RLA4.3.2  VISUAL MEDIA:  TSW define a variety of messages conveyed through visual media

Glossary of Terms

Historical Fiction – Set in a real time and place of the past; include actual historical figures and includes events that really happened and some made up

Benchmark

Reading Level

Rigby

26-27

F & P

Q - R

Lexiles

700-799

DRA

44

 

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