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Fourth Grade Curriculum Map
Reading
· Read, identify, and understand a variety of literary genres.
· Summarize a text and determine its central theme.
· Determine the main idea of a text and provide evidence from the text to support it.
· Explain how facts and details support a main idea.
· Explain how text features (i.e. diagrams, charts, and graphs) enhance understanding.
· Ask and answer inferential and high-order questions based on the text.
· Apply literary skills (author’s purpose, making connections, and drawing conclusions of a story).
· Identify story elements of setting, character, plot, and theme.
· Develop the following reading skills: sequencing, predicting, inferences, facts/opinions, summarizing, cause and effect, and compare and contrast.
· Determine the meaning of new words using context clues and resources.
· Read aloud with fluency, accuracy, and expression.
Language Arts & Writing
· Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs as they are used.
· Use grade-appropriate vocabulary.
· Write well-constructed paragraphs that include a topic sentence, main idea, supporting details, and closing sentence.
· Edit and revise drafts to improve writing.
· Describe the setting, characters, objects, and events of a story with detail.
· Write the following: personal narrative, explanatory essay, persuasive essay, and a research paper.
· Use parts of speech correctly.
· Apply accurate spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
· Exhibit appropriate listening and speaking skills.
· Reinforce and practice cursive style of handwriting.
Religion & Character Formation
· Grow in the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, and morality and learn to apply them in every day situations.
· Know and understand the Church’s belief in the Real Presence of the Holy Eucharist.
· Demonstrate a basic understanding of Catholic doctrine and dogma in light of the Creed.
· Identify and categorize the 20 mysteries of the Rosary.
· Prepare for and participate in liturgical celebrations (i.e. weekly Masses, nursing home Masses, visits to the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration, the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and feast days).
· Identify and retell different Bible stories from the New and Old Testaments.
· Locate passages in the Bible according to books, chapters, and verses.
· Identify and explore the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes.
· Discuss and learn about the lives of the Saints.
Mathematics
· Identify and compare whole numbers through the millions.
· Generate and analyze patterns.
· Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers.
· Develop understanding of multi-digit dividends by one-digit divisors.
· Develop knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division rules and properties.
Demonstrate knowledge of equivalent fractions.
· Compare and order whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, improper fractions, and decimals.
Multiply a fraction by a whole number.
· Demonstrate knowledge of customary and metric measurements.
Social Studies
· Use maps and other geographical resources to gather information.
· Understand producer/consumer relationships between states.
· Locate all 50 states and capitals of the United States.
· Describe and identify the development and settlement patterns of the U.S. colonies.
· Identify the causes of the American Revolution.
· Understand main ideas and key concepts of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.
Science
· Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals.
· Describe relationships among various organisms in their environment (i.e. predator/prey, parasite/host, food chains and food webs).
· Describe and compare types of energy (light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical).
· Explain the properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
· Describe weather and its effect on Earth’s climate.
· Demonstrate understanding of the major organs and body systems of the human body.
· Explain and build series and parallel circuits.
· Demonstrate and explain ways that forces cause actions and reactions.
· Explain how science and technology affect our daily life.
Learn and use safety procedures
Reading
· Read, identify, and understand a variety of literary genres.
· Summarize a text and determine its central theme.
· Determine the main idea of a text and provide evidence from the text to support it.
· Explain how facts and details support a main idea.
· Explain how text features (i.e. diagrams, charts, and graphs) enhance understanding.
· Ask and answer inferential and high-order questions based on the text.
· Apply literary skills (author’s purpose, making connections, and drawing conclusions of a story).
· Identify story elements of setting, character, plot, and theme.
· Develop the following reading skills: sequencing, predicting, inferences, facts/opinions, summarizing, cause and effect, and compare and contrast.
· Determine the meaning of new words using context clues and resources.
· Read aloud with fluency, accuracy, and expression.
Language Arts & Writing
· Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs as they are used.
· Use grade-appropriate vocabulary.
· Write well-constructed paragraphs that include a topic sentence, main idea, supporting details, and closing sentence.
· Edit and revise drafts to improve writing.
· Describe the setting, characters, objects, and events of a story with detail.
· Write the following: personal narrative, explanatory essay, persuasive essay, and a research paper.
· Use parts of speech correctly.
· Apply accurate spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
· Exhibit appropriate listening and speaking skills.
· Reinforce and practice cursive style of handwriting.
Religion & Character Formation
· Grow in the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, and morality and learn to apply them in every day situations.
· Know and understand the Church’s belief in the Real Presence of the Holy Eucharist.
· Demonstrate a basic understanding of Catholic doctrine and dogma in light of the Creed.
· Identify and categorize the 20 mysteries of the Rosary.
· Prepare for and participate in liturgical celebrations (i.e. weekly Masses, nursing home Masses, visits to the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration, the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and feast days).
· Identify and retell different Bible stories from the New and Old Testaments.
· Locate passages in the Bible according to books, chapters, and verses.
· Identify and explore the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes.
· Discuss and learn about the lives of the Saints.
Mathematics
· Identify and compare whole numbers through the millions.
· Generate and analyze patterns.
· Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers.
· Develop understanding of multi-digit dividends by one-digit divisors.
· Develop knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division rules and properties.
Demonstrate knowledge of equivalent fractions.
· Compare and order whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, improper fractions, and decimals.
Multiply a fraction by a whole number.
· Demonstrate knowledge of customary and metric measurements.
Social Studies
· Use maps and other geographical resources to gather information.
· Understand producer/consumer relationships between states.
· Locate all 50 states and capitals of the United States.
· Describe and identify the development and settlement patterns of the U.S. colonies.
· Identify the causes of the American Revolution.
· Understand main ideas and key concepts of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.
Science
· Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals.
· Describe relationships among various organisms in their environment (i.e. predator/prey, parasite/host, food chains and food webs).
· Describe and compare types of energy (light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical).
· Explain the properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
· Describe weather and its effect on Earth’s climate.
· Demonstrate understanding of the major organs and body systems of the human body.
· Explain and build series and parallel circuits.
· Demonstrate and explain ways that forces cause actions and reactions.
· Explain how science and technology affect our daily life.
Learn and use safety procedures