4th Grade Language Arts Unit 1-Sentences Ideas-Six Trait Writing 4-6 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit
Writing • Use an effective writing process Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narratives Penmanship: • Write in cursive
Content (5-Day Planner)
Writing: • Writing sentences • Declarative, interrogative , imperative, and exclamatory sentences • Subjects and predicates • Time order • Friendly letter • Main idea • Prewriting • Filler Conventions: • Use end punctuation-period, question mark, exclamation point • Write simple and compound sentences • Capitalization Speaking, listening and viewing • Telling about an event Spelling:
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • Identify and write complete sentences • Identify and write declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences • Identify and write subjects and predicates in sentences • Recognize that a thesaurus contains a list of synonyms and antonyms • Use a thesaurus to replace given words with appropriate synonyms
• Become familiar with a pictograph • Identify and use time order words • Write given sentences in paragraph form in correct time order • Identify parts of a friendly letter • Write a friendly letter • Use a thesaurus to improve word choice • Identify first-person point of view • Use a variety of prewriting strategies • Focus on a main idea • Understand the difference between common details and unusual details • Eliminate filler from writing Conventions: • Capitalize the first word of a sentence and use correct end punctuation. Speaking, Listening and viewing • Recognize that details in a story are told in order • Use guidelines for telling and listening to an event. Penmanship: • Write in cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment Resources Strands
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Unit pre and post test from Silver Burdett Ginn Six-Trait Writing rubrics Silver Burdett Ginn Write Traits: Six Trait Writing MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
Unit 2-Nouns Organization-Six Trait Writing 4-6 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit
Writing • Use an effective writing process Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Content (5-Day Planner)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narrative
Writing: • Common and proper nouns • Singular and plural nouns • Singular and plural possessive nouns • Compounds • Lead • Conclusion • Organizational patterns: Step-by-step, compare and contrast, most important to least important, key points, main idea/support, chronological retelling Conventions: Speaking, listening and viewing • Facts and opinions • Cursive Spelling:
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • Identify nouns • Use nouns in writing • Identify singular and plural nouns • Form plural nouns by adding –s, -es, • Spell irregular plural nouns • Identify common and proper nouns • Write abbreviated titles and initials correctly • Form singular possessive nouns • Form plural possessive nouns • Identify and write compounds • Become familiar with blended words
• Identify main idea of a paragraph • Write groups of sentences about one main idea in paragraph form • Identify the topic sentence of a paragraph • Identify the supporting details of a paragraph • Recognize and write strong leads • Match organizational patterns with purposes for writing • Match organizational patterns with audience • Recognize and write a strong conclusion Conventions: • Capitalize the names of persons and pets • Capitalize titles of persons Speaking, Listening and viewing • Distinguish between facts and opinions • Use guidelines for stating and listening to facts and opinions Penmanship: Cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment Resources Strands
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Silver Burdett Ginn pre and post tests Six-Trait Writing rubrics Silver Burdett Ginn Write Traits: Six Trait Writing MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
Unit 3-Pronouns Voice-Six Trait Writing 4-6 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit Writing •
Use an effective writing process
Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Content (5-Day Planner)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narratives Writing: • • • • • • •
Subject pronouns Object pronouns Possessive pronouns Homophones Similies and metaphors Voice Sensory language
Speaking, listening and viewing • Poetry Penmanship: • Cursive Spelling:
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Identify pronouns Use pronouns in writing Identify and use pronouns in the subjects of sentences Identify and use pronouns in the predicates of sentences Identify and use possessive pronouns Use the pronouns I, me, we, and us correctly Identify and use homophones Become familiar with word origins Use pronouns in place of repeated nouns Develop an ear for voice Recognize different voices in writing Revise writing to include feelings, details, and sensory language
Conventions: Speaking, Listening and viewing • Appreciate poetry • Read and respond to simile and metaphor • Listen to poetry for enjoyment • Recognize and remember rhyming patterns in poetry • Use guidelines for reading and listening to poetry • Recognize different rhyming patterns in poetry • Recognize that similes are comparisons that use the words like or as • Recognize that metaphors are comparisons that tell now one thing is like another • Listen for similes and metaphors • Use a thesaurus to improve word choice Penmanship: Cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment Resources Strands
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Silver Burdett Ginn pre and post tests Six-Trait Writing rubrics Silver Burdett Ginn Write Traits: Six Trait Writing MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
Unit 5- Verbs 2-3 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit
Writing • Use an effective writing process Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narratives • Incorporate technology as a tool to enhance writing. Penmanship:
Content (5-Day Planner)
Writing: • Subject verb agreement • Irregular verbs • Contractions • Context clues • Library skills • Note taking • Outlining Conventions: Speaking, listening and viewing • Interviews • Cursive Spelling:
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • Use the present tense of verbs correctly with subjects in sentences • Identify and use the past tense of forms in irregular verbs • Recognize that some irregular verbs follow patterns • Identify, form and use pronoun contractions • Identify, form and use negative contractions • Use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase • Become familiar with onomatopoeia • Apply grammar skills to writing • Identify books of fiction non-fiction, biography, and reference • Become familiar with the library card catalog
• Locate information in an encyclopedia using key words, alphabetical order, volume numbers and the index • Take notes in one’s own words by summarizing key ideas in written material • Write an outline organizing information by main ideas and supporting details • Distinguish between important and interesting facts • Research a state • Create an outline using Inspiration • Write a research paper with 4 paragraphs about a state Conventions: Speaking, Listening and viewing • Appreciate nonfiction • Form questions for an interview • Use guidelines for conducting and responding to an interview Penmanship: Cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Powerpoint presentations Silver Burdett Ginn pre and post tests Six-Trait Writing rubrics State report rubrics
Silver Burdett Ginn
Resources
Strands
Write Traits: Six Trait Writing Teacher made materials for research paper Fifty-states.com Inspiration Microsoft Word Microsoft Powerpoint
MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
Unit 6- Adjectives 2-3 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit
Writing • Use an effective writing process Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narratives Penmanship:
Content (5-Day Planner)
Writing: • Articles • Adjectives after linking verbs • Adjectives that compare • More and most with adjectives • Adjectives with irregular comparisons • Suffixes • Space order words • Sensory words Conventions: Speaking, listening and viewing • Oral descriptions • Appreciate fiction Penmanship: • Cursive
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • Identify adjectives • Use adjectives in writing • Use articles a, an and the correctly • Identify predicate adjectives and the words they describe • Identify and use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives • Use the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of the adjectives good, bad, much and little correctly • Identify and use the adjective suffixes –y, -ful, and –less correctly
• Use space order to organize details in a paragraph • Write a paragraph in correct space order • Identify details that tell about the main idea in a paragraph • Write a paragraph that describes • Identify sensory words • Use a thesaurus to improve word choice • Write a description Conventions Speaking, Listening and viewing • Read and respond to description • Identify useful details in a description • Use guidelines for giving and listening to an oral description Penmanship: Cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment Resources Strands
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Silver Burdett Ginn pre and post tests Six-Trait Writing rubrics
Silver Burdett Ginn Write Traits: Six Trait Writing
MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
Unit 7- Adverbs 2-3 Weeks
Title and approximate length of unit
Writing • Use an effective writing process Conventions: • Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, syntax, and style appropriate to genre and writing situation
Essential Learnings (ICC)
Speaking, listening and viewing: • Consider audience and variables in the speaking situation • Produce a coherent message • Use appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context • Participate in a variety of communication situations • Demonstrate control of delivery skills • Participate appropriately in one-on-one situations and group settings • Recognize the role of evaluation in oral communication • Recognize the role of response n oral communication • Listen for information and understanding • Listen for interpretation, analysis, and evaluation • Listen to establish, maintain, and enhance relationships • Analyze the effects of visual media on society and culture • Use a range of strategies to interpret visual media • Apply a variety of criteria to evaluate informational media • Understand how literary forms can be represented in visual narratives Penmanship:
Content (5-Day Planner)
Writing: • Adverbs that tell where and when • Adverbs that compare • Words that mean “no” • Synonyms and antonyms • Parts of a story • Quotations Conventions: Speaking, listening and viewing • Acting out a story Penmanship • Cursive Spelling:
Skills (Objectives)
Writing: • Identify adverbs that tell how • Recognize the –ly suffix • Use adverbs in writing • Identify adverbs that tell where and when • Identify and use comparative and superlative forms of adverbs • Recognize not as an adverb • Avoid using double negatives • Identify synonyms and antonyms • Become familiar with words that have multiple meanings • Identify character, setting and plot of a story
Conventions: • Punctuate and capitalize quotations correctly Speaking, Listening and viewing • Demonstrate characters’ traits by acting out a story • Use guidelines for acting out and listening to a story Penmanship: Cursive
Differentiated Instruction Assessment Resources Strands
Silver Burdett Ginn-Reteaching and Enrichment worksheets Silver Burdett Ginn pre and post tests Six-Trait Writing rubrics
Silver Burdett Ginn Write Traits: Six Trait Writing
MCGF CE TI GE LS CS HOTS (Underline)
