4th Grade -
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"What should my child know and be able to do at the end of 4th grade?"
Importance of
Communication and Math Skills
No subjects in school are more important to a student’s
future success than reading, writing, and mathematics. Without these skills,
students will have a more difficult time learning in the next grade.
They must know how to use reading, writing, and math in all their school
subjects, including art, music, science, social studies, health, and physical
education. Our district has identified the most important for success in
the next grade.
This page describes what we want your child to learn in
reading, writing, and math by the end of the year. It may give you some
ideas about specific skills you would like to help your child practice.
As you will see, our expectations are high. There may be content, such
as geometry, that you would not have expected so early in your child’s
education. There may also be terms which are unfamiliar to you.
If there are parts you are unsure of, please ask your child’s teacher for more
information.
One of our goals as a school district is to have as many
children as possible reach these expectations – or learn even more – by the end
of each school year.
Communication Skills –
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By the end of 4th grade, a student should know the following:
Develop word knowledge and reading strategies
- Skim printed material to find main
ideas and organizational pattern.
- Use knowledge of word origins,
common roots, prefixes, and suffixes in reading new words.
- Skim printed material to find main
ideas and organizational pattern.
- Read quickly and accurately enough
to make sense of the writing.
- Read aloud with expression.
Understand the meaning of what is read
- Retell stories and information in
own words.
- Determine main ideas and supporting
evidence in informational writing.
- Identify story elements, such as
plot, setting, and character development.
- Begin to understand figurative
language, such as metaphor and personification.
- Use knowledge of print features and
language to read and understand a variety of materials.
Build habits of a thoughtful reader
- Read independently on a daily basis.
- Read a variety of print materials
such as novels, short stories, atlases, newspapers, and electronic print
- Identify his/her own reading
strengths and areas for growth.
Write clearly and effectively
- Choose ideas and supporting
information based on the audience and purpose for writing.
- Draw conclusions.
- Create a clear beginning, middle,
and end.
- Organize paragraphs by time or order
of importance.
- Choose words and phrasing
appropriate for the subject.
- Know to capitalize to indicate
special categories, such as names of publications or works of art.
- Spell words appropriate for fourth
grade correctly.
- Understand and apply punctuation to
make reading clear and easy.
- Write neatly for others to read.
Use processes and habits of a thoughtful writer
- Plan the order of the ideas and
details in a piece of writing.
- Use technology tools that help with
the writing process.
- Revise to make the writing more
effective, interesting, or clear.
- Use resources such as a computer
spellchecker to proofread for accuracy.
- Share writing with others.
- Maintain a journal of personal
writing, notes, observations, questions, ideas.
Math Concepts and Skills
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By the end of 4th grade, a student should know the following:
Number Sense and Computation
- Break down any four-digit number
into multiples of 1, 10, 100, and 1000.
- Classify numbers according to their
characteristics, such as odd, even, or multiple of three.
- Illustrate with concrete objects
and/or pictures the meanings of common fractions such as 1/4, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3,
and decimal fractions, .1, .01.
learn
this skill
- Show understanding of basic
strategies for adding and subtracting decimals by lining up like-place values.
learn
this skill
- Multiply and divide single-digit
numbers.
- Develop and use strategies to
estimate quantity.
Measurement
- Know approximate size of basic
standard units (
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this skill
- Select and use appropriate standard tools,
such as a ruler, yardstick, scale, thermometer, and
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this skill
- Construct a simple scale drawing.
Cutout
Exercise – 3 Dimensional Pyramid
Activities
for Kids – Using Metrics
Geometric Sense
- Identify and describe attributes of
two- and three-dimensional geometric figures using appropriate words such as
parallel, symmetric, congruent, similar, and perpendicular.
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this skill
- Identify the location of points on a
map or coordinate grid with ordered pairs.
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this skill
- Describe the movement and
orientation of objects using simple transformation language, such as slide,
flip, turn.
Probability and Statistics
- Choose and use an efficient method
for collecting data, for example, observation, surveys, or measurements.
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this skill
- Choose an effective way of
organizing and displaying data, such as a table, circle graph, or bar graph.
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this skill
- Interpret, compare, and analyze data
displayed in graphs, T-tables, and other pictorial representations.
learn
this skill
- Describe the likelihood of an event
occurring, using terms such as unlikely, very likely, impossible.
- Systematically conduct a simple
probability experiments and compare the results to predictions of likelihood.
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this skill
Algebraic Sense – (Patterns and Functions)
- Show basic understanding that
variables (boxes, letters, other symbols) can be used to represent unknowns.
learn
this skill
- Represent simple equations (5 + ___
= 7) concretely or pictorially. Break
down any four-digit number into multiples of 1, 10, 100, and 1000.