Fourth Grade

Language Arts/English Standards

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

1.1	Students can read a grade level passage aloud fluently and accurately.
1.2	Students can use synonyms, antonyms, and where words came from to help them understand the meanings of new words.
1.3	Students can use root words came from to help me understand the meanings of new words.
1.6	Students know more than one meaning for some words.

2.0 Reading Comprehension

2.3	Students can use what they know and what they read in the text to guess what will happen next.
2.5	Students compare and contrast information on the same topic after reading several passages or articles.
2.6	Students can explain a cause and effect relationship and tell the difference between fact and opinion in expository text.
2.7	Students can follow three or more directions in a basic technical manual in order to complete a task.

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

3.2	Students can identify the main events of plot, their causes, and the influence of each event on future actions of a story.
3.3

1.0 Writing Strategies

1.1	Students can organize their writing to be understandable to their audience.
1.2	Students can write a 3-5 paragraph essay with an introduction, supporting paragraphs with topic sentences, a conclusion, and use correct indentation.
1.3	Students can organize their writing in several ways: in order, using cause and effect, showing same or differences, or asking and then answering a question.
1.10	Students can edit and revise selected drafts to improve coherence and progression by adding, deleting, consolidating, and rearranging text.

2.0 Writing Applications

2.1	Students can write personal narratives that relate ideas, observations, or recollections of events supported by sensory detail and an explanation for why the event was memorable.
2.2.	Students can write responses to literature that demonstrate an understanding of literary work and are supported by references to both text and prior knowledge.
2.3	Students can write information reports that frame a central question about an issue or situation and includes facts and details. Students can draw from more than one source of information.
2.4	Students can write summaries that contain the main ideas of the reading selection and the most significant details.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.2	Students can write sentences using appositives, participle phrases, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
1.4	Students can write using quotations, apostrophes, and parentheses.
1.7	Students can spell grade level words correctly.

2.0 Listening and Speaking

2.2	Students can present information orally that I have learned from different sources.
2.3	Students can orally summarize a topic using important details.

Mathematics Standards

Number Sense

1.1	Students can read and write numbers up to and in the millions.
1.2	Students can compare and put in order whole numbers.
1.3	Students can round whole numbers through the millions to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, or hundred thousand.
1.4	Students can decide when decide when a rounded solution is needed.
1.8	Students show that they know the concepts of negative numbers.
1.9	Students can find how far fro a given number a positive fraction is on a number line. They can also show how far from a given number a positive mixed number is, or how far from a given number a positive decimal to two decimal places.
2.2	Students can round two-place decimals to one decimal or the nearest whole number. They can judge whether their rounded answer is close.
3.1	Students understand and can do standard problems in addition and subtraction of multi-digit numbers.
3.2	Students understand and accurately use standard algorithms for multiplying a multi-digit number by a two-digit number. They understand and accurately use standard algorithms for dividing a multi-digit number by a one-digit number. They can use relationships between algorithms to simplify computations and to check results.
3.3	Students correctly solve multiplication problems involving multi-digit numbers multiplied by two-digits numbers.
3.4	Students can correctly solve problems involving division of multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers.
4.1	Students know numbers can be shown in different ways.

Algebra

1.2	Students can solve math problems that have parentheses.
1.3	Students know parentheses tell me when to add, subtract, multiply, or divide.
1.5	Students understand that an equation such as y=3x + 5 is a formula for determining a second number when a first number is given.
2.1	Students know and understand that equals added to equals are equal.
2.2	Students know and understand that equals multiplied by equals are equals.

Measurement/Geometry

1.1	Students can measure the area of rectangular shapes by using the appropriate units, such as square centimeter, square kilometer, square inch, square yard, or square mile.
2.1	Students can draw the points corresponding to linear relationships on graph paper.
2.2	Students understand that that the length of a horizontal line segment equals the difference of the x-coordinates.
2.3	Students understand that the length of a vertical line segment equals the difference of the y-coordinates.
3.5	Students know the definitions of a right angle, acute angle, and an obtuse angle. They understand that 90°, 180°, 270°, and 360° are associated respectively with 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4, and full turns.
3.6	Students know the definition of different triangles.
3.8	Students know the definition of different quadrilaterals.

Mathematical Reasoning

1.1	Students can: analyze problems by identifying relationships, distinguish useful from unimportant information, put in order and prioritize information, and recognize patterns.