Units of Study for 4th Grade
Nebraska has published standards that identify what students are to know and be able to do. See this Website for Nebraska Standards - http://www.nde.state.ne.us/AcadStand.html
We want to meet and hopefully exceed those standards. Therefore, we have specific goals & objectives that we need to work on throughout the year. I have included our units of study so that you will know what is taught. I have also included a list of our District's spelling words.
Math
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Graphs & Reviewing Facts
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Place Value & Time
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Adding & Subtracting Whole Numbers & Money
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Multiplication & Division Concepts & Facts
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Multiplying by 1 & 2 digit numbers
· Dividing by 1 digit numbers
· Using Geometry
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Fractions & Customary & Metric Measurements
· Problem Solving Strategies in each unit
Language Arts
· Decode words
· Recognize Syntactic Structures
· Use Context Clues
· Recognize Word/Idiom meaning
· Identify/Use Prefixes/ Suffixes/Roots
· Identify Compounds/Contractions
· Homophones
· Preview Illustrations/opening pages
· Recognize Relevant Details
· Differentiates Between Main Idea/Detail
· Use Appropriate Reference Sources
· Use Alphabetical Order
· Use Dictionary/Thesaurus
Writing
| Descriptive | Persuasive | Friendly Letter |
| Narrative | Short story | Poetry |
We use the 6 Trait Writing Model & Assessment, which evaluates the following
areas:
| Ideas & Content | Word Choice |
| Organization | Sentence Fluency |
| Voice | Conventions |
Spelling
· Homophones
· ea; ou or ow; ou & ough; mb; /el/; /er/; /en/; ion; ie or ei
· Unusual pairs: kn and qu
· Spellings for /z/; /f/
· Patterns: vccv, vcv
· Words that end with ure
· Adding –ed and –ing; -er and –est
· Final e
· Changing final y to I
· Irregular verbs
· Compound words
· Plurals
· Suffix –y, -ly, -ful, -less,
· Prefix un-, dis-, non-
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