4th Grade Curriculum At A Glance

Quin 1

Reading

Writing

Math

Science

Florida History

Reading Literature: Key Ideas and Details

 

Describing characters, settings, and events

 

Theme

 

Summarizing

 

Inferring

 

 

Reading Informational: Key Ideas and Details

 

Main Idea and Details

 

Historical, Technical, Scientific texts

 

Summarizing

 

Inferring

Informative/ Explanatory Writing in Response to Literature

 

Informative/ Explanatory Writing in Response to Informational

 

Pre-assessment/ Vocabulary

●Understand the question

●Establish a purpose for reading

●Read and mark the text

●Create a controlling idea statement

●Plan

Organize evidence

Create topic sentences

●Write essay

Body paragraphs

▪Elaboration

▪Transitions

▪Sentence structure

Introductions

Conclusions

●Edit and revise

 

 

Establishing Classroom Routines

 

Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction

 

Interpret Multiplication

and Division

 

Operations to Solve Problems

Practice of Science

 

Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge

 

Role of Theories, Laws, Hypotheses, and Models

 

Earth in Space and Time

 

Earth Structures

Historical Inquiry and Analysis

 

Pre-Columbian Florida

 

Exploration and Settlement of Florida



Quin 2

Reading

Writing

Math

Science

Florida History

Reading Informational: Craft and Structure

 

Vocabulary

 

Text Structures: Compare and Contrast, Cause-Effect, Sequence, Problem and Solution

 

Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

 

Reading Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

 

Vocabulary

 

Point of View

 

Elements of Poetry, Plays, and Poems

 

Comparing Poems, Plays, and Prose

Opinion Writing in Response to Informational Text

 

Opinion Writing in Response To Literature

 

Opinion Writing in Response to Informational Text

 

●Understand the question

●Establish a purpose for reading

●Read and mark the text

●Create a controlling idea statement

●Plan

Organize evidence

Create topic sentences

●Write essay

Body paragraphs

▪Elaboration

▪Transitions

▪Sentence structure

Introductions

Conclusions

●Edit and revise

Factors, Multiples, and Patterns

 

Fraction Equivalence

and Comparison

 

Add and Subtract Fractions

 

Multiply Fractions

by Whole Numbers

Properties of Matter

 

Change in Matter

 

Forms of Energy

Foundations of Government, Law, and the American Political System

 

Civic and Political Participation:

Protecting and Insuring

 

Structure and Function of Government:

Earning Income



Quin 3

Reading

Writing

Math

Science

Florida History

Reading Literature:

Key Ideas and Details; Craft and Structure

 

Comparing Topics and Themes

Comparing Patterns of Events

 

Reading Informational:

Key Ideas and Details; Craft and Structure

 

Text Features

 

Author’s Reasons and Evidence

 

Integrating Information from Two sources

Informative/Explanatory Writing in Response to Literature

 

Opinion Writing in Response to Literature

 

Opinion Writing in Response to Informational Text

Relate Fractions and Decimals

 

Perimeter and Area

 

Measurement Problem Solving - Earning Income, Buying Goods and Services, Saving, Using Credit, Financial Investing, and Protecting and Insuring

 

Two-Dimensional Figures

 

Angles

Energy Transfer and Transformations

 

Motion of Objects

 

Heredity and Reproduction (Plants)

Exploration and Settlement of Florida: Growth of Florida

 

Crisis of the Union: Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida

 

 

Industrialization and Emergence of Modern Florida:

Beginning Economics

Buying Goods and Services

 

Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and WWII in Florida

Contemporary Florida



Quin 4

Reading

Writing

Math

Science

Florida History

Reading Literature: Interdisciplinary Learning

 

Reading Informational: Interdisciplinary Learning

Narrative Writing in Conjunction With Literature

 

Research Writing in Response to Informational Text

Skills preparing for 5th grade:

 

Multiply and Divide Whole Numbers

 

Numerical Expressions

 

Understand Place Value

Heredity and Reproduction

(Behaviors and Cycles)

 

Interdependence

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