4th Grade - First 9 Week Resources |
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Language Arts Skills: 4.3a Use context to clarify meanings of unfamiliar words. 4.3c Use knowledge of word origins, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms; and multiple meanings. 4.4c Compare the use of fact and fantasy in historical fiction with other forms of literature. 4.4d Identify major event and supporting details. 4.5a Use text organizers, such as type, headings, and graphics to predict and categorize information. 4.5b Formulate questions that might be answered in the selection. 4.5i Identify new information gained from reading. 4.7a Focus on one aspect of a topic. 4.7b Develop a plan for writing. 4.7c Organize writing to convey a central idea. 4.8e Use commas in series, dates and addresses. 4.8g Use the articles a, an, and the correctly. |
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Math skills:
4.19 Predict the likelihood of outcomes of a simple event (certain, likely, unlikely, impossible). Determine the probability of a given simple event. 4.20 Collect, organize, and display data in line and bar graphs with scale increments of one or greater than one. 4.21 Recognize, create, and extend numerical and geometric patterns using number lines, concrete materials, symbols, tables and words. 4.22 Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality: 3 + 5 = 5 + 3 and 15 + (35 + 16) = (15 + 35) + 16 |
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Social Studies :
USI1.2 Geography/Native American Colonization Skills: VS.1 The student will develop skills for historical and geographical analysis including the ability to: 1. identify/interpret artifacts and primary and secondary source documents to understand events in history; 2. determine cause and effect relationships; 3. compare and contrast historical events; 4. draw conclusions and make generalizations; 5. make connections between past and present; 6. sequence events in Virginia history; 7. interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives; 8. evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing; 9. analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events. Virginia: The Land and Its First Inhabitants VS.2 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the geography and early inhabitants of Virginia by: 1. locating Virginia and its bordering states on maps of the United States; 2. locating and describing Virginia’s Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau; 3. locating and identifying water features important to the early history of Virginia (Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, York River, Potomac River, and Rappahannock River); 4, locating three American Indian (First American) language groups (the Algonquian, the Siouan, and the Iroquoian) on a map of Virginia; 5. describing how American Indians (First Americans) adapted to the climate and their environment to secure food, clothing, and shelter. Colonization and Conflict: 1607 through the American Revolution VS.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America by ; 1.explaining the reasons for English colonization; 2. describing how geography influenced the decision to settle at Jamestown; 3. identifying the importance of the charters of the Virginia Company of Londonin establishing the Jamestown settlement; 4. identifying the importance of the Virginia Assembly(1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America; 5. identifying the importance of the arrival of Africans and women to the Jamestown settlement; 6. describing the hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to ensure survival; 7. describing the interactions between the English settlers and the Powhatan people, including the contributions of the Powhatans to the survival of the settlers. |
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Science: Virginia Natural Resources |
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