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Enduring Understanding Helping brings out the best in us Common Core Standards (Power Standards) RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. W.4.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. L.4.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. SL.4.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace. I Can Statements Reading Literature I can explain a story by referring to details and examples in the text. I can make conclusions about an author’s meaning by thinking about the details and examples in the text (drawing conclusions). Reading Informational Text I can figure out the main idea in nonfiction by thinking about the details in the text. Writing I can gather evidence from all my reading to support my writing Language I can understand figurative language, word relationships, and small shades of differences in word meanings. I can explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors in context. I can recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. I can understand words by relating them to their antonyms and synonyms. Speaking and Listening I can report on a topic or tell a story with correct and appropriate facts and details to support my main idea. I can speak clearly and at an understandable pace. Essential Questions How is persuasion used to influence decision making about our world? How can character’s actions of helping others inspire us to do the same? Why is it important for people to help each other? |
Unit 1
Multiplication & Division Concepts 4.OA.1 (Multiplicative Comparison) 4.OA.2 (Multiply or divide for word problems with drawings and equations) 4.NBT.1 Place value as multiplicative comparison 4.NBT.2 Read, write and compare multi-digit numbers 4.OA.4 Factor pairs/prime or composite 4.NBT.5 Multiply 4-digit by 1-digit, 2-digit by 2-digit 4.NBT.6 Divide 4-digit by 1-digit, interpret remainders 4.OA.3 Multi-step word problems |
Social Sciences
Exploring Regions of the United States The Peopling of the United States A Train Tour of the Northeast |
W.4.2.B I can develop a topic using facts, definitions, details, quotations or other information and examples.
W.4.2.C I can connect related ideas using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because). W.4.3 I can write stories with good technique, detailed descriptions and a clear sequence. W.4.3.A I can provide an introduction in my stories that creates a situation, introduces a narrator & characters and organizes a plot that unfolds naturally. W.4.3.B I can use dialog and description to develop experiences and events or to show how the characters respond to different situations in the story. W.4.3.C I can use different types of transitional words and phrases to help with the sequence of my story. W.4.3.D I can use very specific words and phrases, as well as sensory details, to express experiences and events. W.4.3.E I can write a conclusion (ending) that makes sense with the experiences and events I shared in my story. |