By the end of 4th Grade, a student will:
Spelling/Language Arts
- Write dictated sentences and paragraphs, using accurate spelling and punctuation
- Write summaries of stories
- Take simple notes in their own words, listing main ideas and significant details
- Write and orally present book reports referring to the main characters and the sequence of events, using visual aids
- Identify subject verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions in sentences
- Distinguish concrete and abstract nouns
- Proofread their writing
- Improve study skills
Mathematics
- Identify, read, and write the numeral of any whole number through hundred millions and tell the place value of each digit
- Find the product or quotient for any basic multiplication or division fact by instant recall
- Give the multiplication-division fact family for any basic fact of multiplication or division
- Relate an improper fraction to its equivalent mixed numeral, and conversely
- Order any set of two or more fractions or mixed numerals from least to greatest
- Find the sum or difference of any two decimals to hundredths
- Find the probability of an event in a simple experiment
Reading
- Identify literature as being folk and fairy tales, historical fiction, or as nonfiction then distinguish between realistic fiction and fantasy
- Discriminate between figurative and idiomatic language
- Discriminate between stressed and unstressed syllables in oral and written words
- Identify the use and purpose of symbolism in a selection
- Recognize bias in a selection
- Develop essential decoding skills
- Develop fluency in oral reading
- Identify supportive details
Science
- Tell how moving water, wind, and ice shape the land
- Identify natural resources
- Identify what happens as a physical or chemical change takes place
- Understand basic needs of animals and their adaptations
- Explain the classification system of animals
- Identify different forms of electrical energy
- Classify objects as conductors or insulators of electricity
- Relate the functions of respiratory, circulatory, immune, and excretory systems
Social Studies
- Describe the role Christian beliefs played in motivating migration
- Recognize the characteristics that allow us to group states into geographic regions
- Contrast geographical features and climates of the Southwest, Southeast, Northeast, Middle West, Mountain States, and West regions
- Describe regional and ethnic differences in lifestyles, foods, music, religion, and forms of entertainment
- Identify the capitol of each state in the United States
- Use latitude and longitude lines to find a location on a map
- Identify and explain the functions of the three branches in state and federal government
- Identify Missouri state symbols
- Recognize the contributions certain people from Missouri gave to our nation through politics, inventions, and personal accomplishments