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LANGUAGE ARTS |
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Fourth Grade |
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READING |
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The student will develop the reading and listening skills
necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation,
analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of print and nonprint
text. |
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Recognize the sounds of language (i.e., alliteration, rhyme, and
repetition). |
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Identify different forms of text (e.g., poems, drama, fiction
and nonfiction). |
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Recognize plot features of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and
myths. |
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Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words as aids in determining
meaning within context. |
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Choose a logical word to complete an analogy using synonyms and
antonyms. |
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Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple meaning
words using context clues, dictionaries, and glossaries. |
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Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms within
context. |
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Make predictions about the text. |
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Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary within text. |
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Select questions to clarify thinking. |
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Identify the author’s purpose (e.g., to entertain, inform,
persuade, and share feelings). |
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Recognize cause and effect relationships within context. |
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Evaluate texts for elements of fact/opinion and
reality/fantasy. |
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Identify the most reliable sources of information for preparing
a report. |
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Determine appropriate inferences and draw conclusions from
texts. |
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Interpret information using a chart, map, or timeline. |
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Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and
conclusions. |
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Select sources from which to gather information on a given
topic. |
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Use table of contents, title page, and glossary to locate
information. |
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Use available text features (e.g., graphics, glossaries and
illustrations) to make meaning from text. |
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Use headings, graphics, and captions to make meaning from text. |
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Determine the problem of a story and discover its solution. |
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Indicate the sequence of events in print (fiction and
nonfiction) and in nonprint texts. |
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Identify character, setting, and plot in a passage. |
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The student will develop the structural and creative skills of
the writing process necessary to produce written language that
can be read, presented to, and interpreted by various audiences. |
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Identify the audience for which a text is written. |
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Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, to inform,
and to share experiences). |
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Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., listing, clustering, story
maps, and webs) to group ideas for writing. |
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Choose a topic sentence for a paragraph. |
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Select details that support a topic sentence. |
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Choose the supporting sentence that best develops a topic
sentence. |
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Select the best title for a text. |
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Rearrange sentences to form a sequential, coherent paragraph. |
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Rearrange events in a sequential or chronological order in a
writing selection. |
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Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow. |
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Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and
flow of ideas in a paragraph. |
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Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well developed
paragraph. |
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Identify similes and metaphors. |
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Supply a missing piece of information in a simple outline. |
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Select appropriate time-order or transitional words to enhance
the flow of the writing sample. |
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Select the best way to correct incomplete sentences within
context. |
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Select the best way to combine sentences to provide syntactic
variety within context. |
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Identify the correct use of nouns (e.g., singular and plural,
common and proper, singular and plural possessives), verbs
(i.e., agreement, tenses, action and linking) and adjectives
(i.e., comparison forms and articles) within context. |
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Identify the correct usage of pronouns (i.e., subject, object,
and agreement) and adverbs (i.e., comparison forms and
negatives) within context. |
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Recognize usage errors occurring within context (e.g., double
negatives, troublesome word groups, [i.e., to, too, two, there,
their, they’re, its, it’s). |
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Identify correctly used capital letters with names, dates,
addresses, and the beginning of sentences within context. |
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Identify the correct usage of commas (e.g., series, dates,
addresses, friendly letters, introductory words, and compound
sentences) within context. |
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Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas in direct
quotations. |
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Choose the correct formation of plurals, contractions, and
possessives within context. |
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Identify grade level compound words, contractions, and common
abbreviations within context. |
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Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context. |
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Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person
and number). |
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Identify declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences
by recognizing appropriate end marks. |
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MATHEMATICS |
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Number and Operations |
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The student will identify, represent, order, and compare
numbers; and estimate, compute, and solve problems. |
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Read and write numbers from hundred-thousands to hundredths. |
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Represent whole numbers to 9999. |
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Identify the place value of a given digit from hundred-thousands
to hundredths. |
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Compare and order whole numbers to 9999 using the appropriate
symbols (>, <, and =). |
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Identify fractions as parts of whole units, as parts of sets, as
locations on number lines, and as divisions of whole numbers. |
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Generate equivalent forms of whole numbers, commonly used
fractions, and decimals. |
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Represent numbers as both improper fractions and mixed numbers. |
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Represent whole numbers up to 10,000 in expanded form (1,000’s +
100’s +10’s +1’s). |
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Use estimation to select a reasonable solution to a whole number
computation involving addition, subtraction, or multiplication. |
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Add and subtract fractions with like denominators. |
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Multiply efficiently and accurately with single-digit whole
numbers. |
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Add and subtract decimals (includes monetary units). |
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Solve one-step real-world problems involving addition or
subtraction of whole numbers and/or decimals. |
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Solve one-step real-world problems involving multiplication of
whole numbers and/or decimals. |
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Algebra |
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The student will analyze and use symbols to generalize patterns,
use properties of operations, and analyze change in various
situations. |
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Extend numerical and geometric patterns. |
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Determine the function rule for data in a function table. |
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Apply basic function rules. |
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Solve open sentences involving addition and subtraction. |
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Solve open sentences involving multiplication and division. |
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Connect open sentences to real-world situations. |
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Geometry |
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The student will analyze and describe characteristics and
properties of 2- and 3-dimensional shapes, locate and specify
points on a grid, and use geometric concepts (e.g., symmetry and
transformations) and reasoning to solve problems. |
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Identify two- or three-dimensional shapes given defining
attributes. |
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Identify points, lines, and rays. |
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Recognize congruent geometric figures. |
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Identify lines of symmetry for two-dimensional geometric
figures. |
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Locate and specify points in Quadrant 1 of a coordinate system. |
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Identify the result of a transformation (flip or slide) that has
been applied to a simple two-dimensional geometric shape. |
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Measurement |
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The student will estimate and determine time, length, perimeter,
area, weight, capacity, and temperature and solve real-world
problems involving measurement. |
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Select appropriate standard units to measure length, perimeter,
area, capacity, volume, weight, time, temperature, and angles. |
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Use estimation to determine if a length or volume measurement is
reasonable. |
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Find the perimeter of rectangles. |
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Measure length to the nearest 1/4 inch or nearest centimeter. |
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Tell time to the nearest minute. |
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Read temperature using Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometers. |
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Apply the formula for finding the area of a rectangle. |
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Solve real-world problems involving addition and subtraction of
measurements. |
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Solve real-world problems involving elapsed time to the
quarter-hour. |
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Data Analysis and Probability |
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The student will collect, organize, analyze, interpret, and
display data in tables and graphs and determine the
probabilities of outcomes in simple experiments. |
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Interpret data displayed in bar graphs and pictographs. |
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Connect data in tables to pictographs, line graphs, or bar
graphs. |
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Determine the median of a data set. |
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Determine the most likely, least likely, or equally likely
outcomes in simple experiments. |
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Select all possible outcomes of a simple experiment (i.e.,
spinner, coin toss, number or color cube). |
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SCIENCE |
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Fourth Grade |
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LIFE SCIENCE STANDARDS |
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Cell Structure and Function |
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The student will investigate the structure and function of plant
and animal cells. |
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Identify the function of specific plant and animal parts. |
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Recognize the basic structure of plant and animal cells. |
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Identify animal and plant cell structures and functions. |
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Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment |
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The student will investigate how living things interact with one
another and with nonliving elements of their environment. |
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Select plants and animals found in a specific environment. |
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Recognize how plants and animals interact with each other in
their environment. |
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Select plants and animals found in a specific environment. |
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The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate
how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals
use food to sustain life. |
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Compare how various animals obtain and use food for energy. |
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Match the edible parts of plants with particular plant
structures. |
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Match the animal with their means of obtaining oxygen. |
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Heredity and Reproduction |
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The student will understand the basic principles of inheritance. |
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Distinguish offspring from the parent. |
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Recognize the relationship between reproduction and the survival
of a species. |
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Select the illustration that depicts the life cycle of a
specific organism. |
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Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things |
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The student will understand that living things have
characteristics that enable them to survive in their
environment. |
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Match a plant or animal adaptation to a particular environmental
condition. |
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Compare and contrast groups of organisms according to their
major features. |
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Match the form of structures found in living things to their
function. |
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Biological Change |
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The student will understand that living things have changed over
time. |
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Match fossil evidence with organisms that are alive today. |
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Identify animal and plant populations as thriving, threatened,
endangered, or extinct. |
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Infer possible causes of extinction. |
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EARTH SCIENCE STANDARDS |
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Earth and Its Place in the Universe |
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The student will investigate the structure of the universe. |
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Determine the order of the planets according to their distance
from the sun. |
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Recognize that the length and position of a shadow are related
to the location of the sun. |
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Identify the phases of the moon in the correct sequence. |
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Atmospheric Cycles |
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The student will investigate the relationships among atmospheric
conditions, weather, and climate. |
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Identify the cloud type(s) associated with specific weather
conditions. |
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Choose the appropriate instrument for measuring a given
atmospheric condition. |
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Identify the basic features of the water cycle. |
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Earth Features |
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The student will understand that the earth has many geological
features that are constantly changing. |
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Recognize specific geological features. |
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Determine how wind and water change the earth’s geological
features |
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Identify the layers of the earth. |
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Earth Resources |
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The student will investigate the properties, uses, and
conservation of earth’s resources. |
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Choose the appropriate use for an earth material. |
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Identify the basic characteristics of soil. |
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Distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources. |
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE STANDARDS |
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Forces and Motion |
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The student will investigate the effects of force on the
movement of objects. |
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Recognize the effects of gravity. |
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Select factors that have the greatest effect on the motion of an
object. |
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Determine how speed affects distance traveled over time. |
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Recognize simple machines (i.e., inclined plane, lever, and
pulley) |
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Structure and Properties of Matter |
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The student will investigate the characteristic properties of
matter. |
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Select an object according to its observable physical
properties. |
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Identify states of matter. |
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Determine how various types of matter change state. |
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Interactions of Matter |
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The student will investigate the interactions of matter. |
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Choose features associated with physical changes. |
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Identify characteristics of different types of mixtures. |
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Determine methods for separating mixtures. |
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Energy |
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The student will investigate energy and its uses. |
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Identify different forms of energy. |
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Distinguish between the volume and the pitch of sound. |
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Select a simple electrical circuit. |
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Recognize that various materials conduct heat. |
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SOCIAL STUDIES |
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Fourth Grade |
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ECONOMICS |
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Globalization of the economy, the explosion of population
growth, technological changes and international competition
compels the student to understand, both personally and globally,
production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
The student will examine and analyze economic concepts such as
basic needs versus wants, using versus saving money, and
policy-making versus decision-making. |
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Analyze the impact of European exploration and colonization on
the economy of Tennessee. |
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Interpret a chart of major agricultural produce in Tennessee
(i.e., cotton, tobacco, soy beans, rice, corn, cattle, wheat,
swine, and sheep). |
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Recognize the difference between a barter system and a money
system. |
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Identify major industries of colonial America using a map of the
original thirteen colonies. |
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Recognize the concept of supply and demand. |
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Read and interpret a passage about a political or economic issue
which individuals may respond to with contrasting views (i.e.,
state taxes, federal taxes, slavery, and Bill of Rights). |
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GEOGRAPHY |
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Geography enables the student to see, understand and appreciate
the web of relationships between people, places, and
environments. The student will use the knowledge, skills, and
understanding of concepts within the six essential elements of
geography: world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical
systems, human systems, environment and society, and the use of
geography. |
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Locate the routes of early explorers of North America on a map. |
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Identify and use key geographical features on maps (i.e.,
mountains, rivers, plains, valleys, and forests). |
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Identify on a map the routes of Americas’ explorers (i.e.,
Columbus, Balboa, Pizarro, and Desoto). |
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Use latitude and longitude to identify major North American
cities on a map (i.e., Boston, Mexico City, Toronto, Charleston,
Savannah, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Sante Fe, and Los
Angeles). |
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Recognize the reasons settlements are founded on major river
systems. (i.e., transportation, manmade boundaries, and food and
water sources). |
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Determine how physical processes shape the United States'
features and patterns (i.e., erosion, volcanoes, plate
tectonics, and flooding). |
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Recognize river systems that impacted early American history
(i.e., Mississippi, Mystic, Charles, and Hudson). |
