LAN0400: 4th Grade Language Arts
05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 04/30/2024Course Description
This language arts course allows students to interact with and apply a variety of comprehension strategies within both fiction and nonfiction texts. Students will learn to embrace learning new vocabulary and will practice grammar skills, while engaging in the writing process in a variety of formats. Students will enjoy reading books like Henry and Beezus, Shiloh, Because of Winn-Dixie, Stone Fox, and Chocolate Fever. Students will complete a written and oral presentation on the Famous American book they choose.
Prerequisite
3rd Grade Language Arts
Schedule
Module 1: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
- Week 1: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, Chapters 1-4, Context Clues
- Week 2: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, Chapters 5-8, Antonyms and Synonyms
- Week 3: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, Chapters 9-12, Cause and Effect
- Week 4: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, Chapters 13-16, Story Elements
Module 2: Because of Winn-Dixie
- Week 10: Stone Fox, Chapters 1-3, Summarizing & Dialogue
- Week 11: Stone Fox, Chapters 4-6, Character Traits
- Week 12: Stone Fox, Chapters 7-8, Compare & Contrast
- Week 13: Stone Fox, Chapters 9-10, Theme & Conflict Resolution
Module 3: Stone Fox
- Week 14: Chocolate Fever, Chapters 1-3, Narrator of the Story
- Week 15: Chocolate Fever, Chapters 4-6, Sensory Words
- Week 16: Chocolate Fever, Chapters 7-9, Fluency
- Week 17: Chocolate Fever, Chapters 10-12, Topic, Theme, & Conflict
- Week 18: Review Week
Module 4: Chocolate Fever
- Week 19: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 1, Author’s Purpose
- Week 20: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 2, Poetry, Syllables, & Rhymes
- Week 21: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 3, Cinquain Poetry
- Week 22: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 4, Summarizing
Module 5: Henry & Beezus
- Week 23: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 5, Subject-Verb Agreement
- Week 24: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 6, Homophones
- Week 25: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 7, Haiku and Limerick Poetry
- Week 26: Henry and Beezus, Ch. 7, Narrative Poetry
- Week 27: Review Week
Module 6: Henry & Beezus Continued
- Week 28: Nonfiction Articles
- Week 29: Jackie Robinson: Sports Unite Us, Inference
- Week 30: Famous American Project
Module 7: Nonfiction Articles
- Week 31: Shiloh, Chapters 1-3, Narrator Point of View
- Week 32: Shiloh, Chapters 4-6, Fact & Opinion
- Week 33: Shiloh, Chapters 7-9, Double Negatives
- Week 34: Shiloh, Chapters 10-12, Adjectives & Adverbs
- Week 35: Shiloh, Chapters 13-15, Pronoun-Verb Contractions
- Week 36: Review Week
Module 8: Shiloh
