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TX.110.6.English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 4, Adopted 2017
English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 4, Adopted 2017
4.10. Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student a
4.10.A. Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideAuthor's Purpose
4.10.C. Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideText Features
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideText Features
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideText Features
4.10.D. Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes.
4.11. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected t
4.11.A. Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideParts of Speech
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSpelling
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSpelling
4.12. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student is expected to:
4.12.A. Compose literary texts such as personal narratives and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
4.12.B. Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft.
4.13. Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes. The student is expected to:
4.13.B. Develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance.
4.2. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morpholo
4.2.A. Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
4.2.A.i. Decoding words with specific orthographic patterns and rules, including regular and irregular plurals.
4.2.A.ii. Decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideConsonant Blends
4.2.A.v. Decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants.
4.2.B. Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:
4.2.B.i. Spelling multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideConsonant Blends
4.2.B.vi. Spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants.
4.3. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The student is expected to:
4.3.A. Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation.
4.5. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independentl
4.6. Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:
4.6.B. Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideTopic Sentences
4.6.I. Monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
4.7. Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
4.7.A. Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSummarize
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSummarizing
4.7.F. Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
4.8. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse li
4.8.A. Infer basic themes supported by text evidence.
4.9. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporar
4.9.A. Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, myths, and tall tales.