Fourth Grade Curriculum Guide
FOURTH GRADE AT THE ORCHARD SCHOOL
Social-Emotional Learning
Fourth-graders at The Orchard School learn about verbal communication skills, or what you say and how you say it. They also learn nonverbal communication such as body posture, facial expression, and eye contact. They learn to cooperate by working as a team to accomplish a goal and by understanding empathy, self-regulation, impulse control, and how to make and keep relationships by knowing when and how to work and play with others.
Language Arts and Literacy
The fourth-grade literacy program is designed to develop confident, lifelong readers and writers. Independence gains momentum in fourth grade as students learn to read and write for pleasure, information, and knowledge. Practices include independent and collaborative work, reflective discussions, and presentations.
Fourth-graders will grow as readers by:
• Engaging with a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts. • Developing personal reading preferences. • Applying phonics concepts and knowledge of word structure to decode unknown words. • Advancing skills in reading comprehension and fluency. • Making inferences and predictions. • Understanding literary elements such as genres, plot, character, and setting.
Fourth-graders will grow as writers by:
• Studying and experimenting with different genres of writing including narrative, informative, and persuasive compositions. • Engaging in pre-writing planning and research. • Writing paragraphs with a central idea, topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. • Developing an understanding of the revision and copy editing process. • Applying conventions of spelling, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization. • Using technology to produce and publish writing.
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