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Welcome to Curriculum Night!. Thank you for coming!. 4 th Grade Curriculum standards. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/. Literacy – Major Concepts. Four Main Categories: Literature Skills focused on character driven fiction stories Informational Text
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Welcome to Curriculum Night! Thank you for coming!
4th Grade Curriculum standards • http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/
Literacy – Major Concepts Four Main Categories: Literature • Skills focused on character driven fiction stories Informational Text • Skills focused on the understanding of non-fiction texts Writing • Skills focused on the writing of personal narratives, opinion pieces, and research writing Language • Skills focused on grammar and conventions
Balanced Literacy • Reading • Mini-lesson to teach skills • Independent/Guided Reading • Skill based practice • Novel Studies/Book Clubs • Interactive Read-Aloud • Model reading strategies and responses • Word Work • Word Study - Prefixes/Suffixes • Making Meaning – Vocabulary • Using Context Clues strategies • Writing—Empowering Writers • Planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Math- Major Concepts • Number and Operations Fractions - 4.NF • Parts of a fraction • Comparing fractions / Finding equivalent fractions • Adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions • Measurement and Data – 4.MD • Area and perimeter • Metric measurements • Measuring angles • Geometry – 4.G • Characteristics of 2-D shapes • Operations and Algebraic Thinking - 4.OA • Multi-step word problems • Understanding factors and multiples • Number and Operations in Base Ten - 4.NBT • Understanding place value • Understanding properties of the operations
NC.4.OA.4 Finding factors of a number is now limited to 50 instead of 100. • NC.4.NBT.4 and NC.4.NBT.7 the range of numbers for place value and the operations of addition and subtraction are limited to 100,000. • NC.4.MD.1 Customary measurement was removed from 4th grade. Metric measurement is now the focus in 4th grade to align and support place value understanding with decimals. • NC.4.MD.3 Finding areas of rectilinear figures with known side lengths, was moved from 3rd grade to 4th grade. • NC.4.MD.4 Fractional values on a line plot has been removed from this standard, and the focus is working with categorical and numerical data
Social Studies • History of North Carolina (Culture, Symbols & Events) • Geography and Environmental Literacy • Economics and Financial Literacy (Supply, Demand & Scarcity) • Civics and Government (Local & State)
Science • Scientific Method • Force and Motion (Electricity) • Matter: Properties and Change (Rocks & Minerals) • Energy: Conservation and Transfer (Light, Heat, Sound, Electrical, Magnetic) • Earth in the Universe (Moon Phases) • Earth History (Fossils) • Molecular Biology (Food & Nutrition)