4th+Grade+Reading


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Content Standards** 1.) Demonstrate word recognition skills, including structural analysis. 2.) Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge, including recognition of a variety of synonyms and antonyms. 3.) Use a wide range of strategies, including distinguishing fiction from nonfiction and making inferences, to comprehend fourth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres. 4.) Identify literary elements and devices, including characters, important details, and similes, in recreational reading materials and details in informational reading materials. 5.) Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials. 6.) Compare the genre characteristics of tall tales, fantasy, myths, and legends, including multicultural literature. 7.) Compare story elements and the experiences and feelings of literary characters to students' lives. 8.) Compose descriptive texts using an introductory paragraph, sensory details, vivid language, and a conclusion. 9.) Respond in writing to open-ended questions. 10.) Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of business and friendly letter parts and envelope addresses and use of punctuation, including apostrophe with contractions; underlining or italicizing of book titles; and commas to separate items in a series and in a physical address. 1.) Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement with simple subjects and correct usage of regular and irregular verb forms. 12.) Organize information on a specific topic obtained from grade-appropriate reference materials. 13.) Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with descriptive presentations.

14.) Identify strategies of a skillful listener, including attending to the listening task and assigning meaning to the message.