English Language Arts Curriculum

4th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will apply foundational skills when reading to learn and understand other subjects. Students will write narratives and support other writing with opinions and explanations with the use of text evidence.

Outcomes and Components:

LA.4.8

Students will use poetry and drama to interpret structural elements of each.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.4.8.1

Explain and apply the structural elements of poetry, specifically verse, rhythm, and meter.

4.RL.5

 

LA.4.8.2

Explain and apply the structure of a drama, specifically characters, setting, dialogue, and stage directions.

4.RL.5

 

LA.4.8.3

Summarize and determine the theme of a poem or drama.

4.RL.2

 

LA.4.8.4

Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns. 

4.L.1d

 

LA.4.8.5

Decode words using letter sounds, syllabication patterns, and morphology (roots and affixes) to read unfamiliar, multisyllabic words in and out of context.

4.RF.3a

 

LA.4.8.6

Read on level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

4.RF.4b

 

LA.4.8.7

Speak and listen for a variety of purposes.

4.SL.6

Academic Vocabulary: analyze, compare/contrast, identify, explain

Content Vocabulary: drama, prose, poetry, verse, stanza, rhythm, meter, rhyme scheme, line, syllable, stage directions, dialogue, scene, act, theme, progressive verb tenses, auxiliary verbs, relative pronouns a relative adverbs