READING

Skills are developed in the following areas:

• Building Knowledge & Language through prior knowledge, vocabulary, active listening, and viewing. 
• Vocabulary with a specific focus on academic, generative, and vocabulary strategies.  
• Reading Workshop practice with multiple genre sources, comprehension tasks at various levels of complexity, response to text, performance task, and communication.
• Foundational skills are developed with decoding, spelling, and fluency practice.
• Assess learning through formative and performance-based tasks.

Independent reading is required both at home and at school.   

WRITING 

Skills are developed in the following areas: 

• An emphasis on evidence-based writing with elaboration will be taught and practiced in class.
• Each independent task will have a focal text so that students have samples to build an understanding from as they write.    
• Students will develop writing through thinking maps and practice the process of writing through pre-writing, draft, revision, edit, and publishing.
• Students will learn to proofread and share ideas with the following writing (keep in mind NOT all work will be published):  
  • Narrative
  • Informative/Expository
  • Opinion/Argumentative
  • Informative Letter Writing 
  • Research Report
  • Poetry 

AZ Dept of Education 4th Grade Standards

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