Welcome to 4th Grade!
Welcome to our class webpage! Utilize this site to stay informed about the latest classroom updates. Here, you'll find a weekly schedule providing a general framework for instruction. Note that instruction and homework may be adjusted during the week to cater to students' needs. I'm excited to collaborate with you to ensure a fantastic school year for all!
ELA students will be reading and experiencing stories featuring characters and people gaining new perspectives. We will make connections to real life people and characters. Our first novel will be Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn.
Our essential questions are:
Literary Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining unknown words or phrases, studying characters, settings, and events, and determining and supporting a theme within a story.
Informational Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining the main idea and details of a text, determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and distinguishing between firsthand and secondhand accounts using text evidence.
In writing, we will begin with different styles of narrative writing. We will learn how to read stories closely while taking quality notes and tracking story development. We will learn how to write in different points of view and how to build upon a story with our new ideas. We will also work on sentence structure and reviewing elements of writing in our daily language review.
In word study, we will review the word inquiry process and study Greek and Latin roots.
