Language Arts - Grade 4 Literacy

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Language Arts - Grade 4 Literacy

Goals and Descriptions

Genres

Genres Description

World Literature: Read/Diverse Cultures
The learner will be able to experience and develop an awareness of literature that reflects a diverse society.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.13.f	Home

Genre: Independent Reading/Explore
The learner will be able to read independently for a variety of purposes.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.11	Home

Genre: Literary/Explore
The learner will be able to experience various literary and media genres.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12	Home

Informational: Reliability/Recognize
The learner will be able to determine the reliability of sources on a given topic (e.g., editorials, newspapers, magazines, biographies).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.10.e	Home

Informational: Understand
The learner will be able to understand a variety of information texts, which include primary sources (e.g., autobiographical sketches, letters, and diaries; and internet sites).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.09.d	Home

Informational: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read to gain information.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.11.b	Home

Informational Text: Comprehension
The learner will be able to apply comprehension skills and strategies to information texts (e.g., pre-reading and active comprehension).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.10.c	Home

Author Intention
The learner will be able to identify the author's purpose in a given passage (e.g., to entertain, to inform. to explain).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.3	Home

Genre: Recognize
The learner will be able to read, view, and recognize various literary (e.g., poetry, novels, historical fiction, nonfiction) and media (e.g., photographs, the arts, films, video) genres.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4,4.1.12.a	Home

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Information Processing

Information Processing Description

Information/Ideas: Skills/Create
The learner will be able to develop appropriate information skills and study skills to facilitate learning.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.09	Home

Organizing Information: Retrieve
The learner will be able to retrieve, organize, and represent information (e.g., charts, maps, graphs, forms, tables, timelines).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.09.g	Home

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Language Arts Processes

Language Arts Processes Description

Oral/Written/Visual Text: Styles/Writing
The learner will be able to view, read, or listen to a variety of writing styles.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.2.09.d	Home

Communication Processes: Nonverbal
The learner will be able to interpret the nonverbal communication used by the speaker and/or the audience (e.g., gestures, facial expressions, posture).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.01.j	Home

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Language Expressions

Language Expressions Description

Sentence Structure: Variety/Apply
The learner will be able to construct varied sentences (i.e., syntactic variety) to add interest.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.2.03.f	Home

Noun: Use
The learner will be able to use nouns correctly (e.g., singular and plural, common and proper, singular and plural possessives).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.a	Home

Adverb: Use/Form
The learner will be able to use adverb forms correctly (e.g., proper comparison forms, negatives).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.e	Home

Pronoun: Use
The learner will be able to use pronouns in sentences correctly (e.g., subject, object, and possessive; singular and plural; agreement with antecedents).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.b	Home

Sentence Structure: Apply/Communicate
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.04	Home

Verb: Use
The learner will be able to use verbs correctly (e.g., action and linking, regular and irregular forms, correct tenses, agreement in person and number with both simple and compound subjects).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.c	Home

Fragment: Identify
The learner will be able to recognize and edit incomplete sentences and run-on sentences.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.04.c	Home

Sentence Combining: Compound/Use
The learner will be able to use compound subjects and/or predicates when combining sentences.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.04.e	Home

Sentence Combining: Simple/Compound
The learner will be able to combine simple sentences to create compound sentences.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.04.d	Home

Expression: Analyze
The learner will be able to respond and analyze the effects of the sounds of language (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, beat).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.03.c	Home

Conventions: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01	Home

Adjective: Use
The learner will be able to correctly use adjectives Ie.g., proper comparison forms, articles).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.d	Home

Usage: Errors/Identify
The learner will be able to identify usage errors (e.g., double negatives, troublesome word groups, [to, too, two, there, their, they're, sit, set, lie, lay]).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.01.f	Home

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Language Mechanics

Language Mechanics Description

Apostrophe: Possessive/Singular
The learner will be able to identify and correctly use apostrophes with possessives and contractions.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.e	Home

Comma: Use
The learner will be able to begin to use commas correctly Ie.g., series, direct address, following introductory words, dates, addresses, quotations, letters, and compound sentences).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.c	Home

Quotation Mark: Use
The learner will be able to use quotation marks correctly (e.g., in direct quotations and in titles).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.d	Home

Abbreviate: Use
The learner will be able to correctly use abbreviations.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.f	Home

Punctuation: Correct
The learner will be able to use correct punctuation.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.b	Home

Mechanics: Standard English
The learner will be able to apply Standard English language mechanics.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02	Home

Capitalization: Use Correctly
The learner will be able to use capitalization correctly (e.g., sentence beginnings, proper nouns and adjectives, titles, abbreviations, quotations, and parts of a friendly letter).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.3.02.a	Home

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Listening

Listening Description

Auditory Discrimination: Awareness/Sound
The learner will be able to develop awareness of the sounds of language through repeated exposure to a variety of auditory experiences (e.g., poetry, music lyrics, books on tape, sound effects, read alouds).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.03.a	Home

Behaviors: Variety/Attentive
The learner will be able to listen attentively to a variety of speakers by facing the speaker, asking quesions and paraphrasing what is said.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.01.a	Home

Behaviors: Listening Skills/ Expand
The learner will be able to continue to develop oral language and listening skills.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.01	Home

Rhyme: Understand
The learner will be able to understand rhyming patterns in printed materials.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.03.b	Home

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Media

Media Description

Mass Media: Presence/Develop Awareness
The learner will be able to develop an awareness of the presence of mass media (e.g., television, print materials, radio, internet, magazines) in his/her life.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.09.h	Home

Media Form: Variety/Use
The learner will be able to use media (e.g., photographs, films, videos, the arts, on-line catalogs, non-fiction books, encyclopedias, CD-ROM references, Internet) to view, read, and represent information.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.09.b	Home

Nonprint: Inferences/Make
The learner will be able to make inferences about print and nonprint materials.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.e	Home

Main Idea: Relate/Nonprint
The learner will be able to relate text to prior personal and historical experiences, current events, as well as previously read print and non-print media.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.07.f	Home

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Reading Operations

Reading Operations Description

Strategies: Comprehension/Reflect
The learner will be able to reflect on comprehension strategies used to make meaning in reading materials.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.12	Home

Strategies: Improve Fluency
The learner will be able to apply reading strategies to improve fluency.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.11.f	Home

Strategies: Reading to Learn/Curriculum
The learner will be able to develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.10	Home

Purposes: Establishing
The learner will be able to set a purpose for reading (e.g., to understand, to enjoy, to solve problems, to locate specific information/facts).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.07.a	Home

Reading Behaviors: Motivation/Create
The learner will be able to develop and sustain a motivation for reading.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.13	Home

Reading: Fluency/Various Texts/Improve
The learner will be able to read with improved fluency from various texts (e.g., poetry, drama, current events, novels).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.05.b	Home

Reading Behaviors: Literary/Relate
The learner will be able to relate literary experiences (e.g., book discussions, literacy circles, writing, oral persentations, artistic expressions).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.13.d	Home

Reading Behaviors: Independent/Daily
The learner will be able to read independently daily.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.05.f	Home

Reading: Rate
The learner will be able to read orally using appropriate pronunciation, expression, and rate.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.05.d	Home

Read Aloud: Text/Fluency/Confidence
The learner will be able to read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.05	Home

Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use metacognitive and self-monitoring reading strategies to improve comprehension (e.g., rereading, indentifying miscues, reading ahead, asking for help, and drawing on earlier reading).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a.3	Home

Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to formulate clarifying questions.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a	Home

Post-Reading: Strategies
The learner will be able to use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and to check for understanding after reading.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08	Home

Prereading: Strategies/Apply
The learner will be able to employ pre-reading strategies to faciliate comprehension.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.07	Home

Response: Creative
The learner will be able to participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion, dramatization, and oral presentations).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.01.e	Home

Response: Develop/Mental Image
The learner will be able to develop mental images while reading.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a.4	Home

Response: React
The learner will be able to expressing reactions and personal opinions to a selection.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a.5	Home

Reading Behaviors: Self-Selected/Read
The learner will be able to read self-selected literature independently on a daily basis.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.13.c	Home

Reading Behaviors: Confidence
The learner will be able to increase confidence and poise in reading aloud (e.g., paired reading, shared reading, choral reading, recorded reading, echo reading).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.05.a	Home

Reading Behaviors: Personal Enjoyment
The learner will be able to read on own for pleasure.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.11.d, 4.1.13.g	Home

Word Recognition: Phonemic Awareness
The learner will be able to broaden reading skills through phonemic awareness.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.03	Home

Cause/Effect: Identify
The learner will be able to identify cause and effect in reading materials.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.8	Home

Main Idea: Identify
The learner will be able to identify main ideas and supporting details from reading passages.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.2	Home

Draw Conclusion: Support
The learner will be able to draw conclusions that are supported by the text.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a.8	Home

Predicting: Text Feature
The learner will be able to make predictions about text using text features (e.g., title, author, illustrations, and text format).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.07.e	Home

Predict Outcome: Revise
The learner will be able to predicting outcomes based upon prior knowledge and adjusting appropriately.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.a.2	Home

Fact/Opinion
The learner will be able to distinguish between fact /opinion and reality/fantasy.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.9	Home

Directions: Multiple/Comprehend
The learner will be able to understand, follow, and give oral muti-step directions which may include illustrations.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.01.c	Home

Character: Main/Identify
The learner will be able to identify and describe the main and minor characters, considering the importance of their actions, motives, and appearances.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.d	Home

Character: Solution/Problem
The learner will be able to determine the problem of a story, discover its solution and consider alternate solutions.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.b	Home

Summary: Passage
The learner will be able to summarize selected passages.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.h	Home

Theme: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the theme of single passage.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.11	Home

Theme: Theme/Concept/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the concept of theme.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.j	Home

Figurative Language: Identify
The learner will be able to identify and interpret figurative language (e.g., idioms, similes, metaphors, personification).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.10	Home

Compare: Cultures/Differing
The learner will be able to compare and contrast different viersions/representations of the same stories/events that reflect different cultures.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.g	Home

Compare/Contrast: Events/Characters
The learner will be able to discuss similarities and differences in events and characters using evidence cited in two or three text(s).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.08.b.4	Home

Compare/Contrast: Plot/Characters
The learner will be able to compare and contrast events and characters using evidence cited from print and non-print text(s).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.f	Home

Point of View: 1st/3rd Person
The learner will be able to differentiate between first and third person point of view.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.12.i	Home

Strategies: Features/Support/Use
The learner will be able to use common text features to enhance understanding (e.g., headings, key words, graphics, captions, side bars).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.02.b	Home

Strategies: Features/Use/Find
The learner will be able to locate information using available text features (e.g., map, charts, graphics, appendices, and tables of contents).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.10.b	Home

Strategies: Word Structure
The learner will be able to expand understanding and use of root words, prefixes, and suffixes to decode words.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.04.b	Home

Strategies: Self-Correct
The learner will be able to use self-correction strategies while reading (e.g., pausing, rereading, consulting other sources, asking for help).

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.10.d	Home

Source: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read for literary experience.

Source	Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 4, 4.1.11.a	Home

Plot: Events/Related/Conclusion
The learner will be able to sequence the events of a selction from beginning to end, determing how the incidents are connected and lead to a solution/conclusion.