2013-2014
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence
Deer Valley Unified School District
2013-2014
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Date
Stories
Comprehension
Skill
Comprehension
Strategy
Vocabulary
Word Study
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Trait of the
Week
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
Because of WinnDixie
A Film With a
Message of Hope
In Harmony
Sequence
Summarize
Suffixes/
Word
Structure
Short Vowels
VCCV
Dramatic
Retelling
Declarative and
Interrogative
Sentences
Word Choice
Unit 1
Story 2
Lewis and Clark
and Me
Ellen Ochoa
Author’s Purpose
Questioning
Endings/
Word
Structure
Long a and i
Introduction
Imperative and
Exclamatory
Sentences
Organization
Literary
Elements
(Character,
Setting, Plot)
Background
Knowledge
MultipleMeaning
Words/Dictio
naryGlossary
Long e and o
Advertisement
Complete
Subjects
and Predicates
Voice
Author’s Purpose
Story
Structure
Synonyms
and
Antonyms/
Context Clues
Long e
Oral Report
Compound
Sentences
Conventions
Main Idea/
Supporting
Details
Text
Structure
Suffixes/
Word
Structure
Long u
Media
Literacy:
Travel Show
Clauses and
Complex
Sentences
Voice
Alanos Espanol
Unit 1
Story 3
Unit 1
Story 4
On the Banks of
Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls
Wilder
Space Camp
Explorers
The Horned Toad
Prince
Fox and the Tiger
**See Curriculum Document
Start
8/19
Unit 1
Story
1
Write From The Beginning
Personal Narratives
Other Suggested Assessments: Pearson Benchmark Assessment, DRA, BRI
Unit 1: What can we discover from new places and people?
The Meeting
Unit 1
Story 5
Letters Home from
Yosemite
Bison of Caprock
Canyons
Down the Wrong
Path
End
9/27
Unit 1
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
1
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Vocabulary
Word Study
Cause/Effect
Background
Knowledge
Unit 2: What is the value of teamwork?
Prefixes &
Adding
Media
Common and
Suffixes/
-s, -es
Literacy:
Proper
Word
Sportscast
Nouns
Structure
Draw
Conclusions
Story
Structure
Stickfast Hoop
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Trait of the
Week
Word
Choice
Winning Gold
Unit 2
Story 2
Coyote School
News
How to Start a
School News
The Metro City
News
Unfamiliar
Words/
DictionaryGlossary
Irregular
Plurals
Media
Literacy:
Newscast
Regular Plural
Nouns
Focus
Ideas
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
**See Curriculum Document
Comprehension
Strategy
**See Curriculum Document
What Jo Did
Comprehension
Skill
Write From The Beginning
Expository Writing
Unit 2
Story 1
Begin
9/30
Stories
Write From The Beginning
Expository Writing
Date
End of First Quarter10/11/13
Unit 2
Story 3
Scene Two
Front Porch
Draw
Conclusions
Story
Structure
Unfamiliar
Words/
DictionaryGlossary
Irregular
Plurals
Media
Literacy:
Newscast
Regular Plural
Nouns
Focus
Ideas
Draw
Conclusions
Questioning
Prefixes/
Word
Structure
Words with
ar, or
Readers’
Theater
Irregular Plural
Nouns
Word Choice
Fact and
Opinion
Monitor &
Clarify
Unfamiliar
Words/
DictionaryGlossary
Consonant
Patterns
ng,
nk, ph, wh
Interview
Singular
Possessive
Nouns
Organization
Playing Sports
Unit 2
Story 4
Unit 2
Story 5
Horse Heroes
Riding the Pony
Express
Raising Puppies
So You Want to Be
President
Our National Parks
The First Lady’s Job
Unit 2
11/15
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
2
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Comprehension
Strategy
Unit 3
Story 1
Begin
11/18
The Man Who
Named the Clouds
Graphic Sources
Important Ideas
Fact/Opinion
Text Structure
Generalize
Visualize
Cause and
Effect
Generalize
Unit 3
Story 2
My Weather
Journal
What’s the
Weather Like
Adelina’s Whales
Sea Animals
Unit 3
Story 4
Unit 4
Story 5
How Night Came
from the Sea
The Ant and the
Bear
Story of the
Seasons
Eye of the Storm
Severe Weather
Safety
Tornado Sirens
Paul Bunyan
A Very Grand
Canyon
Crater Lake
Unit 3
Review
1/17
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Unit 3: What are some patterns in nature?
MultipleAdding -ed, Persuasive
Action and
Meaning
-ing
Speech
Linking
Words/
Verbs
Context
Clues
Trait of the
Week
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
Organization
MultipleMeaning
Words/
Context
Clues
Unfamiliar
Words/
DictionaryGlossary
Homophon
es
Interview
Main and
Helping Verbs
Voice
Vowel
Sound
in shout
Readers’
Theater
Subject-Verb
Agreement
Sentences
Predict and
Set Purpose
Root
Words/
Word
Structure
Compound
Words
Media Literacy:
Weather
Broadcast
Present, Past,
and
Future Tense
Organization
Inferring
Suffixes/
Word
Structure
Possessives
How-To
Demonstration
Irregular Verbs
Sentences
The Amazing
Migration
Unit 3
Story 3
Vocabulary
Word Study
**See Curriculum Document
Comprehension
Skill
Write From The Beginning
Compare and Contrast Essay
Stories
Write From The Beginning
Compare and Contrast Essay
Date
End of Second Quarter 12/20/13
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
3
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Comprehension
Skill
Comprehension
Strategy
Unit 4
Story 1
Begin
1/20
The Case of the
Gasping Garbage
Call it Mr. Talberg’s
Compare/
Contrast
Visualize
Unit 4
Story 2
Encantado
Compare/
Contrast
Summarize
MultipleMeaning
Words/Cont
ext
Clues
Final Syllable
Patterns
Sequence
Important
Ideas
Unfamiliar
Words/Dicti
onaryGlossary
Graphic
Sources
Predict and
Set Purpose
Literary
Elements
(Character,
Plot)
Monitor
and Clarify
Unit 4
Story 3
Unit 4
Story 4
Unit 4
Story 5
Don’t Believe
Mysterious
Animals
Becoming and
Animal Expert
Navajo Code
Talkers
Your Own Secret
Language
Recognizing the
Navajo Code
Talkers
Seeker if
Knowledge
Making Mummies
Learning a New
Language
Encyclopedia
Brown
Young Detectives
Vocabulary
Word Study
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Trait of the
Week
Singular and
Plural
Pronouns
Word
Choice
Media
Literacy: TV
Commercial
Kinds of
Pronouns
Word
Choice
Consonant
Digraph /sh/
Interview
Pronouns and
Antecedents
Organization
Greek &
Latin Roots/
Word
Structure
Consonants
/j/, /ks/, /kw/
Retelling
Possessive
Pronouns
Focus/Ideas
Synonyms &
Antonyms/
Context
Clues
Prefixes un-,
dis-, in-
Media
Literacy:
Newscast
Contractions
and
Negatives
Word
Choice
Unit 4: What makes an adventure?
Synonyms & Contractions
Advertiseme
Antonyms/
nt
Context
Clues
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
**See Curriculum Document
Stories
Write From The Beginning
Story Writing
Date
Top Secret
Unit 4
Review
2/28
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
4
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Date
Stories
Comprehension
Skill
Comprehension
Strategy
Vocabulary
Word Study
Unit 5
Story 1
3/3
Smokejumpers
Author’s
Purpose
Important
Ideas
Unit 5: What makes an adventure?
Homographs Multisyllabic Dramatization
DictionaryWords
Glossary
Camp With Care
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Trait of the
Week
Adjectives and
Articles
Sentences
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
Unit 5
Story 3
Lost City
Riding the Rails
An Amazing
Discovery
Cliff Hanger
Rock Climbing
Grandma’s Hero
Unit 5
Story 4
Unit 5
Story 5
Antarctic Journal
Swimming
Towards Ice
A Man of
Persistence
Moonwalk
A Walk on the
Moon
Lunar Vehicles
Unit 5
Review
5/2
Compare/
Contrast
Visualize
Literary
Elements
(Character,
Plot, Theme)
Story Structure
Unfamiliar
Words/
Context
Clues
Greek Word
Parts
Main Idea/
Supporting
Details
Text Structure
Greek &
Latin
Prefixes
Word
Structure
Draw
Conclusions
Monitor &
Clarify
Synonyms
Context
Clues
Adverbs
Sentences
How-To
Demonstration
Comparative
and
Superlative
Adjectives
and Adverbs
Word
Choice
Latin Roots
Panel
Discussion
Time-Order
Words
Focus/Ideas
Related
Words
Media
Literacy: Talk
Show
Prepositions
Prepositional
Phrases
Sentences
**See Curriculum Document
Unit 5
Story 2
End of Third Quarter 3/7/13
Greek &
Words with
Media
Latin Roots
Double
Literacy:
Consonants
Radio
Word
Announcement
Structure
Write From The Beginning
Argumentative Writing
Are You Prepared
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
5
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Date
Stories
Comprehension
Skill
Unit 6
Story 1
Begin
5/5
My Brother Martin
Cause/Effect
Hopes and Dreams
Comprehension
Strategy
Vocabulary
Word Study
Spelling
Speaking &
Listening
Grammar
Conventions
Unit 6: What does it take to achieve our goals and dreams?
Questioning
Root
Schwa
Panel
Conjunctions
Words/
Discussion
Word
Structure
Trait of the
Week
Writing
Focus
Interdisciplinary
Connection
Focus/Ideas
Jim Thorpe’s Bright
Path
Fact/Opinion
Summarize
Inferring
Special Olympics
Living With Asthma
MultipleMeaning
Words/Dicti
onaryGlossary
Unfamiliar
Words/
Context
Clues
Prefixes
mis-, non-,
pre-, re-
Media
Literacy:
How-To
Demonstratio
n
Debate
Capitalization
and
Abbreviations
Sentences
Commas
Word
Choice
Unit 6
Story 3
How Tia Lola Came to
Stay
The Difficult Art of
Hitting
The Big Change
Sequencing
Unit 6
Story 4
A Gift From the
Heart
Generalize
Predict and
Set Purpose
Unfamiliar
Words/
Context
Clues
Suffixes
-ful, -ly, ion
Readers’
Theater
Quotations and
Quotation
Marks
Word
Choice
Graphic
Sources
Background
Knowledge
MultipleMeaning
Words/Cont
ext Clues
Silent
Consonants
Informational
Speech
Titles
Conventions
Vote for Blue Bonnet
Day
Suffixes
-less,
ment,
-ness
-
**See Curriculum Document
Unit 6
Story 2
Write From The Beginning
Research Report
Four Score and Seven
Years
To Save or to Spend
Unit 6
Story 5
The Man Who Went
to the Far Side of the
Moon
A 195 Days in Space
Finding a Role Model
End
5/16
Other Suggested Assessments: DRA, BRI, Phonics Screener, Pearson Benchmark Assessment
Optional Unit Review/Assessment
Fourth Grade
6
Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence 2013-2014
Units covered during 1st Quarter
Units covered during 2nd Quarter
Units covered during 3rd Quarter
Units covered during 4th Quarter
**Each week of instruction using Reading Street not exceed a maximum of eight days.
*Unit 6 is shortened. This time allows teachers the flexibility to select the stories and skills based on classroom/students’ needs.
Thank you for teacher that worked on creating the scope and sequence and curriculum documents.
Teacher
Maryellen Barber
Allison Chavez
Karen Ciba
Mary Jo Colann
Tracy Conn
Tina Craig
Deb Crim
Holly Flory
Kelly Gedney
Shelby Gibson
Lana Haddy
Lisa Hainline
Jennifer Hatfield
Lori Johnson
School
Diamond Canyon
Paseo Hills
Terramar
Copper Creek
Mirage
Constitution
Gavilan Peak
Academic Facilitator
Terramar
Park Meadows
Academic Facilitator
Park Meadows
Constitution
Constitution
Grade
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5th Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
1st Grade
3rd Grade
5th Grade
4th Grade
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5th Grade
2nd Grade
Kindergarten
1st Grade
nd
Teacher
Anna Kramer
Lynn Hoernig
Jeff Lyon
Gayle Melvin
Shelly Miller
Dena Mills
Deanna Rainer
Mishelle Scragg
Veronica Teran
Roxanne Thompson
Jodi Todd
Ashley Vickers
Mindi Wagner
Christy Woehler
Jennifer Oesterle
School
Diamond Canyon
Sunset Ridge
Sierra Verde
Diamond Canyon
Stetson Hills
Park Meadows
Copper Creek
Academic Facilitator
Mt. Shadows
Highland Lakes
Mt. Shadows
Highland Lakes
Diamond Canyon
Diamond Canyon
District Office
Grade
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4th Grade
4th Grade
Kindergarten
2nd Grade
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Kindergarten
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