Grade 4 Curriculum Map for Reading and Writing Workshop with Integrated Social Studies
1st Semester for 2016-2017
1st Nine Weeks
1
2
22-26 29-2
Month
3
5-9
August
Testing
Reading
Workshop
4
5
6
12-16 19-23 26-30
2nd Nine Weeks
7
3-7
September
8
9
2
10-14 17-21 24-28 31-4
October
3
4
Launching Reading Workshop
Literary Unit: Getting Lost
with Traditional Literature Creating
in Fiction
a Community of Engaged Readers & Enchanted with
the Magic of a Spellbinding Story
Realistic and Historical Fiction
Launching Writing Workshop with Personal
Narrative: Writers at Work / Telling Their
Stories
5
7-11 14-18 28-2
November
6
7
8
9
5-9
12-16
2-6
9-13
December
January
MOY
DPM
BOY DPM
Workshop Procedures; Partner Talk; Genre; Inferring; Determining Importance;
Monitoring Comprehension; Retelling;
Character Analysis; Author’s
Character
Analysis;
Envisioning;
Message;
Text Evidence; Story
Comprehension
Determining Importance; Sequence; Story
Elements-Influence on Events;
Skills &
Elements; Summary
Character Analysis;Theme; Main
Strategies
Idea & Details; Summary
Writing
Workshop
1
WRT
BMK
Expository Unit: Building Blocks of
Nonfiction
Literary Unit: The Plot
Thickens
Thinking Across Genres
(Drama)
Determining Importance; Inferring; Genre
Characteristics; Text Features; Author's
Purpose; Media Literacy; Text Structures;
Cause and Effect; Main Idea and Details;
Summary; Thinking Across Genres
Inferring; Elements of Drama;
Character Analysis; Story
Elements; Thinking Across Genres;
Summary
Building the Case of Evidence: Expository Writing:
Introduction to the Essay with Opinion Writing
Embedded
Prompt-Based
Essay
Letter
Writing
Revising &
Editing Skills
Write Legibly in Cursive; Write Complete Sentences Using Correct Conventions;
Edit Fragments; Singular & Plural Nouns; Verb Tenses; Subject Verb Agreement;
Quotation Marks in Dialogue: Irregular Verbs & Adverbs; Write Complete
Sentences with Compound Subjects & Predicates; Revise Sentences for Repetition;
Central Idea; Details
Apostrophes in Contractions & Possesives; Capitalize Proper Nouns;
Abbreviations ; Compound, Complex, & Run-on Sentences; Articles; Adjectives:
Comparative/Superlative, & Descriptive/Purpose; Commas in a Series; Reflexive
Pronouns; Letter Writing Conventions; Closing Sentence; Topic Sentence;
Transition Words; Word Choice
Word Study
Use Patterns, Rules, & Resources to Find Correct Spellings; Spell High Frequency
Words; Short & Long Vowel Patterns; Complex Consonants; Silent Letters (kn,
wr); Singular, Plural (change y to I and f to ves)& Irregular Nouns; Homophones;
Irregular Verbs
Use Patterns, Rules, & Resources to Find Correct Spellings; Double Consonants in
the Middle; Simple & Complex Contractions; Consonant Doubling with Endings;
Drop the final "e" with Endings; Base & Root Words with Affixes; Commonly
Confused Words
Integrated
Social Studies
Citizenship
Geography
Tech.
Project
Draft 6.16.16
Native American Groups
Exploration & Colonization
Tech.
Project
Grade 4 Curriculum Map for Reading and Writing Workshop with Integrated Social Studies
2nd Semester for 2016-2017
1
2
3
16-20 23-27 30-3
Month
January
7
6-10 13-17 20-24 27-3
February
9
1
6-10 20-24 27-31
2
3-7
Literary Unit: A
Closer Look at
Biographies
3
10-14 17-21 24-28
Revising &
Editing Skills
Word Study
Integrated
Social Studies
Letter
Wtg
Literary Essay: Writing about
Reading
1-5
8
A Notice and Note Unit
9
8-12 15-19 22-26
STAAR
5/8-9
Expository Unit: Reading
Nonfiction
STAAR Ready:
Expository & Test
Taking Strategies
7
May
STAAR
WRT
3/28
Inferring; Determining Importance;
Character Analysis;
Fact & Opinion; Inferring using
Character Analysis; Theme; Text
Main Idea and Details;
Text Evidence; Content
Vocabulary; Text Structures;
Comprehension Evidence; Conflict-Resoluton; Character's Importance of Setting;
Interactions influence future events;
Sequence of Events;
Making Connections Author's
Skills &
Summary; Vocabulary; Making
Media Literacy;
Craft; Text-Features; Author's
Strategies
Connections
Summary; Making
Purpose; Persuassive Techniques
Connections
Writing
Workshop
4th Nine Weeks
4
5
6
April
RDG/
MTH
BMK
Literary Unit: Digging Deeper into
Fiction
A Notice and Note Unit
8
March
READ
BMK
Testing
Reading
Workshop
3rd Nine Weeks
4
5
6
STAAR Ready:
Review
Review Reading
Processes and
Strategies to be
successful on STAAR
Fiction Writing: Crafting
Literary Text
WRT
BMK
Literary Unit: Social
Issues Bookclubs:
Esperanza Rising
Character Analysis;
Predictions; Making
Judgements; Inferring;
Character's
Interactions; Making
Connections
Public Service
Announcements:
Messages that Make a
Difference
Poetry:
Writing with
Our Senses
Correlative Conjunctions; Prepositional Phrases; STAAR Revision & Editing; Simple,
Compound, Complex, & Run-on Sentences; Fragments; Combine & Revise Sentences;
Central Idea; Concluding Statements; Adding and Deleting Details; Word Choice;
Transitions; Topic Sentences; Reflexive Pronouns; Subject Verb Agreement; Verb
Tense; Adverbs; Adjectives
Application of Revision Skills: Structure, Central Idea, Adding & Deleting Details to
Sentences & Paragraphs, Leads & Conclusions; Citing Sources from Books,
Magazines, Encyclopedias, & the Internet; Reinforce Application of Language
Conventions; Application of Conventions and Revision Skills in Poetry Writing
Spelling Review; Use Patterns, Rules and Resources to find Correct Spelling; Hard
and Soft c; Dropping Final "e" with Endings; Inflected Endings-double the
consonant; double the consonant in the middle of the word; Homphones; Commonly
Confused Words; Base and Root Words with Affixes; Irregular Verb Tense; Irregular
Plurals
Use Patterns, Rules and Resources to find Correct Spelling; Consonant and Vowel
Alternations; Syllable Junctures-Open and Closed; r-Controlled Vowels; Review
HFW; Spell High Frequency Compound Words; Greek and Latin Affixes
Texas Revolution, Independence,
& Statehood
Civil War & Reconstruction
Tech.
Project
Draft 6.16.16
Economics
20th Century
Tech.
Project