Grade-at-a-Glance for Grade 4
English Language Arts
• View a variety of visual texts
explaining the technique and the
impact on viewers.
• Listen and summarize,
paraphrase, and evaluate what
was heard and draw conclusions.
• Read and show understanding of
fiction and non-fiction from various
cultures and countries.
• Create logical and purposeful
representations such as illustrated
reports, dramatizations, posters, and
other visuals to communicate ideas.
• Speak in a variety of formal and
informal situations including giving
oral explanations, speeches, or
describing procedures.
• Use the writing process to
produce descriptive, narrative, and
expository compositions that focus
on a central idea, have a logical
order, explain point of view, and
give reasons or evidence.
• Assess viewing, listening, reading,
representing, speaking and writing
strategies used against criteria and
set goals to be more effective.
Reading Skills: Grade 4 students will learn to…
• read and understand a variety of
grade-level texts such as stories,
novels, scripts, magazines, and
procedures;
• read for information in different
subjects and compare information
from different sources;
• distinguish between cause and
effect/fact and opinion;
• recognize and explain author’s
ideas, explicit and implicit
message, and techniques;
• use a variety of comprehension
strategies (e.g., inferences, draw
conclusions, develop and support
opinions);
• use a variety of strategies
to determine the meaning of
unfamiliar words (e.g., context,
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word structure, root words,
prefixes, suffixes, synonyms,
antonyms, dictionaries);
• identify and use various text
features (e.g., chapters, stanzas
in poems) and elements of
various texts (e.g., setting, plot,
characters).
Grade-at-a-Glance for Grade 4
Writing Skills: Grade 4 students will learn to…
• create multi-paragraph compositions (3-5 paragraphs) with an
introduction, a middle with supporting details, and a conclusion
that summarizes the points for a
specific audience and purpose;
• use the writing process to revise
compositions by adding, deleting,
and rearranging texts;
• write clear, coherent sentences
and paragraphs that develop
a central idea with effective
openings and conclusions;
• use a variety of sentence types (e.g., questions, exclamations);
• write reports that focus on an
issue and include facts and
details gathered from more than
one source;
• write summaries which contain
main ideas and the most
significant details;
• use common connecting words
to link ideas in a paragraph (e.g.,
first, next, finally);
• use simple and compound
sentences;
• use quotation marks for direct
speech.
• spell most words correctly, using a
variety of strategies;
• write legibly using correct letter formation and joining in cursive writing.
Writing Sample
Mathematics
• Understand numbers to 10,000,
compare and order fractions,
understand decimals to tenths and
hundredths, and compare them to
fractions.
• Add and subtract with answers
to 10 000 and decimals to
hundredths.
• Use mental math strategies to
multiply up to 10 x 10.
• Multiply and divide a 2-digit
number by a 1-digit number.
• Identify, describe and reproduce a
pattern in a chart, table or diagram.
• Estimate and determine the area of
regular and irregular 2-D shapes.
• Solve problems involving patterns.
• Construct rectangles for a given
area.
• Write and solve one-step equations
using a symbol to represent an
unknown.
• Read and record time using digital,
analogue, and 24-hour clocks.
• Read and record calendar dates in a
variety of formats.
The following is a typical problem or investigation
that a student might encounter in Grade 4:
Sorting Numbers
Using loops of string, create a Venn diagram with
overlapping circles. Use the number cards provided
to sort the numbers into the Venn diagram. Tell the
attributes that you used to sort the numbers into each
part of the Venn diagram.
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• Identify attributes, then compare
and construct rectangular and
triangular prisms.
• Identify line of symmetry and
create symmetrical 2-D shapes.
• Use many-to-one correspondence
on bar graphs and pictographs.
Grade-at-a-Glance for Grade 4
Arts Education
Science
• Create short dance phrases about
Saskatchewan using the elements of dance.
• Investigate how living things affect
each other within habitats and
communities.
• Create art works that express ideas
about Saskatchewan and explore
different forms and media.
• Understand how plants and animals
are able to live in different habitats.
• Create vocal and instrumental
musical expressions using
elements of music (e.g., beat,
rhythm, dynamics, pitch, texture,
tone colour) with Saskatchewan as
inspiration.
• Adopt roles and collaborate with
others in role within dramatic
contexts to participate in consensus
building.
• Respond to a variety of contemporary
Saskatchewan arts expressions and
analyze how dance, drama, music,
and visual art works represent unique
ideas and perspectives.
• Determine and propose solutions
to the impact of natural and
human activity on habitats and
communities.
• Explore light and light interactions.
• Explore the impact of light-related
technologies.
• Explore sound, and observe its
characteristics.
• Explore the impact of sound-related
technologies.
• Investigate rocks and minerals.
• Understand how humans use rocks
and minerals.
• Investigate and share discoveries
about the arts in Saskatchewan
through collaborative inquiry.
• Explore weathering, erosion, and fossils.
• Analyze and respond to arts
expressions of various Saskatchewan
First Nations and Métis artists.
Physical Education
Health
• Consider nutrition and activity for preteens.
• Show how traditional and modern
medicine affect health.
• Use conflict resolution in
relationships.
• Use safety skills in all situations.
• Show how relationships affect how
we think of ourselves.
• Develop and apply ways to improve
endurance, flexibility, and strength
that improve individual fitness
levels.
• Understand how our bodies work
and how we can improve their
function.
• Use performance cues to move the
body through space or on the spot
while involved in activities.
• Show ways to move objects with
control, in complex activities.
• Refine movement skills to improve
performance.
• Use strategies to reduce stress.
• Show our role in achieving personal
health by goal setting and reflecting
on our behaviours.
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• Show skills, tactics, and strategies
related to net/wall games, low
organization games, target games,
striking/fielding games, and
alternate environment games.
• Use skills and strategies while
respecting rules necessary for safe
involvement in activities.
• Consider injury prevention and
increase first aid knowledge in
activity related injuries.
• Provide positive leadership skills in
team activities.
• Discover the history of game,
sport, and movement activities
contributed by First Nations and
Métis and other cultures.
Social Studies
• Describe the origins of the
cultural diversity in Saskatchewan
communities including how First
Nations and Métis people have
shaped, and continue to shape,
Saskatchewan.
• Relate the impact of the land on the
lifestyles, settlement patterns, and
the Treaty relationship of the people
of Saskatchewan while exploring
the relationship of First Nations and
Métis people with the land.
• Examine the provincial system of
government, First Nations system
of governance, and Métis system
of governance to understand how
these governing bodies impact
the quality of life for people in
Saskatchewan.
• Investigate the importance of
agriculture to the economy and
culture of Saskatchewan to
understand how Saskatchewan
people meet challenges presented
by the natural environment.