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READING -FCPS uses a Comprehensive Literacy Approach to Literacy Instruction
Comprehensive Literacy Instruction...
...includes developmentally appropriate, contextually explicit, and systematic instruction, and frequent practice, in reading and writing across content areas;
...includes age appropriate, explicit, systematic, and intentional instruction in phonological awareness, phonic decoding, vocabulary, language structure, reading fluency, and reading comprehension;
...includes age appropriate, explicit instruction in writing, including opportunities for children to write with clear purposes, and with specific instruction and feedback from instructional staff;
...makes available and uses diverse, high-quality print materials that reflect the reading and development levels, and interests of children;
...uses differentiated instructional approaches, including individual and small group instruction and discussion;
...provides opportunities for children to use language with peers and adults in order to develop language skills, including developing vocabulary;
...includes frequent practice of reading and writing strategies;
...uses age appropriate, valid, and reliable screening assessments, diagnostic assessments, formative assessment processes, and summative assessments to identify a child’s learning needs, to inform instruction, and to monitor the child’s progress and the effects of instruction;
...uses strategies to enhance children’s motivation to read and write and children’s engagement in self-directed learning;
...incorporates the principles of universal design for learning;
...depends on teachers’ collaboration in planning, instruction, and assessing a child’s progress and on continuous professional learning; and
...links literacy instruction to the challenging State academic standards, including the ability to navigate, understand, and write about, complex print and digital subject matter.
Reading Literature and Vocabulary Standards
Reading Informational Text and Vocabulary Standards
MATH
Unit 8 Measurement and Geometry
Content Standards Addressed:4.MD.C.5a- An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle" and can be used to measure angles.
4.MD.C.5b- An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees.
4.MD.C.6- Measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. Sketch angles of specified measure.
4.MD.C.7- Recognize angle measure as additive. When an angle is decomposed into non-overlapping parts, the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts. Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems, e.g., by using an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure.
4.G.A.1- Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
4.G.A.2- Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence of absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
4.G.A.3- Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Family Home Connection Newsletter
Here's a fantastic resource for breaking down the Common Core 4th Grade Math Standards
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Social Studies
Unit 2 - Colonization
Comprehensive Literacy Instruction...
...includes developmentally appropriate, contextually explicit, and systematic instruction, and frequent practice, in reading and writing across content areas;
...includes age appropriate, explicit, systematic, and intentional instruction in phonological awareness, phonic decoding, vocabulary, language structure, reading fluency, and reading comprehension;
...includes age appropriate, explicit instruction in writing, including opportunities for children to write with clear purposes, and with specific instruction and feedback from instructional staff;
...makes available and uses diverse, high-quality print materials that reflect the reading and development levels, and interests of children;
...uses differentiated instructional approaches, including individual and small group instruction and discussion;
...provides opportunities for children to use language with peers and adults in order to develop language skills, including developing vocabulary;
...includes frequent practice of reading and writing strategies;
...uses age appropriate, valid, and reliable screening assessments, diagnostic assessments, formative assessment processes, and summative assessments to identify a child’s learning needs, to inform instruction, and to monitor the child’s progress and the effects of instruction;
...uses strategies to enhance children’s motivation to read and write and children’s engagement in self-directed learning;
...incorporates the principles of universal design for learning;
...depends on teachers’ collaboration in planning, instruction, and assessing a child’s progress and on continuous professional learning; and
...links literacy instruction to the challenging State academic standards, including the ability to navigate, understand, and write about, complex print and digital subject matter.
Reading Literature and Vocabulary Standards
Reading Informational Text and Vocabulary Standards
MATH
Unit 8 Measurement and Geometry
Content Standards Addressed:4.MD.C.5a- An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle" and can be used to measure angles.
4.MD.C.5b- An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees.
4.MD.C.6- Measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. Sketch angles of specified measure.
4.MD.C.7- Recognize angle measure as additive. When an angle is decomposed into non-overlapping parts, the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts. Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems, e.g., by using an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure.
4.G.A.1- Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
4.G.A.2- Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence of absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
4.G.A.3- Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Family Home Connection Newsletter
Here's a fantastic resource for breaking down the Common Core 4th Grade Math Standards
WRITING
Opinion
Checklist
Rubric
Social Studies
Unit 2 - Colonization