Grade 4
READING WORKSHOP Launching the Workshop Year‐Long Teaching Goals Reading and Writing Workshop 1st Quarter
WRITING WORKSHOP WORD STUDY
Goals: Establish Routines, reading culture, stamina, Strategy: Connections, Visualization, and Fix‐Up strategies Lessons to teach: • First 20 Days of Reading Workshop • Establish routines, procedures • Set‐Up Reading Journals COMPREHENSION • Making Connections • Visualization • Fix‐Up Strategies LITERARY ELEMENTS • Overview of all elements • Genre Overview • Introduce Non‐Fiction Text Structures FLUENCY Overview of pacing, expression, and phrasing Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Review short vowel patterns • Review Common long Vowel Patterns (CVCe, and CVVC) • R‐Influenced vowel patterns ‐ ar, are, air ‐ er,ear, eer ‐ ir, ire, ier ‐ or, ore, oar ‐ ur, ure, ur‐e ‐ Schwa + r (Sorts 25 – 30) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills: • Review synonyms, antonyms, homonyms • Context clues Assessments Assessments
Assessments:
• MAP (vocabulary) • DSA (Screener or Diagnostic) • Unit 4 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) •
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MAP (Screener) 3 Minute Assessment QRI (as needed) Charleston Community School District No. 1
Revised 03/09
Grade 4
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Stamina, Independence, comprehension Strategy: Questioning, Inferring, and Determining Importance Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Questioning • Inferring • Determining Importance (summarizing) LITERARY ELEMENTS • Character Traits • Theme • Authors Purpose FLUENCY • Review and practice rate and expression Assessments • 3 Minute Assessment (progress monitoring) Charleston Community School District No. 1
2nd Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Assessments:
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Dipthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowels ‐ oi,oy ‐ oo ‐ aw, au ‐ wa, al, ou ‐ ou, ow (Sorts 31 – 35) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills: • Context Clues • Prefix, suffix, roots • Multiple Meaning words Assessments: • MAP (vocabulary) • Unit 5 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) Revised 03/09
Grade 4
READING WORKSHOP 3RD Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategy: Determining Importance, Synthesis Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Determining Importance (main idea, cause/effect) • Synthesis LITERARY ELEMENTS • Figurative Language • Mood/Tone • Comparing Story Elements • Point of View FLUENCY • Review and practice rate and expression Goals: 6‐Traits: Lessons to teach Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Beginning and Ending Complex Consonant Clusters ‐ Kn, wr, gn ‐ scr,str, spr ‐ thr, shr, squ • Hard and soft g and c • ‐ce, ‐ve, se endings • ‐dge, ‐ge endings • ‐tch, ‐ch endings (Sorts 36 – 42) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills: • Context Clues • Prefix, suffix, roots • Multiple Meaning words Assessments: Assessments:
Assessments:
• MAP (vocabulary) • Unit 8 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) •
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MAP (Screener) 3 Minute Assessment (progress monitor) Charleston Community School District No. 1
Revised 03/09
Grade 4
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategy: Continue work with all strategies Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Review of all reading strategies • Deeper meaning LITERARY ELEMENTS • Review of all elements within each genre FLUENCY Review and practice rate and expression Assessments: •
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MAP (Screener) 3 Minute Assessment 4th Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Assessments:
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Contractions • Plural endings s and es • Past tense –ed (Sorts 43 – 48) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills: • Context Clues • Prefix, suffix, roots • Multiple Meaning words Assessments:
• MAP (vocabulary) • Units 9, 10, 11 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) • DSA (post assessment) Charleston Community School District No. 1
Revised 03/09