Buffalo Trail Elementary School 4th Grade 3rd Nine Weeks
Reading
Language Arts
4.3 Fiction/Nonfiction
●Context Clues
●Multiple Meaning Words
●Word Origins
●Word Reference
Materials
●Develop Vocabulary
from a variety of texts
●Use Vocabulary in
Content Areas
4.1 Oral Communication
●Giving directions
●Contribute to discussions
●Seek ideas/opinions
●Use grammatically correct
language and specific
vocab. to communicate
4.4 Fiction
Comprehension
●Author’s Purpose
●Main Idea/Summarizing
●Problem/Solution
●Text Relationships
●Sensory Words
●Draw Conclusions/Infer
●Predictions
●Cause/Effect
4.5 Nonfiction
Comprehension
●Text Structure
●Formulate Questions
●Explain Author’s Purpose
●Main Idea/Summarizing
●Make simple inferences
●Draw Conclusions/Infer
●Build Background
Knowledge
●Identify new information
gained from reading
●Cause/Effect
●Fact/Opinion
4.2 Oral Presentations
●Use subject-related info
and vocabulary.
●Listen to and record info
●Organize information for
clarity
4.7 Effective Writing
●Focus on a topic.
●Develop a plan for writing.
●Organize writing to convey
a central idea.
●Write several related
paragraphs
●Use available technology
4.8 Editing Writing
●Correct grammar, spelling,
capitalization, punctuation
●Subject-verb agreement
●Noun-pronoun agreement
●Use commas in series,
dates, and addresses
●Use adjectives/adverbs
●Use articles a, an, and the
●Common homophones
Math
History
Science
4.2 and 4.3 Fractions
●Pictorial
Representations
●Equivalent Fractions
●Greatest Common
Factor
●Simplest Form
●Compare Fractions
●Order Fractions
●Mixed/Improper
Fractions
●Least Common
Multiple
●Add/Subtract
Fractions
Like Denominators
Unlike Denominators
VS.7a Civil War Issues
●Northern and Southern
States
●Events Leading to War
●Creation of West Virginia
4.1 Scientific Method
●Observations,
conclusions, inferences
and predictions
●Experimental design –
hypothesis and variables
●Classify and analyze
objects, measurements,
data
●Measurements of
distance, volume, mass
and temp.
●Display data, interpret
and make predictions
from graphs, charts, tables
●Identify contradictory
experimental results
4.4 Decimals
●Decimal Place Value
●Convert Fractions to
Decimals and Vice
Versa
●Compare Decimals
●Order Decimals
●Round Decimals
●Add/Subtract
Decimals
VS.9 Twentieth and Twentyfirst Century Virginia
●Economic and social
transition
VS.7b Civil War Conflict
●Major Battles
●Important People
VS.8 Reconstruction
●Effects on lives of
Virginians
●Effects of certain groups
of people
● Influences of economic
development
●Identifying impact of
Virginians
●Identifying important
political and social
events
●Identify important
people and their
contributions
VS.10a Virginia
Government
●Executive Branch
●Legislative Branch
●Judicial Branch
4.3 Electricity and
Magnetism
●Conductors/Insulators
●Basic Circuits
●Static Electricity
●Simple Electromagnets
●Magnetism
●Historical Contributions
4.5 Ecosystems
●Behavioral and Structural
Adaptations
●Organization of
Communities
●Flow of Energy through
Food Webs
●Life Cycles
●Influence of Human
Activity on Ecosystems