Buffalo Trail Elementary School 4th Grade 3rd Nine Weeks
Reading
Nonfiction:
Researching
4.5 Comprehension
● Cause and effect
● Use text organizers
(type, headings,
graphics) to predict
and categorize
information
● Fact and Opinion
● Summarizing
● Visualizing
4.6 Research
● Comprehension of
informational
resources
● Evaluate and
synthesize information
Fiction: Critical
Questions
4.4 Meaningful
Connections
● Describe
relationships between
text and previously
read materials
Language Arts
4.1 Oral Communication
●Giving directions
●Contribute to
discussions
●Seek ideas/opinions
●Use grammatically
correct language and
specific vocab. to
communicate
4.2 Oral Presentations
●Use subject-related info
and vocabulary.
●Listen to and record
info
●Organize information
for clarity
4.7 Effective Writing –
Student will write
cohesively for a variety
of purposes
●Identify intended
audience.
●Use a variety of prewriting strategies.
●Use transition words for
sentence variety.
●Revise writing for clarity
of content using specific
vocabulary and
information.
4.8 Editing Writing –
Student will edit writing
for correct grammar,
spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, sentence
structure and
paragraphing
●Include prepositional
phrases
Math
4.13 Outcomes and
Data
● Between what 2
numbers does
probability values lie?
● Identify the
likelihood of an event
occurring and relate
it to its rational
representation
● Provide real life
examples of
something that has a
probability of 1, 0, 1/2
● Represent the
probability of an
event as a common
fraction
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
4.4 Decimals
●Decimal Place Value
History
VS.6a-c Political Growth
●Powerful Virginians set rules to
protect both economic and
political rights and explain the
documents they created
●Westward Expansion
VS.7a Civil War Issues
●Northern and Southern States
●Events Leading to War
●Creation of West Virginia
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
VS.9 Twentieth and Twentyfirst Century Virginia
●Economic and social
transition
●Identifying important
political and social events
●Identify important people
and their contributions
VS.10a Virginia
Government
●Executive Branch
●Legislative Branch
●Judicial Branch
Science
4.1 Scientific Method
●Observations,
conclusions, inferences
and predictions
●Experimental design –
hypothesis and
variables
●Display data, interpret
and make predictions
from graphs, charts,
tables
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
One to the World Project
– Invention Convention
● Apply scientific
concepts, skills, and
processes to everyday
experiences.
● Experience the
richness and excitement
of scientific discovery of
●Use correct spelling for
frequently used words,
including common
homophones
●Use singular possessives
4.9 Research – The
Student will
demonstrate a
comprehension of
information resources
to research a topic
● Contstruct questions
about a to
● Collect information
from multiple resources
including online, print
and media
● Use technology as a
tool to organize,
evaluate, and
communicate
information
● Give credit to
resources used in
research
● Understand the
difference between
plagiarism and using
their own words.
●Convert Fractions to
Decimals and Vice
Versa
●Compare Decimals
●Order Decimals
●Round Decimals
●Add/Subtract
Decimals
4.9 Elapsed time
● What is elapsed
time?
● How do you
determine elapsed
time?
● Determine elapsed
time given between 2
given hours and
additional minutes.
● Given a beginning
and ending time of
an event, use at least
two different
strategies to
calculate elapsed
time.
● Provided an ending
time and an elapsed
time, determine the
start time of the event.
4.5 Reasoning,
Problem Solving and
Mathematical
Communication
● Solve single-step and
multistep real world
problems
● Communicate
about mathematics
using correct
vocabulary
the natural world
through the