4th Grade 3rd Quarter Nine Week Instructional Plans
Reading
4.4 Vocabulary
Use vocabulary from other
content areas
4.5 Fiction
Explain author’s purpose
Identify cause and effect
relationships
Use reading strategies to
monitor comprehension
4.6 Nonfiction
Explain author’s purpose
Distinguish between cause
and effect
Use reading strategies to
monitor comprehension
4.9 Research
Construct Questions
Collect Information
Use Technology
Give Credit to Sources
Understand Plagiarism
4.1 Oral Communication
Demonstrate ability to work
independently
4.2 Oral Presentations
Use subject-related
vocabulary
4.3 Media Messages
Differentiate between
auditory, visual, and written
media messages
Identify characteristics of
various media messages
Language Arts
4.7 Effective Writing
Identify audience
Use pre-writing strategies
Use transition words for
sentence variety
Revise writing for clarity
Informational Writing
Write a persuasive essay
Write a Personal Essay
4.8 Editing Writing
Include prepositional
phrases
Use singular possessives
Use correct spelling for
frequently used words,
including common
homophones
4.9 Research
Research a concept in the
content areas
Math
Social Studies
Science
4.2 and 4.5 Fractions
Pictorial Representations
Equivalent Fractions
Greatest Common Factor
Simplest Form
Compare Fractions
Order Fractions
Mixed/Improper Fractions
Least Common Multiple
Add/Subtract Fractions
o Like Denominators
o Unlike Denominators
4.3 and 4.5 Decimals
Decimal Place Value
Convert Fractions to
Decimals and Vice Versa
Compare Decimals
Order Decimals
Round Decimals
Add/Subtract Decimals
4.13 Probability
Predict outcome of a
simple event
Represent chance of event
as a number between 0-1
4.9 Elapsed Time
Determine elapsed time to
the minute
VS.6a Famous
Virginians
George Washington
James Madison
VS.6b Important
Documents
Virginia Declaration of
Rights
Virginia Statute for
Religious Freedom
US Constitution
VS.10a Virginia
Government
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
VS.6c Westward
Migration
Tobacco’s Ill Effects on
Soil
Farmland West/South
Cumberland Gap
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
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
4.3 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