Fourth Grade Nine Week Plans 2014-2015
Second Nine Weeks
English: Oral Language
The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings. (SOL
4.1)
h. Demonstrate the ability to work independently.
The student will make and listen to oral presentations and reports. (SOL 4.2)
b. Listen to and record information.
c. Organize information for clarity.
d. Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose.
Reading :
The student will expand vocabulary whenreading.(SOL 4.4)
b. Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.
d. Develop vocabulary by listening to and reading a variety of texts.
The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative
nonfiction texts, and poetry. (SOL 4.5)
c. Identify the main idea.
d. Summarize supporting details.
g. Identify sensory words.
The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts. (SOL 4.6)
a. Use text structures, such as type, headings, and graphics, predict and categorize
information in both print and digital texts.
d. Identify the main idea.
e. Summarize supporting details.
j. Identify new information gained from reading.
Writing:
The student will write cohesively for a variety of purposes.
a. Identify intended audience.
c. Use a variety of pre-writing strategies.
d. Organize writing to convey a central idea.
f. Write a clear topic sentence focusing on the main idea.
g. Write two or more related paragraphs on the same topic.
j. Revise writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information.
k. Include supporting details that elaborate the main idea.
4.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling,
punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
e. Use commas in series, dates, and addresses.
g. Use correct spelling for frequently used words, including common homophones.
The student will write cohesively for a variety of purposes.(SOL 4.7)
a. Identify the intended audience.
b. Focus on one aspect of a topic.
c. Use a variety of pre-writing strategies.
j. Revise writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information.
The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation,
sentence structure, and paragraphing. (SOL 4.8) a. Use subject-verb agreement.
d. Use noun-pronoun agreement.
g. Use correct spelling for frequently used
words, including common homophones.
Math:
Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers (SOL 4.4) The student will
a) estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients of whole numbers;
b) add, subtract, and multiply whole numbers;
c) divide whole numbers, finding quotients with and without remainders;
d) solve single-step and multistep addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems with
whole numbers.
Probability (SOL 4.13) The student will
a) predict the likelihood of an outcome of a simple event; and
b) represent probability as a number between 0 and 1, inclusive.
Graphing (SOL 4.14) The student will collect, organize, display, and interpret data
from a variety of graphs.
Social Studies:
Life in the Virginia Colony (cont’d) (SOLs VS 4a-e) The student will:
1. Explain how Virginia’s agricultural economy became connected to the institution of
slavery. (VS.4a)
2. Explain how people in history and people today carry out trade to acquire the things
they need or want. (VS.4d)
3. List and describe at least four basic features of everyday life in the Virginia Colony
for the different people who lived in the colony. (VS.4e)
4. Explain how cultural beliefs affected the way Indians, Europeans, and Africans
interacted in the Virginia Colony. (VS.4b)
5. Explain how the economic and political status of Indians, Europeans, and Africans
determined where they lived in the colony. (VS.4b,e)
6. List and describe at least two factors that might determine where people choose to
establish their communities or cities and towns. (VS.4c)
Birth of a New Nation (SOLs VS 5a, 6c) The student will:
1. Explain the economic and political reasons for the American rebellion against
Britain. (VS.5a)
2. Explain the role of economic need or want in: 1) Why colonies rebelled; 2) Why
people supported or opposed the Revolution; 3) Why people supported political
freedom; and 4) Why some Americans moved west—further into the continent.
(VS.6c)
Science:
Weather (SOL 4.6)
The student will investigate and understand how weather conditions and phenomena
occur and can be predicted. Key concepts include
a) weather phenomena;
b) weather measurements and meteorological tools; and
c) use of weather measurements and weather phenomena to make weather predictions.
Forces, Motion, and Energy (SOL 4.2)
The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interactions of moving
objects. Key concepts include
a) motion is described by an object’s direction and speed;
b) changes in motion are related to force and mass;
c) friction is a force that opposes motion; and
d) moving objects have kinetic energy.