LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Language Arts Curriculum Maps – Grade 4
Topic: Conventions
Key Learning: Using the appropriate conventions of standard English (grammar, usage, capitalization,
punctuation and spelling).
Unit Essential Question: How do I use the conventions of writing to
convey meaning? How do I check and edit my work?
Concept:
1
Concept:
2
Concept:
3
Grammar/Usage
CCSS.L.4.1.A, L.4.1.B, L.4.1.C,
L.4.1.D, L.4.1.E, L.4.1.F, 4.1.G
Capitalization/Punctuation
CCSS.L.4.2.A, L.4.2.B, L.4.2.C,
L.4.3.B
Spelling
CCSS.L.4.2.D, L. 4.4.C
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How are relative pronouns and relative
adverbs used in writing?
When do I capitalize words in my writing?
How do I apply conventional spelling for
high frequency and other studied words
when writing sentences?
(sister/sisterly; suggest/suggestion)
How do I form and when do I use
progressive verb tenses?
How do I use modal auxiliaries?
What is the proper order for adjectives?
How do I use commas and quotation
marks to mark direct speech and
quotations from a text?
Where do I place a comma in a compound
sentence? (before the coordinating
conjunction)
How do I form and when do I use
prepositional phrases?
How do I use reference materials to check
and correct spellings? (dictionary,
glossary)
How do I write new words using spelling
patterns and generalizations (e.g., word
families, position-based spellings, syllable
patterns, ending rules, meaningful word
parts)?
How do I recognize and correct
inappropriate sentence fragments and
run-on sentences?
How do I make sure I use subject verb
agreement and pronoun-antecedent
agreement?
How do I use frequently confused words
correctly? (e.g.- to, too, two; there, their,
they’re)
Vocabulary:
Relative pronoun, relative adverb,
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Vocabulary:
Titles, proper nouns, comma, quotation
Vocabulary:
Spelling patterns, dictionary, guide word,
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progressive verb tense, modal auxiliaries,
adjective patterns, prepositions,
prepositional phrases, fragments, run-on
sentences, subject-verb agreement,
pronoun-antecedent agreement
marks, coordinating conjunction,
possessive
alphabetical order, definition, glossary,
affix, suffix, prefix
] Additional Information:
*Coordinating Conjunctions (for, and, or, but, nor, yet, so) - The bowl of stew is hot and delicious.
*Modal auxiliaries – (can, may, must) – You may come in.
*Prepositional Phrases – (around, during, of, to, with…) – He came to school with a doctor’s excuse.
*Progressive verb tenses
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past progressive - I was walking
present progressive - I am walking
future progressive - I will be walking
*Proper order for adjectives – opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, material and purpose - a huge, round metal
bowl; a silly, young sleeping child
*Pronoun -Antecedent agreement - President Lincoln (antecedent) delivered his (pronoun) Gettysburg Address in
1863.
*Relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) – This is the house that Jack built.
*Relative adverbs (where, when, why) – Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam.
*Subordinating Conjunctions (after, although, as, as far as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, because, before, if,
in order that, since, so, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, and while) Maria jumped out of Gino’s car because she could not tolerate one more minute of his heavy metal music.
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LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Language Arts Curriculum Maps – Grade 4
Concept:
4
Editing
CCL.2.1.
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I check that I expanded
simple, compound and complex
sentences? (see example below)
How do I check that I rearranged
simple, compound and complex
sentences?
(see example below)
Vocabulary:
Comparative, superlative, adjective,
adverb
Additional Information
Expanding example – The boy watched the movie. The little boy watched the movie.
Rearrange a simple – The action movie was watched by the little boy.
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