LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4th Grade Content Map
Language Arts
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NM SBA
Expectations
(Summative)
May
Strand: Reading and Listening for Comprehension
Standard: Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, heard, and viewed.
Instructional Practice/Resources: Vocabulary Writing Comprehension
Integrated English Language Development Standards: Level 1 Entering Level 2 Emerging Level 3 Developing Level 4 Expanding Level 5 Bridging
Use meta-cognitive
strategies to
comprehend text and
to clarify meaning of
vocabulary (fix –up
strategies) (year
long). (Practice:
Comprehension
Strategies Into the
Book and Behind the
Lesson. Resources:
http://reading.ecb.org
/
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/, and
http://www.fcrr.org/ .
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum pp. 61,69)
ELD Bridging:
Connect information
from oral reading of
grade level material
to demonstrate
comprehension
strategies (e.g. ,
“Show me two
sentences that go
together.”)
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Comprehend
written, spoken,
and visual
information.
(Practice:
Comprehension. .
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.61.)
ELD Bridging:
Evaluate materials
needed to complete
a task based on
oral discourse.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Sequence
resources needed
using realia and
oral directions.
ELD Developing:
Match resources
needed to
complete tasks,
using realia and
oral directions.
ELD Emerging:
Select resources to
complete a task
based on realia,
oral directions and
compound
sentences.
Read text aloud
with fluency and
comprehension.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp4649,70-73)
ELD Bridging:
Apply strategies to
adjust pace and
expression while
reading orally.
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Use self-monitoring
and correcting,
ELD Developing:
Use punctuation
cues to facilitate
expression,
ELD Emerging:
Use context clues,
ELD Entering:
Sound out
unfamiliar words)
Visualize and recall
story details
including
characterization
and sequence.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum,
pp.56,64)
Consider a
situation from
different characters’
perspectives.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/)
(Practice:
Reread/consult other
sources. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies. Resource:
http://reading.ecb.org/
Analyze author’s
word choice and
context. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resources:
http://reading.ecb.org/
and
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/ (reading).
Analyze characters,
events, plots from
different texts and
cite supporting
evidence. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum,
pp.62,68)
Respond to nonfiction using
interpretive, critical
and evaluative
perspectives.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resources:
http://reading.ecb.org/
and
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/ (reading and
writing)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
ELD Bridging:
Synthesize
information of two
persons from grade
level text to form
opinions on people.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Using graphic
organizers or TPR
to Compare and
Contrast.
ELD Developing:
Use graphic
organizers or TPS
to sort relevant
information.
Introduce how to use
a variety of resources
to gather information
for reports.
Research using
multiple sources
and evaluate the
quality of
information and
ideas.
ELD Bridging:
Evaluate validity of
information in
grade level texts
based on personal
experiences.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Compare and
Contrast with those
in illustrated text.
ELD Developing:
Confirm
predictions based
on prior
knowledge from
illustrated text.
ELD Emerging:
Make predictions
from illustrated text
using prior
knowledge
ELD Entering:
Identify words or
phrases related to
self using illustrated
text or word/phrase
Listen to, read,
react to, and retell
information.
Locate and use a
variety of resources
to acquire
information across
the curriculum.
Demonstrate
critical thinking
skills to
comprehend
written, spoken,
and visual
information.
Acquire reading
strategies.
ELD Summative
Expectations to be
Assessed
Distinguish between
fact and opinion.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies. Resource:
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/ )
Non-verbal
responses
ELD Developing:
Following
directions
ELD Emerging:
Gesturing
ELD Entering: Point
to parts of parts of
book
(Year long)
ELD Bridging: Apply
analogies of events
or characters in
literature read aloud
to students’ lives.
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Sequence pictures
and pieces of
evidence
ELD Developing:
Make prediction
based on evidence
ELD Emerging:
Identify pictures and
pieces of evidence
associated with
literature.
ELD Entering: Match
pictures to oral clues.
(Year Long)
Increase vocabulary
through reading,
listening, and
interacting (year
long). (Practice:
Vocabulary
strategies:
Resources:
http://reading.ecb.org
/,
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/
http://www.fcrr.org/
and
http://www.nancyfetz
ELD Entering:
Identify materials
needed to complete
task using realia
and oral
commands.
(Year Long)
Use key words,
indices, crossreferences and
letters on volumes
to find information.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/
Adjust speed of
reading to suit
purpose and
difficulty of
material. (Practice:
Comprehension:
Echoing Across the
Curriculum, pp. 7073)
Recognize, use,
and understand
grade level
vocabulary (year
long). (Practice:
Vocabulary and
word recognition
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.fcrr.org/)
(Practice:
Vocabulary.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp5153).
Compose
summaries that are
grammatically
correct (year long).
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum pp. 90101).
Identify the
Use a variety of
resources to
acquire information
across the
curriculum.
Identify and
examine reasons
for characters’
actions and
motives. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum,
pp.64,68)
ELD Bridging:
Orally explain
differences
between selfmotives and points
of view and those
of characters in
literary works using
graphic organizes
and/or technology.
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Use graphic
organizers or
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp. 68)
Curriculum, pp 66).
Cite evidence.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/ (reading and
writing)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.
66,68).
Identify the different
characteristics of
different genres over
a period of time.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/ (reading).
ELD Emerging:
Use graphic
organizers of TPR
to sequence
sketches or
illustrations.
ELD Entering: Find
information in
illustrated text
using TPR
Demonstrate
deductive and
inductive reasoning
by drawing logical
conclusions.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (reading)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.65)
Use multiple
representations of
information (charts,
maps, photos) to
find information.
wall.
ELD Bridging:
Form or infer main
ideas from details
using grade level
materials.
ELD Bridging:
Follow multiple
linguistic complex
oral directions that
involve language of
request (e.g.
‘before you wash
your hands, please
be so kind as to
clean up the mess
under your desk’).
ELD Bridging:
Synthesize
information of two
persons from grade
level text to form
opinions on people.
ELD Bridging: Infer
information from
text.
er.com/
(Practice:
Vocabulary:
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.
44,45)
Read a variety of
texts including fiction,
nonfiction, poetry and
drama (year long).
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetz
er.com/
Use word
identification
strategies. (Practice:
Vocabulary
strategies.
Resources:
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/ and
http://www.fcrr.org/
(Practice:
Vocabulary:
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.
44,45)
Identify key words
and discover their
relationships.
(Practice: Vocabulary
strategies.
Resources:
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/ and
http://www.fcrr.org/
(Practice:
Comprehension. .
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.66,67
difference between
retelling and
summarizing.
(Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp
66,67).
technology to orally
compare self with
characters motives
or point of view
ELD Developing:
Use graphic
organizers or
technology to
orally compare
self with character
ELD Emerging:
Orally compare self
with familiar
persons (e.g.
friends, family,
movie stars).
ELD Entering:
Orally describe self
with words or
gestures.
(Year Long)
Strand: Writing and Speaking for Expression
Standard: Students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing.
Use strategies for
spelling.(Practice:
Writing. Resource:
Echoing Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
(Practice:
Vocabulary.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.44)
Use simple
sentences in writing
and speaking.
(Practice: Writing
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetz
er.com/ (writing).
Actively contribute to
a discussion (year
long).
ELD Bridging: Offer
specific information
that supports ideas
with peers.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Clarify information by
restating and
rephrasing ideas to
peers of different
ability levels.
ELD Developing:
Ask questions to
obtain information
to share with peers
to a different ability
level.
ELD Emerging:
Respond to
questions from peers
or teacher.
Introduce root
words, inflections,
affixes, and syllable
constructions.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.fcrr.org/)
(Practice:
Vocabulary.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.44)
Demonstrate
competence in how
to convey
information to a
small group.
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Apply proper
sentence structure,
paragraph format,
and grammatical
conventions in daily
writing. (Practice:
Writing strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Use planning
strategies that
generate topics and
organize ideas.
Correctly spell
roots, inflections,
affixes, and syllable
constructions (year
long). (Practice:
Vocabulary.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.44)
Use compound
sentences in writing
and speaking.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Identify adjectives,
adverbs, verbs,
irregular verbs.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
Write a descriptive
paragraph with a
topic sentence,
relevant details,
and a concluding
statement.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
(Practice: Writing.
Read aloud with
fluency and
comprehend gradelevel text. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/)
(Practice:
Comprehension:
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp. 46)
Convey information
to a large group
(year long).
Use language to
interview, solve
problems and make
decisions.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/ and
http://www2.schola
stic.com/browse/ho
me.jsp)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp. 90101)
Identify appositives,
participial phrases
and prepositional
phrases. (Practice:
Comprehension
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/)
Use underlining,
quotation marks, or
italics to identify titles
of documents.
(Practice: Writing
strategies. Resource:
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/ and
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
Capitalize names of
magazines,
newspapers, works of
art, musical
compositions,
organizations, proper
nouns, and the first
word in quotations
when appropriate.
(Practice: Writing
strategies. Resource:
http://www.internet4cl
assrooms.com/ and
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
Write an expository
composition.
(Practice: Writing
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Compose multiple
paragraphs with
topic sentences,
relevant details,
logical progression
of ideas,
coherence,
elaboration, and a
concluding
statement.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Focus revision on
sequence of events
and ideas,
transitional words,
sentence patterns.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Write an
autobiography.
(Practice: Writing
strategies. Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
Present information
and ideas clearly and
concisely. (Practice:
Writing strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Write a cause and
effect essay.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ and
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Make oral
presentations,
using technologies
when appropriate,
with an awareness
of audience and
purpose.
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Demonstrate
competence in
speaking to convey
information.
Apply grammatical
and language
conventions to
communicate.
Demonstrate
competence in the
skills and strategies
of the writing
process.
EDL Summative
Expectations to be
Assessed
ELD Bridging:
Provide examples
and reasons for
use of specified
conventions or
mechanics.
ELD Bridging:
Produce grade
level writing in a
variety of genres.
Write a persuasive
essay. Practice:
Writing strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/)
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Speak in a manner
that guides the
listener to understand
important ideas by
using proper phrasing,
pitch and modulation.
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
ELD Entering: Seek
assistance from
peers or teachers to
gather information.
(Year Long)
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Write narrative
compositions.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ (writing).
(Practice: Writing.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
ELD Bridging:
Produce grade
level final drafts
using the writing
process
independently.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Narrate a series of
illustrated events
incorporating the
writing process with
peer editing and
revision.
ELD Developing:
Describe a series
of illustrated
events using
guided writing
and teacher
feedback
ELD Emerging:
List /create
illustrated events
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.90101)
Combine short,
related sentences
with appositives,
participial phrases,
adjectives, adverbs
and prepositional
phrases. (Practice:
Writing strategies.
Resource:
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/)
Use parentheses,
commas in direct
quotations, and
apostrophes in the
possessive case of
nouns and in
contractions.
(Practice: Writing
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.internet
4classrooms.com/)
using short phrases
and/or sentences.
ELD Entering:
(a) Respond to
illustrated events
using words and
phrases, and
(b) Produce
personal words or
phrase list.
(Year Long)
Strand: Literature and Media
Standard: Students will use literature and media to develop an understanding of people, societies, and the self.
Identify beginning,
middle and end of a
story. Practice:
Reading strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfetz
er.com/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp. 66)
ELD Bridging: Apply
analogies of events
or characters in
literature read aloud
to students’ lives.
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Sequence pictures
and pieces of
evidence
ELD Developing:
Make predictions
based on evidence
ELD Emerging:
Identify pictures and
pieces of evidence
associated with
literature.
ELD Entering: Match
pictures to oral clues.
Compose fiction,
non-fiction, poetry
and drama using
self-selected and/or
assigned topics
and forms (year
long). Practice:
Writing strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
Identify and
examine
characters’ actions
and motives.
Practice: Reading
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/)
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.
65,66,68)
ELD Bridging:
Orally explain
differences
between selfmotives and points
of view and those
of characters in
literary works using
graphic organizes
and/or technology.
(Differentiated
instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Use graphic
organizers or
technology to orally
compare self with
characters motives
Identify genres.
Practice: Reading
strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ and
http://reading.ecb.o
rg/)
Describe the
contextual differences
of various forms of
literature. (Practice:
Reading strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfetze
r.com/ and
http://reading.ecb.org/
Describe reasons
an author would
choose a particular
genre. (Practice:
Reading strategies.
Resource:
http://www.nancyfet
zer.com/ )
Consider a
situation or problem
from different
characters’ point of
view.
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp. 68)
ELD Bridging:
Identify author’s
purpose associated
with fact or opinion
in fiction or nonfiction from grade
level text.
(Differentiated
Instruction)
ELD Expanding:
Differentiate
between
statements of fact
and opinion.
ELD Developing:
Sort language
associated with
fact or opinion in
illustrated text.
ELD Emerging:
Identify language
associated with fact
in illustrated
paragraphs.
Trace exploits of
character types
across literature and
media depicting
various cultures.
(Practice:
Comprehension.
Resource: Echoing
Across the
Curriculum, pp.
65,66,68)
Use language,
literature, and
media to gain and
demonstrate
awareness of
cultures around the
world.
Identify and use the
types of literature
according to their
purpose and
function.
ELD Summative
Expectations to be
Assessed
ELD Bridging:
Synthesize
information of two
persons from grade
level text to form
opinions on people.
ELD Bridging:
Evaluate validity of
information in
(Year Long)
or point of view
ELD Developing:
Use graphic
organizers or
technology to
orally compare
self with character
ELD Emerging:
Orally compare self
with familiar
persons (e.g.
friends, family,
movie stars).
ELD Entering:
Orally describe self
with words or
gestures.
(Year Long)
ELD Entering:
Match labels or
identify facts from
illustrations and
phrases.
grade level texts
based on personal
experiences.