Curriculum Night
4th Grade Chinese Team
2013-2014
Shoufen Jacobson
Yu Miao
4th Grade Chinese Literacy
Curriculum
2013-2014
Why Should Students Gain These
Skills and Knowledge?
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Develop global competence.
Provide language efficiency.
Enhance international vision.
Connect to personal potential.
Be a better citizen.
Prerequisites for the 4th Grade?
On the First Day, the 4th Graders Are Expected To
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Recognize the Chinese words from the 3rd
Grade Chinese Word Bank
Mastered Pinyin and 4 tones for all the
words from the 3rd Grade Chinese Word
Bank
Read basic sight words fluently
Read Zhong Wen Vol. 3 and 4 fluently..
Produce about 1200 Chinese words
Prerequisites for the 4th Grade?
In the First Day, the 4th Graders Are Expected To
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Be proficient in all the Pinyin forms and its
rules.
Be able to decode Chinese into the Pinyin
form.
Be able to decode the Pinyin.
Be able to use the four tones and a neutral
tone appropriately.
What Will They Learn?
The 4th Grade Will
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Align with objectives of Common Core State
Standards/Pacing guide regarding Language Arts
Produce 20 new words weekly
Produce words with correct stroke orders
Can dissect the Chinese characters into radicals
Can make phrases with the new words
Can make sentences with the new words
Can do free writing/reading journal/book report/lab
report/descriptive story/making arguments/essay
Expand their vocabularies with Glossary/Chinese
dictionary
Recognize 1000 words and produce 500 words (4 new
words / day) in the school year
How Will They Learn
The 4th Grade Will
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Learn Chinese in an authentic setting and
role playing.
Learn Chinese through picture walk.
Learn Chinese through culture immersion.
Learn Chinese through teaching content
areas in Chinese.
Learn Chinese through listening, speaking,
reading and writing.
How Will They Learn
The 4th Grade Will
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Learn Chinese through daily reading.
Learn Chinese through daily writing
practice.
Learn Chinese through writing weekly
Reading Journal.
Learn Chinese through weekly Book Report.
Learn Chinese through speech contest.
Learn Chinese through reaching Chinese
online game.
How to Instruct?
The 4th Grade Team Will
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Focus media of instruction, for example
using music, visual image, etc.
Presents both academic and social
languages
Model high order questions/answers stems.
How To Assess
The 4th Grade Team Will
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Assess the 4th graders using the
benchmarks stated previously
Assess the 4th graders with their language
proficiency outcomes: Content, functions,
fluency, and accuracy
Assess the 4th graders with their
interpersonal skills, presentation skills, and
interpretation skills.
What To Expect?
The 4th Grade Will
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Be able to answer high order questions in
Chinese.
Be able to perform descriptive writing
(Please refer to the Descriptive Writing
Rubric for details)
Be able to write an experimental report
about science lab work (Please refer to the
Writing Rubric for details).
What To Expect?
The 4th Grade Will
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Be able to write in-depth essay in their
social study settings (Writing Rubric will be
provided).
Be able to give formal speech (the Speech
Festival Evaluation Rubric will be provided).
Get Familiar with other types of writing.
4th Grade Pacing for Chinese
Quarter 1
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Lesson 1: Buy Stationary买文具
Lesson 2: At the Bookstore在书店里
Lesson 3: Go to the Restaurant上餐馆
Lesson 4: The Gas Station加油站
Lesson 5: The Wolf and the Lamb狼和小羊
Lesson 6：The Fox and the Grapes狐狸和葡萄
Lesson 7: The Stories about Idioms成语故事
Chinese character writing strokes
Grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, measuring word
Using dictionary
Retell stories
Free writing
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Grade Pacing for Chinese
Quarter 2
Lesson 8: The Harmony Garden颐和园
Lesson 9: The Chinatown唐人街
Lesson 10: The Spacecraft “Shenzhou”“神舟”飞天
Lesson 11: Two Ancient Poems 古诗二首
Lesson 12: Caochong Weighs the Elephant曹冲称象
Lesson 13: The Old Man of Princeton 普林斯顿的老人
Lesson 14: Li Shishen李时珍
Grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, measuring word
Reading techniques
Writing contest
4th Grade Pacing for Chinese
Quarter 3
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Lesson 15: In the Park在公园里
Lesson 16: In the Post Office 区邮局
Lesson 17: Go to the Hospital去医院
Lesson 18: The Ocean World海洋世界
Lesson 19: The Buried Gold埋在地里的金子
Lesson 20: The Giant’s Garden 巨人的花园
Review Lesson 1-7
Review Lesson 8-14
Review Lesson 15-19
Grammar: basic concept of nouns, verbs, adjectives
Writing
Speech
Short play
4th Grade Pacing For Chinese
Quarter 4
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Review lesson 1-20
Grammar: sentence structures
Speech
Speech Contest
4TH GRADE PACING GUIDE
FOR MATH
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Quarter 1: Factors/Multiples/Array multiplication and division (Unit 1);
Multiple Tower/Division stories (Unit 3)
Quarter 2: Landmarks and Large numbers (Unit 5); CMS Geometry unit
Quarter 3: Landmarks and Large numbers (#4 of Unit 5); Fraction
cards/Decimal square (Unit 6); CMS Measurement Unit
Quarter 4: How many packages/How many groups (Unit 8) Penny Jar and Plant
Growth patterns, Functions, and Changes (Unit 9); Post test review.
Major Work of the Grade
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Use the four operations with whole
numbers to solve problems.
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
Generate and analyze patterns.
Major Work of the Grade
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Number and Operations in Base Ten
Generalize place value understanding for
multi-digit whole numbers.
Use place value understanding and
properties of operations to perform multidigit arithmetic.
Major Work of the Grade
Number and Operations—Fractions
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Extend understanding of fraction equivalence
and ordering.
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying
and extending previous understandings of
operations on whole numbers.
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and
compare decimal fractions.
Major Work of the Grade
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Measurement and Data
Solve problems involving measurement
and conversion of measurements from a
larger unit to a smaller unit.
Represent and interpret data (Line plot).
Geometric measurement: understand
concepts of angle and measure angles.
Major Work of the Grade
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Geometry
Draw and identify lines and angles, and
classify shapes by properties of their lines
and angles.
A New Way of Thinking…
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Students are being asked to “explain their
thinking” in words and/or pictures.
We want students to be able to think about
how they arrived at an answer not just
getting the answer.
Students respond in math notebooks and
verbally with their classmates.
4TH GRADE PACING GUIDE
FOR SCIENCE
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Quarter 1: Force and Motion (5-6 weeks); Matter—Properties and Change (5-6
weeks)
Quarter 2: Energy—Conservation and Transfer (5-6 weeks); Earth in the
Universe (2-3 Weeks)
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Quarter 3: Earth History (3-4 weeks); Ecosystems (5-6 weeks)
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Quarter 4: Molecular Biology (2-3 weeks); Review (2-3 weeks)
4TH GRADE PACING GUIDE
FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
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Quarter 1: North Carolina Government and Geography (RFS: Generalizing &
Sequencing)
Quarter 2: North Carolina Economy and History (RFS: Categorizing and
Classifying & Main Idea and Details)
Quarter 3: North Carolina Statehood and People (RFS: Cause and Effect &
Compare and Contrast)
Quarter 4: Culture and Technology in North Carolina (RFS: Summarize & Draw
conclusion).
Note: RFS: Reading Focus Skill
Grading Policy
CMS Grading Policy:
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 B: 85-92
 C: 77-84
 D: 70-76
 F: Below 70
Field Trips
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In-House Social Studies field trips for three
regions in North Carolina.
Science field trip for Earth History
Chinese Cultural Instructions
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Chinese Calligraphy (Once other week)
Chinese Enrichment (Once other week)
Chinese holiday celebration
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Moon Festival
Chinese New Year (January 31, 2014)
References for Chinese Literacy
Curriculum
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Note1: Center for Advanced Language
Acquisition in University of Minnesota
Note2: Advancing Chinese Language and
Culture
Note 3: North Carolina Standard Course of
Study and North Carolina Pacing Guide
Note 4: Hanban of Beijing
THANK YOU!
Thank you for coming out tonight and
showing your support.
We are looking
forward to a great school year!