Arizona’s Standards for 4th Grade
- Proficiently and independently read a wide variety of grade-level appropriate literature
- Use key details to determine a theme of a text
- Use details from texts in order to make inferences, to make comparisons, and to connect ideas
- Refer to the text when asking or answering a question
- Explore the differences between poems, plays, and stories
- Determine the meaning of key words and phrases in a text
- Compare how similar ideas and themes are presented in texts from different cultures
- Proficiently and independently read a wide variety of grade-level appropriate informational texts
- Determine how the structure and presentation helps to organize the ideas and details in the text
- Determine the central idea of a text and how key details contribute to that central idea
- Locate evidence in the text to support answers and opinions
- Make connections between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or steps in technical procedures
- Compare, contrast, and integrate information from multiple texts or sources
- Find the meaning of key vocabulary words in informational texts
- Use various text features, such as glossaries, icons and indexes, to locate key facts and information
- Apply a variety of strategies to comprehend, recount and paraphrase grade level informational text
- Apply a variety of strategies to read unknown words in and out of context
- Read text with purpose and understanding, self-monitoring understanding
- Write opinion and explanatory pieces that include evidence to support ideas, linking words, and a conclusion
- Write narratives that include a clear sequence of events, descriptive details, dialogue, and words that indicate a change in time
- Revise writing based on feedback from adults and peers
- Conduct short research projects that address different parts of a topic
- Gather information from sources to answer a question
- Produce writing that is organized for specific task, audience and purpose
- Read and write cursive and manuscript
- Collaborate in discussions through effectively speaking and listening in a variety of settings
- Prepare for a discussion by reading and studying the required materials
- Paraphrase information from a wide range of sources
- Orally report on a topic or text
- Demonstrate mastery of grade level conventions (grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling)
- Construct paragraphs that include an introduction of the topic, supporting details, and conclusion
- Use knowledge of Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots to determine the meaning of unknown words
- Determine the meaning of unknown words using root words, prefixes, suffixes, context clues, and dictionaries
- Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve
problems. - Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
- Generate and analyze patterns.
- Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole
numbers. - Use place value understanding and properties of operations
to perform multi-digit arithmetic - Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
- Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication
to multiply a whole number by a fraction. - Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare
decimal fractions - Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of
measurements from a larger unit to a small unit. - Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and
measure angles.
Fourth Grade Teachers
Ms. N. Calayag
E: ncalayag@tcusd.org
P: 928-283-
- loves to travel
- Dog Lover
- Loves to cook
Mrs. K Mortiz
E: kmortiz@tcusd.org
P: 928-283-
- Dog Lover
- Bruno Mars fanatic
- Loves sushi
Mrs. C. Phillips-Begay
E: cphillips@tcusd.org
P: 928-283-
- Loves the outdoors
- Loves Harry Potter
- Loves to watch football
Ms. E.M. Yazzie
E: emyazzie@tcusd.org
P: 928-283-
- Has one daughter
- Has no pets
- Likes flowers
Class Schedule
- 8:00 – Bellwork
- 8:15 – Reteach/Enrich Reading Intervention, Advanced Math
- 9:00 – Balanced Literacy / Math
- 10:30 – Balanced Literacy / Math (homeroom)
- 12:00 – Recess
- 12:20 – Lunch
- 12:45 – DMS
- 1″05 – Writing
- 1:30 – Specials
- 2:10 – NLI
- 2:50 Recess (indoor)
- 3:10 – Dismissal
1st Quarter Standards
ELA
- Draw inferences from a text
- Determine theme of a story, drama or poem
- Analyze characters, setting or event in a story or drama
- Analyze major differences between story, drama and poem
Math
- Determine that a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents
- Use place value to read, write and compare multi-digit numbers
- Use place value understanding to round multi-digit numbers
- Multiplication startegies
- Division strategies
- Solve and create multiplication and division word problems
Supply list
- 4 notebooks (college rule)
- #2 Pencils
- Pens (Red & Blue)
- 3 Pocket Folders (any color)
- Glue sticks
- Scissors (blunt tip)
- Crayons (24 count)
- Dry erase markers
- Ruler
- Clorox Wipes
- Hand sanitizer
- Kleenex
- Pencil Box
- Post-IT Notes
Class Dojo
Class DOJO .com is the easiest way for teachers to encourage students and share their best moments with parents. See your child’s homeroom teacher for CLASS CODE.
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