fourth grade

 By the end of 4th grade, kids should be able to:

• Know the basic parts of speech.

• Write a structured paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details and a closing sentence.

• Use punctuation such as commas, apostrophes and quotation marks appropriately.

• Understand synonyms, antonyms and homophones.

• Identify prefixes and suffixes.

• Use research to write an informational report.

• Write description and persuasive texts.

• Use more advanced reading comprehension strategies to understand text, including making inferences, determining the main idea and identifying key details.

• Synthesize information from two texts.

• Support analytical thinking with specific examples from the text.

• Summarize information.

• Interpret information from charts, images, videos, timelines and diagrams.

• Compare and contrast information read.

• Proficiently read at grade level four in both fiction and nonfiction texts.

• (This is DRA level 20-24 at the beginning of fourth grade and 40-50 at the end and Lexile 740-875L.)

• Learn new vocabulary words using context clues.

• Interpret information in a graph.

• Use data to make a graph.

• Compare large numbers.

• Understand negative numbers.

• Multiply three- and four-digit numbers including numbers with zero.

• Find common multiples.

• Understand prime and composite numbers.

• Divide larger numbers.

• Divide when there is a zero in the quotient.

• Estimate quotients and mentally divide.

• Understand improper fractions and mixed numbers.

• Reduce fractions.

• Add and subtract fractions.

• Read and write decimals.

• Convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.

• Round decimals.

• Be able to place decimals on a number line.

• Accurately measure length, weight, capacity and temperature in both customary and metric units.

• Add and subtract time and money.

• Understand lines and rays, angles, lines, polygons and the area of rectangle.

• Solve multi-step word problems.