4th Grade

4.R.RL.01: The Highly Proficient student can quote accurately from a text and refer to key details and examples when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing complex inferences from the text.

4.R.RL.02: The Highly Proficient student can determine an implicitly stated theme, or multiple themes, of a story, drama, or poem; comprehensively summarizes the text. 

4.R.RL.03: The Highly Proficient student can describe in depth and analyze a complex character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on implicit, specific details in the text. 

4.R.RL.05: The Highly Proficient student can analyze how major differences between poems, drama, and prose affect the meaning, and refer to complex structural elements. 

4.R.RI.01: The Highly Proficient student can quote accurately from a text and refer to key details and examples when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing complex inferences from the text.

4.R.RI.02: The Highly Proficient student can determine an implicit main idea and explain how it is supported by key details, using evidence from the informational (expository) text; comprehensively summarize the text, using details.

4.R.RI.05: The Highly Proficient student can analyze expository text to determine its overall structure and its meaning, including how it contributes to the meaning of the text. 

4.R.RI.06: The Highly Proficient student can compare and contrast, then analyze, a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic, including the difference in the focus and information provided.

4.R.RI.07:  The Highly Proficient student can analyze information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively, and explain how the information contributes to the overall understanding of the text in which it appears. 

4.R.RL.04: The Highly Proficient student can analyze the meaning of unfamiliar words, figurative language, and phrases in a text, including those that allude to significant characters.

4.R.RL.06: The Highly Proficient student can compare and contrast, then analyze, the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third- person narrations.

4.R.RL.09: The Highly Proficient student can analyze themes, topics, and events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. 

4.R.RI.03: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. 

4.R.RI.04: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. 

4.R.RI.09: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. 

4.R.RL.07: Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral  presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. 

4.R.RL.10: By the end of the year, proficiently and independently read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in a text complexity range determined by qualitative and quantitative measures appropriate to grade 4. 

4.R.RF.03: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding multisyllabic words in context and out of context. a. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences to read unfamiliar multisyllabic words accurately. b. Apply knowledge of the six syllable patterns to read grade level words accurately. c. Use combined knowledge of morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read grade level words accurately.

4.R.RF.04ab: The Highly Proficient student can read text, prose, and poetry with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

4.R.RF.04c: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

4.R.RI.08: The Highly Proficient student can analyze how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

4.R.RI.10: The Highly Proficient student can read and comprehend informational (expository) texts.

4.E1U1.5: I can use models to explain seismic waves and their effect on the Earth. 

4.E1U1.6: I can plan and carry out an investigation to explore and explain the interactions between Earth’s major systems and the impact on Earth’s surface materials and processes.

4.E1U1.7: I can develop and/or revise a model using various rock types, fossil location, and landforms to show evidence that Earth’s surface has changed over time. 

4.E1U1.8: I can collect, analyze, and interpret data to explain weather and climate patterns. 

4.E1U2.10: I can define problem(s) and design solution(s) to minimize the effects of natural hazards. 

4.E1U3.9: I can construct and support an evidence-based argument about the availability of water and its impact on life. 

4.E1U1.5: I can use models to explain seismic waves and their effect on the Earth. 

4.E1U1.6: I can plan and carry out an investigation to explore and explain the interactions between Earth’s major systems and the impact on Earth’s surface materials and processes. 

4.E1U1.7: I can develop and/or revise a model using various rock types, fossil location, and landforms to show evidence that Earth’s surface has changed over time.

4.E1U1.8: I can collect, analyze, and interpret data to explain weather and climate patterns.

4.E1U2.10: I can define problem(s) and design solution(s) to minimize the effects of natural hazards. 

4.E1U3.9: I can construct and support an evidence-based argument about the availability of water and its impact on life. 

4.L4U1.11: I can analyze and interpret environmental data to demonstrate that species either adapt and survive, or go extinct over time.

4.P2U1.3: I can develop and use a model to demonstrate magnetic forces.

4.P4U1.1: I can develop and use a model to demonstrate how a system transfers energy from one object to another even when the objects are not touching.

4.P4U1.2: I can develop and use a model that explains how energy is moved from place to place through electric currents.

4.P4U3.4: I can engage in argument from evidence on the use and impact of renewable and nonrenewable resources to generate electricity. 

4.P4U1.2: I can develop and use a model that explains how energy is moved from place to place through electric currents. 

4.P4U3.4: I can engage in argument from evidence on the use and impact of renewable and nonrenewable resources to generate electricity.

4.SS.C1.01: I can analyze civic virtues and democratic principles within a variety of government structures during the 1600 and 1700’s. 

4.SS.G2.01: I can compare and contrast different ways people/groups of people have impacted and adapted to the environment of the Americas. 

4.SS.H1.01: I can compare primary and secondary sources about cultures, civilizations, and innovations in the Americas.

4.SS.H2.01: I can describe the conflict and compromise that occurred in the Americas before and after the European exploration. 

4.SS.C2.01: I can generate questions about the concepts and ideas of individual rights, roles, and responsibilities.

4.SS.E2.01: I can examine concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and risk.

4.SS.E3.01: I can compare different industries, occupations, and resources that have shaped the Americas.

4.SS.H2.02: I can analyze the different approaches used by Spanish, Portuguese, British, and French interactions with the American Indians.

4.SS.G1.01: I can analyze and construct maps and graphs to represent changes in the Americas over time. 

4.SS.G3.01: I can draw conclusions about how the location and the use of resources affected human settlement and movement.

4.SS.G4.01: I can explain positive and negative effects of increasing economic interdependence on distinct groups, countries, and new settlements. 

4.SS.H3.01:  I can examine how economic, political, and religious ideas and institutions have influenced the development of individual rights and responsibilities in the Americas.

4.L.01: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate strong command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing.

4.L.02a: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Use correct capitalization.

4.L.02d: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate strong command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing; uses commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text; uses a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence; spells low- frequency and above- grade level words correctly, consulting references as needed.

4.L.06: The Highly Proficient student can acquire and use accurately grade appropriate general academic and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation). 

4.W.02: The Highly Proficient student can write informative/explanatory texts to thoroughly examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly and completely.

4.L.02bc: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate strong command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

4.L.04ac: The Highly Proficient student can determine or clarify and apply the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases; use Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word; consults reference materials to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

4.L.04b: The Highly Proficient student can determine or clarify and apply the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases choosing strategically from a range of strategies; use sentence and paragraph level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

4.L.05: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate understanding of complex figurative language, complex word relationships, and subtle nuances in word meanings; explain the meaning of complex and implicit similes and metaphors in context; recognize and explain the meaning of idioms, adages, and proverbs; demonstrate deep understanding of words by relating them to their antonyms and synonyms.

4.W.01: The Highly Proficient student can write well-organized opinion pieces on topics or texts fully supporting a point of view with reasons and information. 

4.W.06: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type one or more pages in a single sitting. 

4.W.07: The Highly Proficient student can conduct research projects that use several high- quality sources to build knowledge by fully investigating a topic.

4.W.08: The Highly Proficient student can use relevant information from experiences or gathered from print and digital sources and summarize the information.

4.W.09: The Highly Proficient student can draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

4.W.04: The Highly Proficient student can produce clear and well- developed writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

4.W.09: The Highly Proficient student can draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

4.W.03: The Highly Proficient student can write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using highly effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

4.WF.01: The Highly Proficient student can demonstrate and apply handwriting skills. a. Read and write cursive letters, upper and lower case. b. Transcribe ideas legibly and fluently with appropriate spacing and indentation.

4.L.03: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. a. Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely. b. Choose punctuation for effect. c. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion). 

4.W.05: The Highly Proficient student can implement planning, revising, and editing for conventions, to produce clear, organized writing for an appropriate purpose and audience.

4.W.10: The Highly Proficient student can independently determine how much time is needed to write routinely over extended as well as shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.