English Language Arts Gr 4 A

In Grade 4 ELA (A) Students read from a variety of texts, including excerpts from Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, legends of King Arthur and his knights, poetry, and informational texts about science and history topics. Students use a writing process to develop several writings, including a memoir, a persuasive paragraph, a short story, a variety of poems, and shorter writing projects. Morphology lessons address reading and understanding words with common prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots. Morphology instruction also addresses the meaning of various prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Grammar lessons address various speech and language-usage conventions (such as capitalization and punctuation). These specific grammar skills are then reinforced and applied in all writing exercises. Spelling lessons include weekly word lists that focus on content words and words with morphological patterns taught in each unit. The spelling exercises provide students with opportunities to practice applying knowledge of letter�sound correspondences learned in earlier grades.