Reading

Reading Goals:

Throughout the intermediate grades, the celebration of literature is the organizing principle for the language arts program as children become further acquainted with literary quality and a variety of genres. Each month students complete a book report project from a different genre. Students continue to develop fluency and comprehension skills, and by grade four have developed independence in their reading habits. Student will be given opportunity to read out loud, with partners, chorally and silently. Daily reading logs will help students record the reading they’ve done at home. Class activities stress the ability to draw conclusions, note detail, distinguish between fact and opinion, respond to language, identify the author’s purpose, and recognize literary devices.

Resources/Texts:

Fourth Grade Celebrate Reading (Scott Foresman & Co.)
SRA Reading Laboratory
Classroom library books: fiction, science, poetry, biographies
Fourth Grade Novel Sets
The 6 Traits of Writing principles and rubrics
Daily Language Review (Evan –Moor)
Writer’s Express (Great Source)
Spelling Program based on Fountas and Pinnel Program

Students who successfully complete the Grade Four Reading program will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

• A continued interest in reading for pleasure and information
• A developed vocabulary through context and basic etymology
• An ability to use drama and role playing
• Reading comprehension (on literal, critical, and interpretive levels)
• Recognition of the author’s purpose for writing
• The skill of sequencing, skimming, classifying,
• Using a graphic organizer to re-tell a story
• Using compare and contrast
• Identify the use of imagery (simile, metaphor, personification, idioms)
• An ability to summarize
• Responding to literature in meaningful ways
• An ability to reflect, create, and critique writing
• Use context clues to build vocabulary
• Identify comprehension strategies (e.g. making predictions, re-reading, reading ahead, using context clues)