Reflecting the expectations, activities in Language Arts (English) series cover:
| Reasoning and Critical Thinking |
- Story concepts: identifying the main element and supporting details; making predictions in narrative works; retelling a story to another for of writing and identifying elements of stories: central idea, plot, setting, characteristics and their motivations
- Comprehension: recognizing differences between opinions, facts, inferences, implications and theories; drawing conclusions and making judgments on the basis of evidence
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| Understanding Form and Style |
- Structure: recognizing the characteristics of fiction and non-fiction writing
- Recognizing different forms: drama, biography, informative article
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| Vocabulary Building |
- Using a variety of strategies to determine meaning of unfamiliar words: context of sentences, dictionary and thesaurus skills
- Adding new words: using specialized terms for drama and history
- Word structure: compound words, root words, prefixes and suffixes
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| Use of Language Conventions |
- Grammar: future verb tenses; using simple and compound sentence structures; using subordinate and co-ordinate conjunctions
- Punctuation: quotation marks, colons, semi-colons; contractions; apostrophes
- Spelling: clarifying spelling of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
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Also see: Grade 4 Math Curriculum
