Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 4^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 1 – 1^st Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• I know more than one meaning for some words.

Comprehension

• I can use what I know and what I read in the text to guess what will happen.
• I can tell what is happening in a story and why it is happening. I can then predict what will happen next.
• After reading a story, I can tell why characters think and act the way they do.

Writing

• I can write using quotation marks, apostrophes, and parentheses.
• I can write summaries.

Mathematics

Number Sense

• I can read and write numbers up to and in the millions.

• I can round whole numbers through the millions to the nearest ten, hundred,

thousand, ten thousand, or hundred thousand.

• I can decide when a rounded solution is needed

• I can solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems and use standard addition

and subtraction algorithms of multi-digit numbers to solve word problems.

Algebra & Functions

• I know parentheses tell me what to do first when solving math equations.

• I know and understand that equals added to equals are equal.

• I know and understand that equals multiplied by equals are equal.

Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 4^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 2 – 2^nd Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• I can use synonyms, antonyms, and word origins to help me understand the meanings of new words.
• I can use root words to help me understand the meanings of new words.
• I can follow three or more directions to complete a task.
• I can tell the meanings for the words simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. I can find examples in literature.

Listening & Speaking

• I can summarize orally a topic using important details.

Writing

• I can organize my writing to be understandable to my audience.

Mathematics

Number Sense

• I can compare and put whole numbers in order.

• I understand and correctly use standard algorithms for multiplying a

multi-digit number by a two-digit number.

• I understand and correctly use standard algorithms for dividing a

multi-digit number by a one-digit number.

• I can use relationships between algorithms to simplify computations

and to check results.

• I know numbers can be shown and factored in different ways. The number 12 is also

4 x 3, or 2 x 6, or 2 x 2 x 3.

Mathematical Reasoning

I can analyze problems by identifying relationships. I can distinguish useful from unimportant

information. I can put in order and prioritize information. I can recognize patterns.

Mathematical Reasoning

• I can analyze problems by identifying relationships. I can tell the difference between useful and unimportant information. I can prioritize information and put it in order. I can identify patterns.

Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 4^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 3 – 3^rd Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• After reading more than one selection, I can tell how they are alike and different.
• I can explain the concepts of cause and effect and between fact and opinion.

Listening & Speaking

• I can present information orally that I have learned from different sources.

Writing

• I can write a 3-5 paragraph essay with an introduction, supporting paragraphs with topic sentences, a conclusion, and use correct indentation.
• I can organize my writing in several ways: using sequence, cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, or asking and then answering a question.
• I can edit and revise my written work.
• I can write narratives, responses to literature, information reports, and summaries.
• I can write sentences using appositives, participle phrases, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
• I can spell grade level words correctly.

Mathematics

Number Sense

• I show that I know the concepts of negative numbers.

(Examples: I can count backwards. I know when I owe someone money.)

• I can find where whole numbers, positive mixed numbers and positive

decimals to two decimal places are on a number line. On a number line, I can

show how far from a given number a positive mixed number is. On a number line

I can show how far a positive decimal is from a given number.

• I can round two-place decimals (hundredths) to one decimal (tenths) to the nearest

whole number.

• I can judge whether my rounded answer is close.

Algebra & Functions

• When given the value of one of the unknown numbers, I can use an equation/formula such as y=3x + 5 to find the value of the other unknown number.

Measurement & Geometry

• I can measure the area of rectangular shapes by using the appropriate units,

such as square centimeter (m²), square kilometer (k²), square inch (in²),

square yard (yd²), or square mile (mi²).

• Using an equation such as y=3x, I can create ordered pars and draw them on a

graph to express linear relationships.

• I understand that the length of a horizontal line segment equals the difference

of the x- coordinates.

• I understand that the length of a vertical line segment equals the difference of

the y- coordinates.

• I know the definitions of a right angle, acute angle, and an obtuse angle.
• I understand that 90°, 180°, 270° and 360° are associated respectively with

, , and full turns.

• I know the definition of different triangles.

• I know the definition of different quadrilaterals.