ELA Common Core Standards: Leaping into Language Arts Grade 4

ELA Common Core Standards: Leaping into Language Arts Grade 4

This comprehensive consumable book was designed for 4th grade students to learn on their own or to provide small group or whole class instruction. Comprehensive review exercises after each section help reinforce learning and build mastery.

Building on the previous skills taught in Leaping into Language Arts Grade 1-3, this book extends learning about sentence structures, compound sentences, and how to combine sentences to understand and excel in communication skills.

It covers more advanced areas of capitalization with fourth-grade vocabulary and words used in everyday reading and writing. Punctuation is another section covered. Simple punctuation is reviewed and more complex forms are taught.

These lessons cover:

• Apostrophes for ownership and contraction

• Quotation marks for titles of stories, songs, and poems

• Underlining titles of books, movies, TV shows, newspapers, and magazines (use of italics if writing on a computer)

• Colons to separate hours and minutes and be used after greetings in a business letter

• Commas in a series, addresses, greetings and closings (a friendly letter), after closings in a business letter, to set off speaking to someone, and to separate days and years in dates

The section dealing with the topic of abbreviation explains how to accurately write streets and highways, measurement (English and metric), and words measuring time.

The parts of speech section reviews singular and plural nouns including irregular spellings, action and linking verbs along with verb tenses, types of pronouns, the difference between adjectives and adverbs, and prepositional phrases.

The section that teaches vocabulary covers grade-level synonyms, antonyms, homophones, compound words, and multi-meaning words. It teaches students how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words and the value of sentence clues to help them understand the text.

The last section that deals with writing instructs students on three types of writing: opinion writing to share their thoughts, informative writing to explain or share some information using facts and definitions, and narrative writing to tell a story. Students can explore their creativity in creating imaginary titles for different kinds of writing. Graphic organizers teach how to break down the main idea into details and aid in helping them craft their writing. A “How to Piece” teaches students to list in order what needs to be done, for example, to blow bubbles. In teaching narrative writing, a graphic organizer is also suggested. Breaking the story into beginning, middle, and end parts will help students more readily combine their thoughts into one complete story. Specific word suggestions are taught to enhance the different types of writing.

The Leaping into Language Arts Grade 4 resource is simple to use, yet very complete!

Common Core Standards Aligned with the Text:

Conventions of Standard English

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Knowledge of Language

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.6

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).

What's Included

A total of 244 pages.