IXL Skill Plan | Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards: Grade 4

Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards: Grade 4

Skills available for Florida fourth-grade language arts standards

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Reading
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ELA.4.F	Foundations
ELA.4.F.1 Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills
ELA.4.F.1.3 Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.
ELA.4.F.1.3 Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.

ELA.4.F.1.3.a: Apply knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and write unfamiliar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in and out of context.		Multisyllabic words 1. Identify syllable types 2. Complete the sentence with the multisyllabic word 3. Spell multisyllabic words 4. Segment and read words with affixes 5. Segment multisyllabic words 6. Read multisyllabic words Morphemes 7. Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes 8. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 9. Use words with roots and affixes Word patterns 10. Word pattern analogies 11. Word pattern sentences Compound words 12. Form compound words with pictures 13. Form compound words 14. Form and use compound words Spelling 15. Learn to spell words with prefixes: dis-, mis-, pre- 16. Learn to spell words with suffixes: -able, -ish, -ment 17. Spell words with affixes: review
ELA.4.F.1.3.a: Apply knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and write unfamiliar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in and out of context.
Multisyllabic words 1. Identify syllable types 2. Complete the sentence with the multisyllabic word 3. Spell multisyllabic words 4. Segment and read words with affixes 5. Segment multisyllabic words 6. Read multisyllabic words Morphemes 7. Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes 8. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 9. Use words with roots and affixes Word patterns 10. Word pattern analogies 11. Word pattern sentences Compound words 12. Form compound words with pictures 13. Form compound words 14. Form and use compound words Spelling 15. Learn to spell words with prefixes: dis-, mis-, pre- 16. Learn to spell words with suffixes: -able, -ish, -ment 17. Spell words with affixes: review

ELA.4.F.1.4 Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.		Mixed practice: literary texts level 1 1. Read fantasy with illustrations 2. Read realistic fiction with illustrations 3. Read science fiction with illustrations Mixed practice: literary texts level 2 4. Read realistic fiction 5. Read historical fiction 6. Read drama Mixed practice: informational texts level 1 7. Read about animals 8. Read about art, music, and traditions 9. Read about famous places 10. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: informational texts level 2 11. Read about famous people 12. Read about business and technology 13. Read about science and nature 14. Read about history
ELA.4.F.1.4 Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.
Mixed practice: literary texts level 1 1. Read fantasy with illustrations 2. Read realistic fiction with illustrations 3. Read science fiction with illustrations Mixed practice: literary texts level 2 4. Read realistic fiction 5. Read historical fiction 6. Read drama Mixed practice: informational texts level 1 7. Read about animals 8. Read about art, music, and traditions 9. Read about famous places 10. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: informational texts level 2 11. Read about famous people 12. Read about business and technology 13. Read about science and nature 14. Read about history

ELA.4.R	Reading
ELA.4.R.1 Reading Prose and Poetry
ELA.4.R.1.1 Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.		Skill development: story elements 1. Identify story elements 2. Analyze plot elements 3. Summarize a story Skill development: supporting details 4. Draw inferences and identify supporting details 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts Skill development: characters 6. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 7. Compare and contrast characters Mixed practice: level 1 8. Read fantasy with illustrations 9. Read realistic fiction with illustrations 10. Read science fiction with illustrations Mixed practice: level 2 11. Read realistic fiction 12. Read historical fiction 13. Read drama
ELA.4.R.1.1 Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.
Skill development: story elements 1. Identify story elements 2. Analyze plot elements 3. Summarize a story Skill development: supporting details 4. Draw inferences and identify supporting details 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts Skill development: characters 6. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 7. Compare and contrast characters Mixed practice: level 1 8. Read fantasy with illustrations 9. Read realistic fiction with illustrations 10. Read science fiction with illustrations Mixed practice: level 2 11. Read realistic fiction 12. Read historical fiction 13. Read drama

ELA.4.R.1.2 Explain a stated or implied theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.		1. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales 2. Determine the themes of short stories
ELA.4.R.1.2 Explain a stated or implied theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.
1. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales 2. Determine the themes of short stories

ELA.4.R.1.3 Identify the narrator's point of view and explain the difference between a narrator's point of view and character perspective in a literary text.		Point of view 1. Distinguish points of view 2. Identify the narrative point of view
ELA.4.R.1.3 Identify the narrator's point of view and explain the difference between a narrator's point of view and character perspective in a literary text.
Point of view 1. Distinguish points of view 2. Identify the narrative point of view

ELA.4.R.1.4 Explain how rhyme and structure create meaning in a poem.		Poetry 1. Read poetry Skill development: rhyme and structure 2. Label the rhyme scheme 3. Identify elements of poetry
ELA.4.R.1.4 Explain how rhyme and structure create meaning in a poem.
Poetry 1. Read poetry Skill development: rhyme and structure 2. Label the rhyme scheme 3. Identify elements of poetry
ELA.4.R.2 Reading Informational Text
ELA.4.R.2.1 Explain how text features contribute to the meaning and identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, and description in texts.		Text structures 1. Identify and analyze text structures: problem and solution, sequence, description Skill development: text structures 2. Determine the order of events in informational texts 3. Match problems with their solutions Skill development: text features 4. Read graphic organizers 5. Select and use text features Extension: text structures 6. Identify and analyze text structures
ELA.4.R.2.1 Explain how text features contribute to the meaning and identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, and description in texts.
Text structures 1. Identify and analyze text structures: problem and solution, sequence, description Skill development: text structures 2. Determine the order of events in informational texts 3. Match problems with their solutions Skill development: text features 4. Read graphic organizers 5. Select and use text features Extension: text structures 6. Identify and analyze text structures

ELA.4.R.2.2 Explain how relevant details support the central idea, implied or explicit.		Central idea 1. Determine the central idea of a passage 2. Identify and analyze the central idea of a passage Skill development: details 3. Use key details to determine the central idea 4. Identify supporting details in informational texts Mixed practice: level 1 5. Read about animals 6. Read about art, music, and traditions 7. Read about famous places 8. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: level 2 9. Read about famous people 10. Read about business and technology 11. Read about science and nature 12. Read about history Extension 13. Combine central ideas from two texts
ELA.4.R.2.2 Explain how relevant details support the central idea, implied or explicit.
Central idea 1. Determine the central idea of a passage 2. Identify and analyze the central idea of a passage Skill development: details 3. Use key details to determine the central idea 4. Identify supporting details in informational texts Mixed practice: level 1 5. Read about animals 6. Read about art, music, and traditions 7. Read about famous places 8. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: level 2 9. Read about famous people 10. Read about business and technology 11. Read about science and nature 12. Read about history Extension 13. Combine central ideas from two texts

ELA.4.R.2.3 Explain an author's perspective toward a topic in an informational text.		Skill development: author's perspective 1. Identify the author's purpose and message 2. Distinguish points of view Extension 3. Compare information from two texts
ELA.4.R.2.3 Explain an author's perspective toward a topic in an informational text.
Skill development: author's perspective 1. Identify the author's purpose and message 2. Distinguish points of view Extension 3. Compare information from two texts

ELA.4.R.2.4 Explain an author's claim and the reasons and evidence used to support the claim.		Argumentative texts 1. Analyze argumentative texts Skill development: author's opinion 2. Identify an author's statement of opinion Skill development: details 3. Complete the opinion-reason-example table 4. Choose reasons to support an opinion 5. Identify supporting details in informational texts
ELA.4.R.2.4 Explain an author's claim and the reasons and evidence used to support the claim.
Argumentative texts 1. Analyze argumentative texts Skill development: author's opinion 2. Identify an author's statement of opinion Skill development: details 3. Complete the opinion-reason-example table 4. Choose reasons to support an opinion 5. Identify supporting details in informational texts
ELA.4.R.3 Reading Across Genres
ELA.4.R.3.1 Explain how figurative language contributes to meaning in text(s).		Analyze figurative language 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Skill development: similes and metaphors 2. Identify similes and metaphors 3. Similes and metaphors with pictures 4. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors Skill development: allusions 5. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Skill development: idioms and adages 6. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 7. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 8. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 9. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2
ELA.4.R.3.1 Explain how figurative language contributes to meaning in text(s).
Analyze figurative language 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Skill development: similes and metaphors 2. Identify similes and metaphors 3. Similes and metaphors with pictures 4. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors Skill development: allusions 5. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Skill development: idioms and adages 6. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 7. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 8. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 9. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2

ELA.4.R.3.2 Summarize a text to enhance comprehension.
ELA.4.R.3.2 Summarize a text to enhance comprehension.

ELA.4.R.3.2.a: Include plot and theme for a literary text.		Summarize 1. Summarize a story Theme 2. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales 3. Determine the themes of short stories Skill development: story and plot elements 4. Identify story elements 5. Analyze plot elements
ELA.4.R.3.2.a: Include plot and theme for a literary text.
Summarize 1. Summarize a story Theme 2. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales 3. Determine the themes of short stories Skill development: story and plot elements 4. Identify story elements 5. Analyze plot elements
ELA.4.R.3.2.b: Include the central idea and relevant details for an informational text.		Central idea and details 1. Use key details to determine the central idea 2. Determine the central idea of a passage Skill development: key details 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts Mixed practice: level 1 4. Read about animals 5. Read about art, music, and traditions 6. Read about famous places 7. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: level 2 8. Read about famous people 9. Read about business and technology 10. Read about science and nature 11. Read about history
ELA.4.R.3.2.b: Include the central idea and relevant details for an informational text.
Central idea and details 1. Use key details to determine the central idea 2. Determine the central idea of a passage Skill development: key details 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts Mixed practice: level 1 4. Read about animals 5. Read about art, music, and traditions 6. Read about famous places 7. Read about sports and hobbies Mixed practice: level 2 8. Read about famous people 9. Read about business and technology 10. Read about science and nature 11. Read about history

ELA.4.R.3.3 Compare and contrast accounts of the same event using primary and/or secondary sources.		Compare and contrast 1. Compare information from two texts Skill development: primary and secondary sources 2. Identify primary and secondary sources
ELA.4.R.3.3 Compare and contrast accounts of the same event using primary and/or secondary sources.
Compare and contrast 1. Compare information from two texts Skill development: primary and secondary sources 2. Identify primary and secondary sources

ELA.4.C	Communication
ELA.4.C.1 Communicating Through Writing
ELA.4.C.1.1 Demonstrate legible cursive writing skills.
ELA.4.C.1.1 Demonstrate legible cursive writing skills.


ELA.4.C.1.2 Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events and demonstrating an effective use of techniques such as descriptions and transitional words and phrases.		Organization 1. Put the sentences in order Descriptive details 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Add imagery to stories 4. Use personification Transitions 5. Use coordinating conjunctions 6. Use subordinating conjunctions 7. Choose the best transition 8. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction 9. Use linking words in paragraphs Skill development: transitions and sensory details 10. Sort sensory details 11. Identify sensory details 12. Identify time-order words
ELA.4.C.1.2 Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events and demonstrating an effective use of techniques such as descriptions and transitional words and phrases.
Organization 1. Put the sentences in order Descriptive details 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Add imagery to stories 4. Use personification Transitions 5. Use coordinating conjunctions 6. Use subordinating conjunctions 7. Choose the best transition 8. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction 9. Use linking words in paragraphs Skill development: transitions and sensory details 10. Sort sensory details 11. Identify sensory details 12. Identify time-order words

ELA.4.C.1.3 Write to make a claim supporting a perspective with logical reasons, using evidence from multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.		Author's purpose and perspective 1. Identify the author's purpose and message 2. Analyze argumentative texts 3. Identify an author's statement of opinion Supporting details 4. Complete the opinion-reason-example table 5. Choose reasons to support an opinion 6. Identify supporting details in literary texts 7. Identify supporting details in informational texts Skill development: transitions 8. Use coordinating conjunctions 9. Use subordinating conjunctions 10. Choose the best transition 11. Use linking words in paragraphs 12. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
ELA.4.C.1.3 Write to make a claim supporting a perspective with logical reasons, using evidence from multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.
Author's purpose and perspective 1. Identify the author's purpose and message 2. Analyze argumentative texts 3. Identify an author's statement of opinion Supporting details 4. Complete the opinion-reason-example table 5. Choose reasons to support an opinion 6. Identify supporting details in literary texts 7. Identify supporting details in informational texts Skill development: transitions 8. Use coordinating conjunctions 9. Use subordinating conjunctions 10. Choose the best transition 11. Use linking words in paragraphs 12. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction

ELA.4.C.1.4 Write expository texts about a topic, using multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.		Topic sentences 1. Choose the best topic sentence Concluding sentences 2. Choose the best concluding sentence Organization 3. Order items from most general to most specific 4. Organize information by topic 5. Remove the sentence that does not belong Supporting details 6. Identify supporting details in informational texts Transitions 7. Use coordinating conjunctions 8. Use subordinating conjunctions 9. Choose the best transition 10. Use linking words in paragraphs
ELA.4.C.1.4 Write expository texts about a topic, using multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.
Topic sentences 1. Choose the best topic sentence Concluding sentences 2. Choose the best concluding sentence Organization 3. Order items from most general to most specific 4. Organize information by topic 5. Remove the sentence that does not belong Supporting details 6. Identify supporting details in informational texts Transitions 7. Use coordinating conjunctions 8. Use subordinating conjunctions 9. Choose the best transition 10. Use linking words in paragraphs

ELA.4.C.1.5 Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, with guidance and support from adults and feedback from peers.		Planning 1. Put the sentences in order 2. Order items from most general to most specific 3. Organize information by topic Revision 4. Remove the sentence that does not belong 5. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 6. Add imagery to stories Editing 7. Correct errors with signs 8. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Skill development: complete sentences 9. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 10. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 11. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Skill development: sentence variety 12. Create varied sentences based on models Skill development: commas 13. Commas with a series 14. Commas with dates 15. Commas with the names of places 16. Commas with direct addresses 17. Commas with introductory words and phrases 18. Commas: review Skill development: capitalization 19. Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect 20. Capitalizing days, months, and holidays 21. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 22. Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents 23. Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages 24. Capitalization: review Skill development: formatting 25. Punctuating dialogue
ELA.4.C.1.5 Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, with guidance and support from adults and feedback from peers.
Planning 1. Put the sentences in order 2. Order items from most general to most specific 3. Organize information by topic Revision 4. Remove the sentence that does not belong 5. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 6. Add imagery to stories Editing 7. Correct errors with signs 8. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Skill development: complete sentences 9. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 10. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 11. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Skill development: sentence variety 12. Create varied sentences based on models Skill development: commas 13. Commas with a series 14. Commas with dates 15. Commas with the names of places 16. Commas with direct addresses 17. Commas with introductory words and phrases 18. Commas: review Skill development: capitalization 19. Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect 20. Capitalizing days, months, and holidays 21. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 22. Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents 23. Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages 24. Capitalization: review Skill development: formatting 25. Punctuating dialogue
ELA.4.C.2 Communicating Orally
ELA.4.C.2.1 Present information orally, in a logical sequence, using nonverbal cues, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.
ELA.4.C.2.1 Present information orally, in a logical sequence, using nonverbal cues, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

ELA.4.C.3 Following Conventions
ELA.4.C.3.1 Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.		Modal verbs 1. Identify main verbs and helping verbs 2. Use the correct modal verb Dependent and independent clauses 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses Regular past tense verbs 4. Which sentence is in the regular past tense? 5. Identify verbs in the regular past tense 6. Form and use the regular past tense Irregular past tense verbs 7. Identify the irregular past tense 8. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 9. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 10. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 11. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 To be and to have 12. To be: use the correct form 13. To have: use the correct form Past, present, and future tense 14. Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense? 15. Change the sentence to future tense Progressive verb tense 16. Use the progressive verb tenses 17. Form the progressive verb tenses Perfect verb tense 18. Choose between the past tense and past participle 19. Use the perfect verb tenses 20. Form the perfect verb tenses Conjunctions 21. Use coordinating conjunctions 22. Use subordinating conjunctions 23. Identify coordinating conjunctions 24. Identify subordinating conjunctions 25. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction 26. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions Personal pronouns 27. Identify personal pronouns 28. Choose between subject and object personal pronouns 29. Replace the noun with a personal pronoun 30. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" Possessive pronouns 31. Identify possessive pronouns 32. Use possessive pronouns Reflexive pronouns 33. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 34. Use reflexive pronouns Relative pronouns 35. Identify relative pronouns 36. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 37. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Skill development: subject and predicate 38. Identify the complete subject of a sentence 39. Identify the complete predicate of a sentence 40. Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence Skill development: adjectives 41. Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? 42. Identify the adjective that describes the noun 43. Identify adjectives 44. Order adjectives Skill development: adverbs 45. Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where? 46. Identify adverbs Skill development: relative adverbs 47. Use relative adverbs Skill development: adjectives and adverbs 48. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 49. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Skill development: subject-verb agreement 50. Is the subject singular or plural? 51. Use the correct subject or verb 52. Pronoun-verb agreement 53. Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects Skill development: sentences, fragments, and run-ons 54. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 55. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 56. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? 57. Order the words to create a sentence Skill development: compound sentences 58. Is the sentence simple or compound? 59. Create compound sentences Skill development: sentence types 60. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Skill development: common and proper nouns 61. Identify common and proper nouns Skill development: regular plural nouns 62. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 63. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 64. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves 65. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves Skill development: irregular plural nouns 66. Is the noun singular or plural? 67. Form and use irregular plurals Skill development: possessive nouns 68. Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives 69. Form the singular or plural possessive 70. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Skill development: prepositions 71. Identify prepositions 72. Identify prepositions and their objects 73. Identify prepositional phrases 74. Prepositions: review Skill development: contractions 75. Pronoun-verb contractions 76. Contractions with "not" Skill development: commas 77. Commas with a series 78. Commas with direct addresses 79. Commas with compound and complex sentences Skill development: capitalization 80. Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect 81. Capitalizing days, months, and holidays 82. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 83. Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents 84. Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages 85. Capitalizing titles Skill development: punctuation 86. Punctuating dialogue Skill development: spelling 87. Word pattern analogies 88. Learn to spell words with prefixes: dis-, mis-, pre- 89. Learn to spell words with suffixes: -able, -ish, -ment 90. Spell words with affixes: review 91. Learn to spell common words: set 1 92. Learn to spell common words: set 2 93. Spell common words: sets 1 and 2 94. Learn to spell common words: set 3 95. Learn to spell common words: set 4 96. Spell common words: sets 3 and 4 97. Spell common words: review sets 1–4 98. Use the correct frequently confused word
ELA.4.C.3.1 Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Modal verbs 1. Identify main verbs and helping verbs 2. Use the correct modal verb Dependent and independent clauses 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses Regular past tense verbs 4. Which sentence is in the regular past tense? 5. Identify verbs in the regular past tense 6. Form and use the regular past tense Irregular past tense verbs 7. Identify the irregular past tense 8. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 9. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 10. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 11. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 To be and to have 12. To be: use the correct form 13. To have: use the correct form Past, present, and future tense 14. Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense? 15. Change the sentence to future tense Progressive verb tense 16. Use the progressive verb tenses 17. Form the progressive verb tenses Perfect verb tense 18. Choose between the past tense and past participle 19. Use the perfect verb tenses 20. Form the perfect verb tenses Conjunctions 21. Use coordinating conjunctions 22. Use subordinating conjunctions 23. Identify coordinating conjunctions 24. Identify subordinating conjunctions 25. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction 26. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions Personal pronouns 27. Identify personal pronouns 28. Choose between subject and object personal pronouns 29. Replace the noun with a personal pronoun 30. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" Possessive pronouns 31. Identify possessive pronouns 32. Use possessive pronouns Reflexive pronouns 33. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 34. Use reflexive pronouns Relative pronouns 35. Identify relative pronouns 36. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 37. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Skill development: subject and predicate 38. Identify the complete subject of a sentence 39. Identify the complete predicate of a sentence 40. Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence Skill development: adjectives 41. Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? 42. Identify the adjective that describes the noun 43. Identify adjectives 44. Order adjectives Skill development: adverbs 45. Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where? 46. Identify adverbs Skill development: relative adverbs 47. Use relative adverbs Skill development: adjectives and adverbs 48. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 49. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Skill development: subject-verb agreement 50. Is the subject singular or plural? 51. Use the correct subject or verb 52. Pronoun-verb agreement 53. Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects Skill development: sentences, fragments, and run-ons 54. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 55. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 56. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? 57. Order the words to create a sentence Skill development: compound sentences 58. Is the sentence simple or compound? 59. Create compound sentences Skill development: sentence types 60. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Skill development: common and proper nouns 61. Identify common and proper nouns Skill development: regular plural nouns 62. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 63. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 64. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves 65. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves Skill development: irregular plural nouns 66. Is the noun singular or plural? 67. Form and use irregular plurals Skill development: possessive nouns 68. Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives 69. Form the singular or plural possessive 70. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Skill development: prepositions 71. Identify prepositions 72. Identify prepositions and their objects 73. Identify prepositional phrases 74. Prepositions: review Skill development: contractions 75. Pronoun-verb contractions 76. Contractions with "not" Skill development: commas 77. Commas with a series 78. Commas with direct addresses 79. Commas with compound and complex sentences Skill development: capitalization 80. Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect 81. Capitalizing days, months, and holidays 82. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features 83. Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents 84. Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages 85. Capitalizing titles Skill development: punctuation 86. Punctuating dialogue Skill development: spelling 87. Word pattern analogies 88. Learn to spell words with prefixes: dis-, mis-, pre- 89. Learn to spell words with suffixes: -able, -ish, -ment 90. Spell words with affixes: review 91. Learn to spell common words: set 1 92. Learn to spell common words: set 2 93. Spell common words: sets 1 and 2 94. Learn to spell common words: set 3 95. Learn to spell common words: set 4 96. Spell common words: sets 3 and 4 97. Spell common words: review sets 1–4 98. Use the correct frequently confused word
ELA.4.C.4 Researching
ELA.4.C.4.1 Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic, using multiple valid sources.		Sources 1. Identify primary and secondary sources Organization 2. Organize information by topic Supporting details 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts Plagiarism 4. Identify and correct plagiarism
ELA.4.C.4.1 Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic, using multiple valid sources.
Sources 1. Identify primary and secondary sources Organization 2. Organize information by topic Supporting details 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts Plagiarism 4. Identify and correct plagiarism
ELA.4.C.5 Creating and Collaborating
ELA.4.C.5.1 Arrange multimedia elements to create emphasis in oral or written tasks.
ELA.4.C.5.1 Arrange multimedia elements to create emphasis in oral or written tasks.


ELA.4.C.5.2 Use digital writing tools individually or collaboratively to plan, draft, and revise writing.
ELA.4.C.5.2 Use digital writing tools individually or collaboratively to plan, draft, and revise writing.

ELA.4.V	Vocabulary
ELA.4.V.1 Finding Meaning
ELA.4.V.1.1 Recognize and appropriately use grade-level academic vocabulary in speaking and writing.		Academic vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Use academic vocabulary in context
ELA.4.V.1.1 Recognize and appropriately use grade-level academic vocabulary in speaking and writing.
Academic vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Use academic vocabulary in context

ELA.4.V.1.2 Apply knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, base words, and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in grade-level content.		Prefixes 1. Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis- 2. Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis- Suffixes 3. Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less 4. Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness 5. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment 6. Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review Prefixes and suffixes 7. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 8. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning Greek and Latin roots 9. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 10. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 11. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 12. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 13. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 14. Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings Roots and affixes 15. Use words with roots and affixes
ELA.4.V.1.2 Apply knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, base words, and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in grade-level content.
Prefixes 1. Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis- 2. Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis- Suffixes 3. Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less 4. Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness 5. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment 6. Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review Prefixes and suffixes 7. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 8. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning Greek and Latin roots 9. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 10. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 11. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 12. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 13. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 14. Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings Roots and affixes 15. Use words with roots and affixes

ELA.4.V.1.3 Use context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning and unknown words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.		Context clues 1. Find words using context 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 5. Use academic vocabulary in context Synonyms 6. Choose the synonym 7. Which sentence has the same meaning? 8. Find synonyms in context Antonyms 9. Choose the antonym 10. Which sentence uses an antonym? 11. Find antonyms in context Multiple-meaning words 12. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 13. Which definition matches the sentence? 14. Which sentence matches the definition? Homophones 15. Homophones with pictures 16. Identify homophones 17. Match homophones to their meanings 18. Use the correct homophone Shades of meaning 19. Shades of meaning with pictures 20. Describe the difference between related words 21. Positive and negative connotation Figurative language 22. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors 23. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 24. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 25. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 26. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 27. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 28. Use personification Reference materials 29. Use dictionary entries 30. Use dictionary definitions 31. Use thesaurus entries
ELA.4.V.1.3 Use context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning and unknown words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.
Context clues 1. Find words using context 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 5. Use academic vocabulary in context Synonyms 6. Choose the synonym 7. Which sentence has the same meaning? 8. Find synonyms in context Antonyms 9. Choose the antonym 10. Which sentence uses an antonym? 11. Find antonyms in context Multiple-meaning words 12. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 13. Which definition matches the sentence? 14. Which sentence matches the definition? Homophones 15. Homophones with pictures 16. Identify homophones 17. Match homophones to their meanings 18. Use the correct homophone Shades of meaning 19. Shades of meaning with pictures 20. Describe the difference between related words 21. Positive and negative connotation Figurative language 22. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors 23. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 24. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 25. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 26. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 27. Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 28. Use personification Reference materials 29. Use dictionary entries 30. Use dictionary definitions 31. Use thesaurus entries