IXL skill plan | MCAP English Language Arts and Literacy 4th grade plan for the Maryland Assessments

Skill plan for the Maryland Assessments - MCAP English Language Arts and Literacy 4th grade

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Reading
Reading Informational
Key Ideas and Details		Reading comprehension 1. Read about famous people Main idea and details 2. Use key details to determine the main idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Text relationships 4. Determine the order of events in informational texts 5. Match causes and effects in informational texts 6. Match problems with their solutions 7. Compare and contrast in informational texts
Key Ideas and Details
Reading comprehension 1. Read about famous people Main idea and details 2. Use key details to determine the main idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Text relationships 4. Determine the order of events in informational texts 5. Match causes and effects in informational texts 6. Match problems with their solutions 7. Compare and contrast in informational texts

Craft and Structure		1. Identify and analyze text structures
Craft and Structure
1. Identify and analyze text structures

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas		Visual elements and text features 1. Read graphic organizers 2. Select and use text features Compare texts 3. Compare information from two texts Integrate information 4. Combine main ideas from two texts
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Visual elements and text features 1. Read graphic organizers 2. Select and use text features Compare texts 3. Compare information from two texts Integrate information 4. Combine main ideas from two texts
Reading Literature
Key Ideas and Details		Reading comprehension 1. Read realistic fiction Inference 2. Draw inferences from a text Story elements 3. Identify story elements 4. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales Summary 5. Summarize a story Character analysis 6. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
Key Ideas and Details
Reading comprehension 1. Read realistic fiction Inference 2. Draw inferences from a text Story elements 3. Identify story elements 4. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales Summary 5. Summarize a story Character analysis 6. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

Craft and Structure		Literary text structures 1. Read poetry 2. Read drama Point of view 3. Distinguish points of view
Craft and Structure
Literary text structures 1. Read poetry 2. Read drama Point of view 3. Distinguish points of view

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas		1. Compare mythological illustrations
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
1. Compare mythological illustrations
Vocabulary
Craft and Structure		1. Read about science and nature 2. Read historical fiction
Craft and Structure
1. Read about science and nature 2. Read historical fiction

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use		Vocabulary in context 1. Find synonyms in context 2. Find antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Use academic vocabulary in context Multiple-meaning words 5. Which definition matches the sentence? Shades of meaning 6. Describe the difference between related words Figurative language 7. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors 8. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 9. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 Roots and affixes 10. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 11. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Vocabulary in context 1. Find synonyms in context 2. Find antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Use academic vocabulary in context Multiple-meaning words 5. Which definition matches the sentence? Shades of meaning 6. Describe the difference between related words Figurative language 7. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors 8. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 9. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 Roots and affixes 10. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 11. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Writing
Written Expression
Informative/Explanatory		Introductions and conclusions 1. Choose the best topic sentence 2. Choose the best concluding sentence Organization 3. Organize information by topic Development and support 4. Identify supporting details in informational texts Language 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 6. Choose the best transition 7. Which sentence is more formal?
Informative/Explanatory
Introductions and conclusions 1. Choose the best topic sentence 2. Choose the best concluding sentence Organization 3. Organize information by topic Development and support 4. Identify supporting details in informational texts Language 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 6. Choose the best transition 7. Which sentence is more formal?

Narrative		Sequence 1. Put the sentences in order Language 2. Add imagery to stories 3. Show character emotions and traits
Narrative
Sequence 1. Put the sentences in order Language 2. Add imagery to stories 3. Show character emotions and traits

Opinion		Opinion statements 1. Identify an author's statement of opinion Development and support 2. Choose reasons to support an opinion 3. Identify supporting details in literary texts Language 4. Use subordinating conjunctions 5. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
Opinion
Opinion statements 1. Identify an author's statement of opinion Development and support 2. Choose reasons to support an opinion 3. Identify supporting details in literary texts Language 4. Use subordinating conjunctions 5. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
Written Conventions
Sentence variety		1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Create compound sentences
Sentence variety
1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Create compound sentences

Grammar and usage		Relative pronouns and adverbs 1. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 2. Use relative adverbs Verbs 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Use the correct modal verb Adjectives 5. Order adjectives Prepositions 6. Prepositions: review
Grammar and usage
Relative pronouns and adverbs 1. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 2. Use relative adverbs Verbs 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Use the correct modal verb Adjectives 5. Order adjectives Prepositions 6. Prepositions: review

Spelling		1. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves 2. Word pattern analogies 3. Spell adjectives that compare
Spelling
1. Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves 2. Word pattern analogies 3. Spell adjectives that compare

Punctuation		1. Punctuating dialogue
Punctuation
1. Punctuating dialogue

Capitalization		1. Capitalization: review
Capitalization
1. Capitalization: review

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