4th Grade Curriculum Overview

SEQUENCE OF ACADEMIC UNITS

Reading Falling Into the Reading for Sensing Verse: Digging for Deeper The Heros Read Herring: This Is Your Life: Biographies
Authors Goal: Change: Mood and Knowledge: Journey: Mysteries
Responding to Social Issue Imagery in Poetry Research Mythology
Literature Book Clubs

Writing A Moment in My World, Violets Are Blue: Extra, Extra: Writing Forever On Each On Demand: Clouding the Objectifying
Time: Memoirs My Voice: Expressing the a Revolutionary Shoulder: The Expository Writing Facts: Creating the Story:
Writing in Emotion Deep War Paper Presence of Mini- Mysteries Writing the
Response to Within You Ancient and Biography of
Issues in Our Contemporary Inventions
World Heroes and
Villains

Biographies
Shared/ Math problems Nonfiction (close reading) Paired texts
Close Maps
Reading Poems
Short fictional texts

Read Stargirl, Jerry Spinnelli Sylvia & Aki/ I Am Malala Hidden Westing Game
Aloud (Realistic Fiction) (Social Issues) (Graphic Novel) When You Reach Me (Mysteries)

Social Understanding Geo-Social Life on the Give Me Liberty or We the People: Making Noise Lightbulb Moments: American
Studies Structures: Geography as the Ground: A Study Give Me Death: Understanding and Making Innovations
Foundation of Historical of Colonial Determining the Represented Change:
Understanding American Significance within and Silent Voices Historical Figures
Context the Era of the of a New Nation Who Changed
American Americas
Revolution Course

Math Multiplication Modeling Multiplication and Geometry and Addition & Fractions and Multiplication Problem
and Division 1 with Data Division 2 Data Measurement Subtraction Decimals and Division 3 Solving


 Science Introduction Plants and Plant and animals Electricity and Electricity and Water - the Interactions with air, water, and
to Collecting animals in in their Magnetism - Magnetism - unique land - Erosion and weathering
Data in their environments - Properties of Types of circuits properties of
Science using Environments Observing electricity and and how they water, the water
senses (no - Animal terrarium, Owl magnetism and work or do not cycle
opinions) adaptations pellet dissection what are work.
and plants conductors and
Plants and role in the insulators Laws of
Animals in environment, magnetism and
their food chains, Types of circuits building circuits
Environment setting up
terrarium

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