What Your Fourth Grader Will Learn This Year
Fourth grade students will learn the following concepts and ideas by the end of the school year:
Reading
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Identifies main idea and details
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Distinguishes between fact and opinion
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Recognizes cause and effect, sequence of events, author’s purpose and story structure
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Writes short and extended responses for questions
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Summarizes stories; and compares and contrasts
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Makes inferences and predictions
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Develops vocabulary knowledge
Social Studies
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The students learn about Florida’s past, present and future. The themes that relate to Florida are: Geography, Native Floridians, Explorers, Colonization, Statehood, Economic Growth, Modern Florida and Government.
Writing
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Students prepare for the writing portion of the FSA as they learn how to write 5 paragraph evidence based expository and opinion essays.
Math
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Number sense, concepts & operation (counting, order, estimation, fractions, decimals, percents, exponents, number stories, facts, algorithms, and mental math)
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Algebraic Thinking (properties, sequences, functions, number sentences, variables and formulas)
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Data Probability (mean, median, mode, range, tally charts, line plots, graphs and probability)
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Measurement (weight, capacity, money, time, temperature, perimeter, area, volume, diameter, circumference and angle)
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Geometry (2 and 3 dimensional shapes, symmetry, congruence and angles)
Science
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Earth Science (water cycle, weather, earth’s surface, rapid and slow changes and natural resources)
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Physical Science (matter, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, motion, and simple machines)
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Space and Technology (the solar system and the effects of technology)
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Life Science (plants, animals, food webs, ecosystems, and the human body)