Welcome to Fourth Grade!
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Purpose of the Guide
Students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools follow the state of North Carolina’s expectations for what every student will know and be able to do by the end of their current grade level. This guide is designed to help you support your child by understanding those expectations, provide everyday activities to reinforce their learning at home and partner with their teachers throughout the school year.
This guide includes…Key Skills for Reading and Math
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- Understand the most important things your child should know and be able to do by the end of the school year.
Questions to Ask Your Child
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- Engage in conversations with your child using these suggested reading and math questions.
Topics to Discuss with the Teacher
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- Find sample questions and topics you might want to talk about with the teacher related to reading and math skills.
Learning Activities
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- Explore some easy ways you can support your child’s learning important reading and math concepts and skills.
Words to Know
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- Learn some important words and acronyms used at school to “speak the same language”.
Helpful Resources to Practice Skills at Home
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- Click the link to access a collection of reading and math resources aligned to your child’s grade level.
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Resource Guides
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Quarter 1
- Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
- With guidance and support from adults, use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing (using word processing skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
What does this look like?
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Quarter 2
Quarter 2
- Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.
What does it look like?
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Quarter 3
Quarter 3
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including words that affect meaning and tone
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing, with consideration to task and purpose.
What does it look like?
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Quarter 4
Quarter 4
- Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
- With guidance and support from adults, use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing (using word processing skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
What does it look like?
How 4th Graders use reading to build knowledge
What does a 4th Grader's Writing look Like?
Activities to Try:
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Coach to Fluent Reading: Draw attention to punctuation while reading and have the child reread to increase fluency after discussing the punctuation. Watch Coach to Fluent Reading.
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Coach to Fluent Reading: Draw attention to punctuation while reading and have the child reread to increase fluency after discussing the punctuation. Watch Coach to Fluent Reading.
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Help your child organize his/her thoughts by planning what he/she wants to write. Using sticky notes or a graphic organizer will provide a visual way to accomplish this.
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Encourage your child to write about a topic important to them. Have them include an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
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Model writing in everyday life. Encourage your child to make a list, write a “thank you” note, write a product review, or write instructions about how to take care of a plant or a pet.
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Quarter 1
- Students explore number characteristics
- Explore fraction concepts of equivalence and comparing
- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
- Online Game: Equivalence
- Printable Game: "Close To"
- Printable Activity: Comparing Fractions
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Quarter 2
- Explore fraction concepts of equivalence and comparing
- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
- Online Game: Equivalence
- Printable Activity: Comparing Fractions
- Printable Game: "Close To"
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Quarter 3
- Use fraction equivalents to understand and compare decimals to the hundredths
- Online Activity 1: Recognize tenths and hundredths
- Online Game 2: Fill Two
- Printable Activity 1: Decimal Representations
- Printable Activity 2: Fraction Go Fish
- Use fraction equivalents to understand and compare decimals to the hundredths
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Quarter 4
- Geometry: Use characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals to solve problems
- Online Activity Triangle Sort
- Printable Activity Puzzling Pizza Problem Student Copy.pdf
- Online Game Identify the Quadrilateral
- Geometry: Use characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals to solve problems