1. Welcome to Curriculum Night!
Thank you for coming!

2. 4th Grade Curriculum standards

4. Literacy – Major Concepts
Four Main Categories:
Literature
Skills focused on character driven fiction stories
Informational Text
Skills focused on the understanding of non-fiction texts
Writing
Skills focused on the writing of personal narratives, opinion pieces, and research writing
Language
Skills focused on grammar and conventions

5. Balanced Literacy Reading Mini-lesson to teach skills
Independent/Guided Reading
Skill based practice
Novel Studies/Book Clubs
Interactive Read-Aloud
Model reading strategies and responses
Word Work
Word Study - Prefixes/Suffixes
Making Meaning – Vocabulary
Using Context Clues strategies
Writing—Empowering Writers
Planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing

6. Math- Major Concepts Operations and Algebraic Thinking - 4.OA
Number and Operations Fractions - 4.NF
Parts of a fraction
Comparing fractions / Finding equivalent fractions
Adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions
Measurement and Data – 4.MD
Area and perimeter
Metric measurements
Measuring angles
Geometry – 4.G
Characteristics of 2-D shapes
Operations and Algebraic Thinking - 4.OA
Multi-step word problems
Understanding factors and multiples
Number and Operations in Base Ten - 4.NBT
Understanding place value
Understanding properties of the operations

7. NC.4.OA.4 Finding factors of a number is now limited to 50 instead of 100.
NC.4.NBT.4 and NC.4.NBT.7 the range of numbers for place value and the operations of addition and subtraction are limited to 100,000.
NC.4.MD.1 Customary measurement was removed from 4th grade. Metric measurement is now the focus in 4th grade to align and support place value understanding with decimals.
NC.4.MD.3 Finding areas of rectilinear figures with known side lengths, was moved from 3rd grade to 4th grade.
NC.4.MD.4 Fractional values on a line plot has been removed from this standard, and the focus is working with categorical and numerical data

8. Social Studies History of North Carolina (Culture, Symbols & Events)
Geography and Environmental Literacy
Economics and Financial Literacy (Supply, Demand & Scarcity)
Civics and Government (Local & State)

9. Science Scientific Method Force and Motion (Electricity)
Matter: Properties and Change (Rocks & Minerals)
Energy: Conservation and Transfer (Light, Heat, Sound, Electrical, Magnetic)
Earth in the Universe (Moon Phases)
Earth History (Fossils)
Molecular Biology (Food & Nutrition)