Grade 4 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying author's/speaker's point of view
    • first person
    • second person
    • third person (omniscient)
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: root words
  4. Identify multimedia elements: text (headlines, subtitles, slogans)
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 6 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: sequential
  3. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: relating story to one's experiences
  4. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: prefixes: un-, in-, il-, ir-, im-, mis-, dis-
  5. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: number of nouns: regular
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts
    • identifying the main idea
    • summarizing story events
  2. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: suffixes: -able, -en, -ful, -ion, -less, -er, -or, -ly, -ible, -ness
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: kinds of nouns: mass, count
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: setting, theme, genre
  2. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: outcomes of events
  3. Comprehend literary texts: drawing conclusions
  4. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: compound words
  5. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns: personal
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing sound devices
    • onomatopoeia
    • alliteration
  2. Comprehend literary texts: differentiating fantasy from reality
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using context clues
    • synonyms
    • antonyms
  4. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs: action
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: informal
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • simple present
    • simple past
    • simple future
  3. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: using introduction, body, and conclusion
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using active and passive voices
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adjectives: descriptive/qualitative or attributive
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: composing complex sentences
  4. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: narrative
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining (topic, main idea, supporting details): inductive organization (pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types: enumeration-description
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
  4. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: using introduction, body, and conclusion
  5. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: enumeration-description
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • making a summary
  2. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters (e.g., excuse, invitation, gratitude, etc.)
  3. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Identify visual elements: using lines
    • straight
    • diagonal and zigzag
    • thin, thick, broken, and dotted
  2. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • interpreting lines, shapes, and colors used to convey meaning
    • interpreting images/ideas that are explicitly used to influence viewers (symbolism)
    • identifying the purpose of the visual text
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Identify real or make-believe, fact or non-fact images
  2. Comprehend literary texts: summarizing story events
  3. Comprehend informational texts: making a summary
  4. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: using introduction, body, and conclusion
  5. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters (e.g., excuse, invitation, gratitude, etc.)

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying author's/speaker's point of view
    • first person
    • second person
    • third person (omniscient)
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: root words
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 6 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: sequential
  3. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: relating story to one's experiences
  4. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using context clues
    • definition
    • exemplification
  5. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: informal
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing sound devices
    • onomatopoeia
    • alliteration
    • assonance
  2. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning: simile
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: prefixes: non-, anti-, de-, mal-, sub-, a-, under-
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: setting, theme, genre
  2. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: outcomes of events
  3. Comprehend literary texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • identifying the main idea
  4. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: suffixes: -dom, -ity/-ty, -ment, -ship, -wise, -al, -age, -ious/-ous
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts
    • summarizing story events
    • differentiating fantasy from reality
  2. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: noun-forming suffixes
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: number of nouns: irregular
  4. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: kinds of nouns: collective, concrete, abstract
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns
    • indefinite
    • possessive
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs
    • action
    • helping
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs: simple present
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • simple past
    • simple future
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence
    • using active and passive voices
    • composing complex sentences
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adjectives: quantitative/numeral
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adjectives
    • degrees of regular adjectives
    • degrees of irregular adjectives
  2. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: using introduction, body, and conclusion
  3. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: narrative
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining (topic, main idea, supporting details): inductive organization (pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types: enumeration-description
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types: time order
    • chronology
    • procedural
  4. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts
    • making a summary
    • distinguishing fact from opinion (statements of facts, opinions, and fact-based statements of opinion)
  2. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: time order
    • chronology
    • procedural
  3. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters (e.g., excuse, invitation, gratitude, etc.)
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
    • using eye contact
    • using haptics
  2. Identify visual elements: using shapes
    • geometric
    • organic
    • abstract
  3. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • interpreting lines, shapes, and colors used to convey meaning
    • interpreting images/ideas that are explicitly used to influence viewers (symbolism)
    • identifying the purpose of the visual text
  4. Identify real or make-believe, fact or non-fact images
  5. Identify multimedia elements: graphics (photographs, drawings, graphs, illustrations, icons, etc.)

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying author's/speaker's point of view
    • first person
    • second person
    • third person (omniscient)
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: root words
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 6 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: sequential
  3. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: setting, theme, genre
  4. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: relating story to one's experiences
  5. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using context clues: exemplification
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing sound devices
    • onomatopoeia
    • alliteration
    • assonance
    • consonance
  2. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning: simile
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning: metaphor
  2. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: outcomes of events
  3. Comprehend literary texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • identifying the main idea
    • summarizing story events
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: differentiating fantasy from reality
  2. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: prefixes
    • pre-, post-, semi-, over-, fore-, trans-
    • uni-, mono-, bi-, tri-, quad-, multi-, poly-
  3. Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: adjective-forming suffixes
  4. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: informal
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: number of nouns: irregular
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: kinds of nouns: collective, concrete, abstract
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns
    • possessive
    • demonstrative
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs
    • action
    • helping
    • linking (and sense)
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • simple present
    • simple past
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs: simple future
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using active and passive voices
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adjectives: series (quality, size, shape, color)
  4. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: composing complex sentences
  5. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: using introduction, body, and conclusion
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining (topic, main idea, supporting details): inductive organization (pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types: recount
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
  4. Comprehend informational texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • making a summary
    • distinguishing fact from opinion (statements of facts, opinions, and fact-based statements of opinion)
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types
    • narrative
    • recount
  2. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters (e.g., excuse, invitation, gratitude, etc.)
  3. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
    • using eye contact
    • using haptics
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Identify visual elements
    • using colors (general meaning of colors)
    • using space (three-dimensional, four-dimensional, and proportional)
  2. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • interpreting lines, shapes, and colors used to convey meaning
    • interpreting images/ideas that are explicitly used to influence viewers (symbolism)
    • identifying the purpose of the visual text
  3. Identify real or make-believe, fact or non-fact images
  4. Create a visual text drawn from visual elements learned
  5. Identify multimedia elements: graphics (photographs, drawings, graphs, illustrations, icons, etc.)