Fourth Grade Language Arts

Instructor: Evelyn Metcalf

 

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Students explore the many genres of literature in fourth grade. Students participate in an independent Genre Exploration throughout the course of the year. Students read and discuss novels in small groups for deeper understanding and higher ordering reasoning. Each novel introduced is related to the big question: How does where and when we live influence how we live?. Students kick off the year as participants in the Young Authors Bookwriting Contest sponsored by Charlotte Parent Magazine. They generate an original story idea, develop the plot and characters, and formulate an engaging story for young children. Students work on their book illustrations in art class, using a variety of mediums. Students learn the art of storytelling with a visit from a North Carolina author. After studying the style of the visiting author, students are asked to write their own story in the same style. A study of Native American literature coincides with their studies of the Native American people of North Carolina in Social Studies. Short stories, novels, trade books, plays, poems, and oral presentations are all components of the Language Arts program at this grade level.

 

Writing is an integral part of the Language Arts curriculum. Writer’s Workshop is purposefully created to model different types of writing as the students understand the writing process. Students understand that writing is a very interactive process as they conference regularly with the teacher and their peers in order to revise, edit, and publish their writing. Fourth graders focus on descriptive, narrative, and expository writing. As students write poetry, they focus on their descriptive writing in order to paint a picture with words. They research information from a variety of sources and convey that information through expository writing and projects. Students also write compositions focusing on point of view, taking varying perspectives of the characters in their stories. By the fourth grade year, students are expected to have mastered basic grammar rules and apply that knowledge in their written work. There are continuous opportunities for students to share their work through oral presentations.

 

 

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