The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning. These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8 are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered.  These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 4

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

Explain steps in a process (e.g., problem solving in mathematics, life cycle of a butterfly in science).

*

x

x

Summarize information, including main idea, most important text-based facts, details, and/or ideas (e.g., newspaper, magazine, Internet articles, content journals).

*

x

x

Describe the components of setting (e.g., time, location, descriptive surroundings).

*

x

x

Recognize organizational patterns of text (e.g., main ideas and supporting details, compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence of events).

*

x

x

Determine character traits, using knowledge of the characters’ situations.

*

Distinguish fact versus opinion in text.

*

x

x

Identify and explain the elements of particular literary forms (e.g., poetry, short story, biography, journalistic writing, narrative).

*

x

Identify the best/worst part of an event or situation in text.

*

x

Identify and explain the author’s use of metaphor and onomatopoeia.

*

x

Identify literacy devices the author uses to appeal to the reader (e.g., humor, imagery).

*

x

Synthesize information in the text to extend the meaning (e.g., what might the next paragraph be about)

*

x

Infer characteristics, setting, plot events, theme, conflict.

*

x

Recognize and discuss an author’s values, ethics and beliefs included in many texts.

*

Identify and explain the difference between first, second and third person point of view.

*

Analyze how characters deal with diversity and adversity relating to real-world situations.

*

Use multiple texts to compare and contrast characters, settings, plots, themes, conflicts, and points of view.

*

Determine an author’s purpose for choosing a certain genre.

*

Determine an author’s purpose for including or omitting details to create meaning.

*

Make generalizations about a topic after reading more than one text (e.g., life during the Civil War after reading several informational/expository and literary/narrative accounts of this historic period).

*