What Will Your Child Learn in School This Year?
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A MESSAGE TO OUR FAMILIES th Welcome to the Phoenix Elementary School District! Our schools are 4 GRADE committed to providing a high-quality Learning Expectations educational program for your children by setting high expectations for their performance in the classroom. We believe that strong ties to our families and community help your child become a responsible, life-long learner. This brochure is a summary of grade level learning expectations for Language Arts, English Language Learners, Mathematics and Science. By the end of this school year, mastery of these skills will prepare your child for success next school year. The learning expectations listed here WHAT WILL YOUR summarize the Phoenix Elementary District curriculum. These expectations reflect the goals of the school district to CHILD LEARN IN ensure a quality curriculum for students and accountability to the community. SCHOOL THIS YEAR? The Phoenix Elementary School District curriculum is guided by the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards. English Language Arts Follow this link to the Arizona Department of Education website for additional information about the English Language Learners academic standards: www.azed.gov/ standards-practices/. Mathematics Phoenix Elementary School District continues to update “curriculum pacing guides” used by our teachers to guide Science weekly lesson planning to ensure the Standards are implemented in our classrooms. In addition, our principals and teachers receive professional development training to effectively bring the curriculum to our students. Please contact your child’s teacher at any time, and be sure to attend conferences with your child’s teacher in October, February and March. Curriculum and Instruction 2017-2018 English Language Arts English Language Learners Reading, Writing, Language, Listening and Oral Language Speaking - Includes Fiction and Non-Fiction By the end of the school year, students should: By the end of the school year, students should: Express orally his or her own thinking and ideas Refer to details and examples in a text when Identify and apply conventions of Standard English explaining what the text says and when drawing in his or her communications inferences Listen actively to the ideas of others in order to Determine the main idea of a text and explain how acquire new knowledge it is supported by key details Summarize text Reading Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, By the end of the school year, students should: comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution) Demonstrate understanding of print concepts of of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text the English language or part of a text Identify and manipulate the sounds of the English Explain major differences between poems, drama, language and decode words, using knowledge of and prose referring to the structural elements of phonics, syllabication, and word parts poems Acquire English language vocabulary and use it in Compare the treatment of similar themes and relevant contexts topics and patterns of events in stories Analyze text for expression, enjoyment, and Compare a firsthand and secondhand account of response to other related content areas the same event or topic Read with fluency and accuracy Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject English Grammar, Structure and Usage knowledgeably By the end of the school year, students should: Write summaries or opinions about topics Use the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, supported with by organized facts, details, and pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and examples interjections Conduct short research projects on different Use the following grammar skills: phrase and aspects of a topic using evidence from books and clause construction, sentence construction, the Internet questions, agreement, questions and phonology Paraphrase and respond to information presented link in discussions, such as comparing and contrasting Speak and write in both simple and complex ideas and analyzing evidence that speakers use to sentences using regular and irregular subjects and support particular points verbs while incorporating a variety of sentence Relate words that are common in reading to words structures that reflect their understanding of with similar meanings (synonyms) and to their tense, subject-verb agreement, and parts of opposites (antonyms) speech Demonstrate command of the conventions of Express themselves in colloquial and written Standard English grammar and usage when writing forms that reflect their growing familiarity with or speaking different writing genres (expository, narrative, and research) as well as nuances in social interactions (asking directions, making invitations, offering suggestions) and by asking and responding to instructional questions, presenting narratives, and preparing and giving oral reports CONTINUED FROM Measurement and Data (MD) PREVIOUS PAGE English Language Learners By the end of the school year, students should: Solve problems involving measurement and Writing conversion of measurements from a larger unit to By the end of the school year, students should: a smaller unit Express his or her thinking and ideas in a variety of Represent and interpret data writing genres Geometric measurement: understand concepts of Identify and apply conventions of Standard English angle and measure angles in her or her communications Use the steps of the writing process as a writing Geometry (G) piece moves toward completion By the end of the school year, students should: Integrate elements of effective writing to develop Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify engaging and focused text shapes by properties of their lines and angles Demonstrate research skills by using a variety of reference materials to complete a variety of Mathematical Practices (MP) writing tasks By the end of the school year, students should: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving NOTE: Instruction will vary based on student’s them language level: Pre-Emergent, Emergent, Basic or Intermediate. Reason abstractly and quantitatively Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics Mathematics Use appropriate tools strategically Attend to precision Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA) Look for and make use of structure By the end of the school year, students should: Look for and express regularity in repeated Use the four operations with whole numbers to reasoning solve problems Gain familiarity with factors and multiples Generate and analyze patterns Science Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT) Fourth Grade Science Learning Modules By the end of the school year, students should: Magnetism and Electricity Generalize place value understanding for multi- digit whole numbers Water Planet Use place value understanding and properties of Sun, Moon and Stars operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic Science as Inquiry By the end of the school year, students should: Number and Operations—Fractions (NF) Use the scientific process By the end of the school year, students should: Create a model to illustrate a system Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and Organize and present scientific data ordering Communicate information about observations Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and and ideas extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers Write about scientific information in a report, log, or journal Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions History and Nature of Science By the end of the school year, students should: Describe major scientific contributions Identify milestones in science CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Science The Important Role of Parents, Guardians and Caregivers Personal and Social Perspectives in Science and Technology Let your child know that you value education By the end of the school year, students should: and believe he or she can succeed in school. Find Be able to explain how scientific knowledge is a out your school’s homework policy, establish part of many careers routines, and provide a quiet, well-lit place to Describe how science has helped change study. Remember that homework is your child’s technology responsibility; help by listening carefully and Describe how technology has helped change asking questions rather than providing answers. science Here are some ideas on how to help your child get the most out of his or her school experience: Life Science By the end of the school year, students should: Read children’s literature aloud, or set aside Understand the characteristics of living things time for your child to read independently and Describe ways various resources are used to meet discuss the story with you. the needs of a population Encourage your child to record ideas, Differentiate renewable resources from observations, and stories in a writer’s journal. nonrenewable resources Help your child seek information through Describe ways in which resources can be reading. Some examples of activities are conserved looking at maps to determine directions, following a recipe, or using dictionaries and Physical Science encyclopedias to find definitions and facts. By the end of the school year, students should: Encourage personal connections to books by Understand forms of energy and properties of asking your child which characters, places, magnetism situations from a story seem like those from