Grade 4 English Overview
Miss Berndl's Fabulous Fours
Notebooks, Duo-Tangs & Texts
Reading Writing
Oral & Visual Communication
Types of Narratives in Speaking & Writing
Research Sources
Writing
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| Letter Writing
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- Home Journals
- Thank You Letters
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- parts of a letter
- written conversations that are interesting and
descriptive of feelings and events
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| Note Taking
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- transcribing from the board
- viewing & notetaking
- reading & point form notes
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Notebook Maintenance |
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Creative Writing
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Expository Writing
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speed & fluency
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Monologue
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Historical Fiction role playing
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Personal Use Writing
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- Agenda
- Cue cards for presentations
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| Publications
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Shoe Story
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Speech
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Class Yearbook
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| Grammar |
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Reading
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| Novels
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- quantity
- variety of genres
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Reading Aloud
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- choral reading
- duet reading
- script performance
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Reading Comprehension
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Standard Resources
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dictionary
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atlas
- textbooks
- tests
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Research
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- internet sites
- locating text material within a specific book
- locating print resources in the school &
public libraries using the computer
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Forming an Opinion
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- Reader Responses
- Self-Evaluation
- Reflection Pieces
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| Skill drills |
- SRA - Reading Comprehension
- CLOZE Activities - reading Comprehension
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Oral
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| Talk About |
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| Presentations
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Presenting Information
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Entertaining an Audience
- 8 & 12 Line Poem
- Entertainment at the Feast
- Light & Sound Science Fair
- Harmonica Performances
- Speech
- Public Speaking Tour
- Junk Art Sculpture Exhibition
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| Class Participation
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| Listening Comprehension
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- Getting the Main Idea
- Mental Math Number Chains
- Quicksolve Whodunnit Puzzles
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- Listening to Talking Books & writing chapter summaries
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Listening Behaviours
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| Listening for Information |
- Classroom lessons
- Teacher instructions
- Daily announcements
- Student presentations
- Assemblies
- Interviews
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Media Presentations
- Video - viewing & note taking
- CD Music - Harmonica - listening & copying example
- CD Music Appreciation - storytelling set to classical music
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| Interviewing |
- IRP - interview an expert & record information gained
- find information for articles in yearbook
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Types of Narratives in
Writing & Speaking
Adapted
from Moffett and
McElheny
- 1st Person Interior Monologue - train of
thought or stream of consciousness
- 1st Person Dramatic Monologue - narrator
speaking to someone else; audience "overhears"
- 1st Person Letter Narration - narrator
writing a letter
- 1st Person Diary Narration - narrator
writing diary entries
- 1st Person Autobiography - narrator is
main character, often reflecting on a past "self."
- 3rd Person Eyewitness Point of View -
narrator presents story in eyewitness account; does not present
characters' thoughts
- 3rd Person Single Character Point of View
- narrator knows all about ONE character in the story; story
presented from one character's vantage point.
- 3rd Person Multiple Character Point of
View - narrator presents inner life, thoughts, actions of several
characters
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- all sources of information must be acknowledged
- information does not only come from books - there are many sources
of information
- if books are used, they should be written at the student's reading
level or else the words have no meaning
- students may not plagiarize - namely represent someone else's work
or words as their own
- printing something off from the Internet, gluing it up on paper
& handing it in, is not research
- when students write notes, they need to use their own words
- when doing a major project sources of information need to be
recorded
- for the IRP, a Bibliography needs to be completed
- click here for instructions on how to write up a
Bibliography
Notebooks, Duo-Tangs &
Texts that each student has
- Handwriting Notebook - cursive practice, timed writing drills,
rough draft of speech - mainly used in term 1
- English / Writing Notebook - used for writing exercises, grammar lessons, yearbook articles
- Guided Reading Notebook -
tracking read aloud, choral reading activities, reading comprehension
activities, guided group discussions
- Home Journal - notebook in which student writes weekly letters to
parents & parents write letters back to students. This is the only notebook
that can be decorated - i.e. doodled on
- Talking Book Notebook - notebook for chapter summaries of
Talking Books listened to
- FMTW / Yearbook Notebook - Five Minute Timed Writing - timed writing activities on topics from which
yearbook articles can be written, printing and in cursive, to determine
writing speed - w.p.m., yearbook articles and writing activities
- SSQ Duo-Tang
- Spelling Skills Quizzes - handouts for grammar & spelling skills
- Spelling Notebook - weekly spelling assignments based on text: The
Canadian Spelling Program, spelling tests
- Computer/CLOZE Duo-Tang -
tracking sheet for keyboarding, rough drafts for word processing, CLOZE
activities & reading comprehension sheets
- Text: The Canadian Spelling Program
- Reading Log Duo-Tang - Reading Record Sheet followed by 20 Novel
Summary Sheets that are completed when a student finishes reading a novel
- Novel - students are expected to have a novel in their desk at all
times to read during SQUIRT or when other work is completed
- Resources in the classroom
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Impressions Series Readers - Cross The Golden River, Run Forever
etc.
- Magic Lines - to write neatly on blank paper
- Handwriting Guides & Samples - to use until cursive writing
becomes second nature
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