Grade 4 ELA Florida standards Standards

K-12 ELA Expectations

Vocabulary

Communication

Reading

Foundational Skills

Communicating Through Writing

Demonstrate legible cursive writing skills.

Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events and demonstrating an effective use of techniques such as descriptions and transitional words and phrases.

Write to make a claim supporting a perspective with logical reasons, using evidence from multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.

Write expository texts about a topic, using multiple sources, elaboration, and an organizational structure with transitions.

Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, with guidance and support from adults and feedback from peers.

Communicating Orally

Present information orally, in a logical sequence, using nonverbal cues, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Following Conventions

Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

Researching Researching and Using Information

Conduct research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic, using multiple valid sources.

Creating and Collaborating

Arrange multimedia elements to create emphasis in oral or written tasks.

Use digital writing tools individually or collaboratively to plan, draft, and revise writing.

Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills

Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.

Apply knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and write unfamiliar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in and out of context.

Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.

Reading Prose and Poetry

Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.

Explain a stated or implied theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.

Identify the narrator's point of view and explain the difference between a narrator's point of view and character perspective in a literary text.

Explain how rhyme and structure create meaning in a poem.

Reading Informational Text

Explain how text features contribute to the meaning and identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, and description in texts.

Explain how relevant details support the central idea, implied or explicit.

Explain an author's perspective toward a topic in an informational text.

Explain an author's claim and the reasons and evidence used to support the claim.

Reading Across Genres

Explain how figurative language contributes to meaning in text(s).

Summarize a text to enhance comprehension.

Include plot and theme for a literary text.

Include the central idea and relevant details for an informational text.

Compare and contrast accounts of the same event using primary and/or secondary sources.

Finding Meaning

Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing.

Apply knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, base words, and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in grade-level content.

Use context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning and unknown words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.

Cite evidence to explain and justify reasoning.

Read and comprehend grade-level complex texts proficiently.

Make inferences to support comprehension.

Use appropriate collaborative techniques and active listening skills when engaging in discussions in a variety of situations.

Use the accepted rules governing a specific format to create quality work.

Use appropriate voice and tone when speaking or writing.

Finding Meaning

Vocabulary

Reading Across Genres

Reading Informational Text

Reading Prose and Poetry

Reading

Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills

Foundational Skills

Creating and Collaborating

Researching

Following Conventions

Communicating Orally

Communicating Through Writing

Communication

Write cursive letters.

Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events, appropriate details, transitional words and an ending.

Write a claim about a topic using evidence from a source with transitions.

Write an expository text about a topic, using a source, providing an introduction, facts and a conclusion with transitions.

Improve writing as needed by planning, revising and editing, with guidance, support and modeling from adults and feedback from peers.

Express information in a logical sequence, using nonverbal cues, using the students mode of communication.

Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling. Identify and use prepositions and prepositional phrases. Maintain consistent verb tense within a paragraph.

Participate in research to answer a question, organizing information about the topic, using provided valid sources.

Use one or more multimedia elements to create emphasis in oral or written tasks.

Use digital writing tools individually or collaboratively to draft and revise writing with support from adults.

Apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read and form familiar single-syllable and multisyllabic words in context.

Read grade-level texts, at the student’s ability level, with accuracy and expression using the student’s mode of communication.

Show how setting, events, conflict and character development relate to the plot in a literary text.

Identify a stated theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.

Identify the narrators point of view and character perspective in a literary text.

Identify repeated words, rhyme or phrases that create meaning in a poem.

Identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, description and how they contribute meaning in texts.

Identify relevant details that support an explicit central idea.

Explain an author's perspective toward a topic in an informational text.

Identify an author's claim by selecting evidence and a reason used to support the claim.

Identify examples of when figurative language is used to contribute to meaning in text(s).

Identify the plot and theme for a literary text using the student's mode of communication.

Identify the central idea and relevant details for an informational text using the student's mode of communication.

Compare a primary and secondary source on the same event.

Identify and use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in communication, using the student's mode of communication.

Identify and use common Greek and Latin roots, base words, and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in grade-level content at the student’s ability level.

Identify and use picture clues, context clues, word relationships, reference materials and/or background knowledge to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning and unknown words and phrases in appropriate to grade-level content at the student’s ability level with guidance and support.

Cite evidence to explain and justify reasoning.

Read and comprehend grade-level complex texts proficiently.

Make inferences to support comprehension.

Use appropriate collaborative techniques and active listening skills when engaging in discussions in a variety of situations.

Use the accepted rules governing a specific format to create quality work.

Use appropriate voice and tone when speaking or writing.