September Objectives

Reading
-Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth grade informational and functional reading materials
    -Determining sequence of events in informational and functional text
    -Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational text
    -Previewing to anticipate content
-Identify literary elements and devices, including characters, important details, and similes, in recreational reading materials, and details in informational reading materials
    -Identifying author's purpose
    -Identifying main idea
-Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge, including recognition of a variety of synonyms and antonyms
    -Using context clues
-Demonstrate word recognition skills, including structural analysis
-Use a wide range of strategies, including distinguishing fiction from nonfiction and making inferences, to comprehend fourth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres    
    -Drawing conclusions to determine content not directly stated

Language
-Compose descriptive texts using an introductory paragraph, sensory details, vivid language, and a conclusion.
    -Demonstrating usage of graphic organizers during prewriting
    -Composing narrative texts using a definite time frame, selected tone, and a clear sequence of events
    -Correcting sentence fragments and run-on sentences in writing
    -Demonstrating the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
    -Demonstrating clarity and organization in a composition
-Organize information on a specific topic obtained from grade-appropriate reference materials (i.e. dictionary and glossary)
-Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of business and friendly letter parts and envelope addresses and use of punctuation, including apostrophe with contractions; underlining or italicizing of book titles; and commas to separate items in a series and in a physical address
    -Using commas correctly in a compound sentence

Math
-Demonstrate number sense by comparing and ordering decimals to hundredths and whole numbers to 999, 999
    -Identifying a number when given a pictorial representation of tenths and hundredths or groups of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands
    -Writing a number in expanded notation through hundred-thousands
    -Determining the place value of a digit in a whole number through the hundred-thousands and in a decimal to the hundredths
-Write money amounts in words and dollar-and-cent notation
    -Identifying equivalent units of money

Social Studies
-Identify historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps
    -Discussing patterns and types of migrations as they affect the environment, agriculture, economic development, and population changes in Alabama
-Describe the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the twentieth century
    -Describing how technological advancements brought change to Alabamians during the twentieth century
    -Describing the growing influence of foreign-based companies

Science
-Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps
-Describe the interdependence of plants and animals
    -Describing behaviors and body structures that help animals survive in particular environments
    -Describing life cycles of various animals to include incomplete and complete metamorphosis
    -Tracing the flow of energy through a food chain
    -Identifying characteristics of organisms, including growth and development, reproduction, acquisition and use of energy, and response to the environment