Grade: 4th

Subjects: English Language Arts

  & Social Studies

Email: delarkr@boe.richmond.k12.ga.us

School Phone: 706-796-4944

In 4th Grade ELA, students will continue working toward mastery of the following skills:

• Reading and writing in opinion, narrative, and informational genres
• Using various story elements, such as dialogue and setting, to determine theme
• Identifying main idea and supporting details to  build comprehension
• Building vocabulary by using a variety of methods to determine the meaning of unknown words
• Paraphrasing and summarizing a text
• Developing good speaking and listening skills

In 4th Grade Social Studies, students will continue with your study of United States history integrating all four strands:

• history (French and Indian War through the Reconstruction period)
• geography (influence of geography on U.S. history through these same periods of history)
• civics/government (concepts and rights contained within our founding documents)
• economics (apply material from history strand to deepen understanding of economic concepts)