RSU 5 Standards and Performance Indicators
Grade 4
Habits of Work
Respect
- Respect: respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Preparedness
- Preparedness: timeliness, organization, homework completion
Engagement
- Engagement: participation, interpersonal involvement, group-work
Determination
- Determination: ability to self-assess; persistence, effective use of feedback
Reading
Foundational Skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Knows and applies grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Uses context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Fluency
- Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Writing Production
- Handwrites with appropriate alignment and size, form, neatness and spacing.
- Applies keyboarding skills to produce work.
Spelling
- Demonstrates use of suffixes and prefixes and how they change a base word.
Narrative Reading
Literal Comprehension
- Summarizes the parts of the story that relate to what is read.
- Summarize a book in a way that shows knowledge of the important aspects of the story, including the story elements.
- Identifies the characters—their traits and wants— and recaps important events using sequence and cause-effect words or uses a problem-solution structure.
- Identifies and can discuss the big ideas/themes that the story teaches.
Interpretive Reading
- Understands that theme applies to most of the story, and provides evidence of the theme across the whole text.
- Identifies characters' complexities, notices how characters change, and compares and contrasts various aspects of the story.
- Supports thinking with exact details and examples from the text(s).
Analytic Reading
- Reads and chooses to let the story reading spark ideas. Those ideas might be about the world, other people, a topic read about, or the story itself.
- Develops ideas by paying attention to the text.
- Uses ideas as a lens for rethinking or rereading.
Informational Reading
Literal Comprehension
- Summarize as a way to hold onto new learning, says the main idea(s) of that part and links it/ them to related points.
- Selects points that are especially important to the idea.
- Uses the primary structure(s) in the text to grasp what it teaches (e.g., if it is organized as a main idea or supporting points or a claim and reasons, he can use either structure to help himself determine importance and select supporting details).
- keeps own opinion separate from the ideas presented in the text.
Interpretive Reading
- Collects and merges information and ideas from several texts in a way that makes a new organization for the combined information.
- Identifies similarities and differences in how information on a topic is treated across different texts, including craft techniques used, focus, and perspective.
- Identifies primary vs. secondary sources.
Analytic Reading
- Develops own ideas about what is read. Those ideas might be about values, the world, or the book.
- Ideas are grounded in text-based information and ideas, and draw on several parts of the text(s).
- Raises questions and larger theories about the topic or the world during reading and rereads with those questions in mind, leading to new insights.
- Thinks and writes things like “Is this always the case?” or “Could it be . . . ?” The reader is not afraid to think in new ways.
Writing
Narrative Writing
Structure
- Writing is organized according to purpose using techniques such as leads, transitions, introductions and conclusions
Development
- Elaborates with details, reasons and examples.
- Demonstrates age appropriate elements of craft such as word choice, dialogue, and feelings
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Informational Writing
Structure
- Writing teaches readers different things about a subject, groups information into sections, uses paragraphs and sometimes chapters to separate sections. Each section had information that was mostly about the same thing.
- Uses headings and subheadings.
Development
- Writing is organized, uses compare/contrast, cause/effect, or pro/con.
- Writing includes diagrams, charts, headings, bold words, and definition boxes to help teach readers
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Opinion Writing
Structure
- Writing includes a claim about a topic or a text and tries to support reasons.
- Writing is separated into sections of information using \paragraphs.
Development
- Writing includes reasons to support an opinion to convince the reader.
- Writing includes examples and information to support reasons, perhaps from a text, prior knowledge, or life.
Conventions
- Applies spelling and punctuation in written work
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
- Engages effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, builds on others' ideas and expresses their own clearly.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Reports on a topic or text, tells a story, or recounts an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speaks clearly at an understandable pace.
- Creates audio recordings and visual displays presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
- Differentiates between contexts that call for formal English and situations where informal discourse is appropriate; uses formal English when appropriate to task and situation
Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Uses the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems
- Identifies factors and multiples within 100
- Generates and analyzes patterns
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Uses place value and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Numbers and Operations - Fractions
- Extends understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering
- Builds fractions from unit fractions by applying understandings of operations of whole numbers
- Understands decimal notation for fractions and compare decimal fractions
Measurement and Data
- Solves problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements
- Represents and interprets data
- Understands concepts of angles and measures angles
Geometry
- Draws and identifies lines and angles
- Classifies shapes by their properties
Communication and Reasoning
- Demonstrates Standards for Mathematical Practices
Science
Demonstrates Understanding of Science Content
Demonstrates Scientific Practices
Social Studies
Demonstrates understanding of social studies content
Applies social studies processes, knowledge and skills
Music
- Singing
- Playing Instruments
- Reading music
- Listening
Physical Education
- Participates in physical fitness activities
- Demonstrates a variety of sports skills
- Demonstrates cooperative skills during physical activities.
Art
- Demonstrates understanding of art concepts
- Demonstrates creative problem solving
- Demonstrates art skills
Technology
- Demonstrates understanding of concepts taught