| Fourth Grade | Reading Course Map |
| August | Genres- Use Various Genres throughout the school year to teach
skills. Elements of Stories (judgment and inference of plot, character, setting, speaker) |
| September | Author's Intent; Compare/Contrast; Vocabulary Development (context
clues, homophones, antonyms, synonyms, multiple meanings, root words,
prefixes); Introduce Fact/Opinion
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| October | Theme; Main Idea/ Details; Conclusions/Predictions and Foreshadowing
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| November | Inferring (locate facts); Figurative Language (similes,
personification, metaphors, sensory details, idioms); Puns, Jokes,
Palindromes (playful use of language)
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| December | Organizational Structures (chronological order, cause/effect)
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| January | Textual Features (paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences,
glossary); Graphic Features (charts, maps, diagrams, illustrations)
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| February | Fact/Opinion; prediction; foreshadowing
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| March | Role of Media (propaganda)
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| April | Review
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| May | Acceleration for Fifth Grade
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