Grade 4 Trimester 3 ELA/Science/Social Studies Benchmarks Insufficient Progress. Progressing Towards the Standard. Standard

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1 Grade 4 Trimester 3 ELA/Science/Social Studies Benchmarks Insufficient Progress Progressing Towards the Standard Meeting the Standard* Student rarely meets expectations for this trimester. Student sometimes meets the expectations for this trimester. Phonics & Word Recognition Applies grade level phonics and word analysis skills to decode words in print Uses combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns and morphology (e.g. roots and affixes) to accurately read unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. Fluency Reads grade level texts orally with accuracy and appropriate phrasing, rate and expression Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding, reads gradelevel text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression on successive readings, and uses context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary Reading Comprehension Identifies key ideas and details in literature and informational text Refers to details and examples in literature and informational texts when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences Determines a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text and summarizes the text Describes in depth a character, setting or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. Explains events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why based on specific information from the text. Uses craft and structure to understand literature and informational text Determines the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters in mythology Exceeding the Standard Student exceeds the end of year grade level standards.

2 Explains major differences between poems, drama and prose, and refers to the structural elements of poems and drama when writing or speaking about a text. Compares and contrasts the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first and third person narrations Determines the meaning of general academic and domain specific words and phrases in a text relevant to grade 4 topics or subject areas for trimester 3. Describes the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison) of events, ideas, concepts or information in a text or part of a text. Compares and contrasts a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic, describes the differences in focus and the information provided Integrates knowledge and ideas from text to support understanding Makes connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text Locates and analyzes examples of similes and metaphors in stories, poems, folktales, and plays, and explains how these literary devices enrich the text. Compares and contrasts the treatment of similar themes and topics. Interprets information presented visually, orally and quantitatively and explains how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears. Explains how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text and integrates information from two texts on the topic in order to write or speak about the subject Reads texts of appropriate complexity across genres Reads and comprehends literature and informational texts in the grade 4-5 text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

3 Writing Composes opinion pieces, supporting a point of view with reasons and information Writes an opinion piece in which they introduce the topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons supporting the opinion with facts and details, and provide a concluding statement or section, demonstrating clear idea development, organization, sentence fluency, word choice and voice Composes informative/explanatory texts, conveying ideas and information clearly Writes an informative/explanatory piece in which they introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and/or sections, develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations or other information and examples, use precise language and domainspecific vocabulary to inform or explain the topic, and provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented, demonstrating clear idea development, organization, sentence fluency, word choice and voice Composes narrative writing using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences Composes a narrative piece in which they orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters, organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, uses dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations, uses a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events, uses concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely, and provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events, demonstrating clear idea development, organization, sentence fluency, word choice and voice. Language Demonstrates grade level command of the conventions related to English grammar and usage

4 Grade 4 Trimester 3 Math Benchmarks Uses relative pronouns and relative adverbs, forms and uses progressive verb tenses, uses modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions, orders adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns, and forms and uses prepositional phrases when writing or speaking, produces complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons, and correctly uses frequently confused words when writing or speaking (i.e., to, too, two) Demonstrates grade level command of the conventions related to capitalization, punctuation and spelling Uses correct capitalization and spells grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed, uses commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text, and uses a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence Science Demonstrates understanding of scientific concepts Answers in writing and/or orally teacher directed questions about scientific concepts taught. Accurately explains concepts in their own words using facts and vocabulary that are related to a particular topic. Social Studies Demonstrates understanding of concepts in social studies Answers in writing and/or orally teacher directed questions about social studies concepts taught. Accurately explains concepts in their own words using facts and vocabulary that are related to a particular topic. Insufficient Progress Progressing Toward the Standard Meeting the Standard* Exceeds the Standard Operations and Algebraic Thinking

5 Student rarely meets the expectations for this trimester Student sometimes meets the expectations for this trimester Understands factors and multiples Finds factors of numbers in the range and identifies prime and composite numbers in this range. Recognizes that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors and determines whether a given whole number in the range of is a multiple of a given one-digit number Generates and analyzes patterns Generates a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule and identifies apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. Solves word problems involving the four operations Interprets a multiplication equation as a comparison, represents verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations, multiplies or divides to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison, solves multi-step word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted, represents these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity, and assesses the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding. Student exceeds the grade level standards. Numbers and Operations in Base Ten Demonstrates understanding of place value of multi-digit whole numbers Recognizes that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right, reads and writes multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form, compares two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons, and use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

6 Uses knowledge of place value to perform multi-digit addition and subtraction Adds and subtracts multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000, using the standard algorithm Uses knowledge of place value to perform multi-digit multiplication and division Multiplies a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number and multiplies two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations, and illustrates and explains the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays and/or area Finds whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors Knows basic multiplication facts, 0 to 12 Knows multiplication facts, 0-12, with 90% accuracy (4 seconds per fact) Knows basic division facts, 0-12 Knows division facts, 0-12, with 90% accuracy (4 seconds per fact) Fractions Demonstrates an understanding of equivalent fractions and ordering fractions Demonstrates an understanding of adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers and applies this to word problems Uses and understanding of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number and applies this to word problems Understands the relationship between fractions and decimals Measurement and Data Solves problems involving measurement and conversions of measurement

7 Applies the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real-world and mathematical problems Converts measurement units within one system of units, including linear, weight, time and money to solve word problems using said measurements Represents and interprets data Makes a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit and solves problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots. Understands the concepts of angles and measure angles Recognizes angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understands concepts of angle measurement. Measures and sketches angles in whole number degrees using a protractor. Recognizes angle measures as additive. Solves addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems by using an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure. Geometry Draws and identifies lines and angles and classifies shapes by properties of their lines and angles Draws points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines and identifies these in twodimensional figures most of the time. Classifies two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognizes right triangles as a category, and identifies right triangles. Recognizes and draws a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure.

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