Throughout the year, fourth graders learn reading skills and literary concepts focused on a variety of genres. Units include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, historical fiction, and Greek mythology. Using the workshop style, students learn focused reading skills based on a model text and then apply skills to a text of their choice at their appropriate reading level. Fourth grade uses a variety of reading partners, book clubs, and reader’s theater to engage students in the love of reading.
Textbook: Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teaching Reading
Reading Specialist
- Works with small groups of students who need extra support for two 30-minute sessions each week
- Reinforces decoding strategies, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills taught in class with instructional level text
- Uses a guided reading model
- Assess progress and monitors students’ instructional reading level three times per year using Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System; communicate growth & goals to parents
Textbooks: Reinforce Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teaching Reading curriculum
Novels: Use a variety of novels based on students’ Fountas & Pinnell instructional reading level. For example, Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary and Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan.