North Dakota State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 4

ND.4.1. Research: Students engage in the research process.

4.1.1. Planning Research: Organize a research topic or issue in a specific area of study using a research strategy.

4.1.2. Accessing Information: Use relevant resource materials to access information; e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, videos, interview, cassette recordings, and Internet.

4.1.3. Evaluating Research Information: Use criteria to evaluate the accuracy of information; e.g., factual vs. fictional text.

4.1.4. Organizing Research Information: Use note-taking strategies to organize information.

4.1.5. Organizing Research Information: Compose basic research reports or presentations.

4.1.6. Presentation and Evaluation: Assess research process and presentation using information discussed in peer and/or teacher conferences.

4.1.7. Presentation and Evaluation: Evaluate a research process and presentation using a rubric based on certain criteria.

ND.4.2. Reading: Students engage in the reading process.

4.2.1. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Read a variety of texts; i.e., fiction, nonfiction, multi-cultural.

4.2.2. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements Compare and contrast characteristics of fiction; i.e., historical fiction, realistic fiction, short stories, poetry, tall tales.

4.2.3. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Compare and contrast texts; i.e., fiction to fiction, fiction to nonfiction, nonfiction to nonfiction.

4.2.4. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Determine the elements of a fiction text; i.e., setting, characters, development, rising action, events, problems, resolution/solution.

4.2.5. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Determine characteristics of non-fiction text; i.e., headings, subheadings, captions, graphics, tables, and conventions of print.

4.2.6. Word Recognition/Vocabulary: Use word recognition strategies to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and make sense of text; i.e., synonyms/antonyms, homonyms, prefixes/suffixes, words with multiple meanings, context clues.

4.2.7. Word Recognition/Vocabulary: Use reference resources to determine word meaning; i.e., dictionary, glossary, thesaurus.

4.2.8. Reading Strategies for Meaning: Use a variety of text comprehension strategies to improve and monitor understanding; i.e., building background with connections, main idea/details, fact/opinion, predicting, inferring, questioning, synthesizing, summarizing, analyzing, visualizing/verbalizing.

4.2.9. Reading Strategies for Meaning: Demonstrate fluency, reading in meaningful phrases: clear, at an appropriate rate, with expression and accuracy.

4.2.10. Purposes for Reading: Use reading to be informed, entertained, and persuaded; e.g., role-playing, journals, diaries.

4.2.11. Purposes for Reading: Reflect on and respond to texts from various genres and cultures.

ND.4.3. Writing: Students engage in the writing process.

4.3.1. Prewriting: Determine a message to inform, entertain, persuade a specific audience; i.e., factual and personal persuasive, informational, poetry, fantasy.

4.3.2. Prewriting: Demonstrate planning ideas to organize thoughts before writing; e.g., webbing, listing, graphic organizers, taking notes.

4.3.3. Drafting: Use characteristics of different genres of writing; i.e., factual and personal persuasive, informational, poetry, fantasy.

4.3.4. Drafting: Organize and develop ideas by writing at least three paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details.

4.3.5. Drafting: Use indentation, capitalization, and punctuation to write a paragraph.

4.3.6. Drafting: Incorporate vocabulary in writing.

4.3.7. Revising: Review and monitor a written piece for organization, elaboration, description, clarity, and syntax to improve fluency and meaning.

4.3.8. Revising: Revise written text based on feedback from peers and/or teacher conferences.

4.3.9. Editing: Use proofreading marks to edit written text for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraph indentation.

4.3.10. Editing: Use reference tools to edit writing; e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, word wall, classroom library, and word processor.

4.3.11. Final Draft: Compose written text that demonstrates understanding of purpose and audience using a specific genre of writing; i.e., fantasy, factual and personal persuasive, poetry, informational.

4.3.12. Publication/Presentation: Share final copy with peers, teachers, and/or family members.

4.3.13. Publication/Presentation: Evaluate writing process/product using a variety of assessment tools; e.g., checklist, rubric, conferences.

ND.4.4. Speaking and Listening: Students engage in the speaking and listening process.

4.4.1. Planning for an Audience/Purpose: Organize oral presentations to inform, demonstrate, entertain, or persuade from an organized plan; i.e., factual and personal persuasive, informational, poetry.

4.4.2. Planning for an Audience/Purpose: Develop a presentation to inform, demonstrate, persuade, or entertain; i.e., factual and personal persuasive, informational, poetry.

4.4.3. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Demonstrate appropriate speaking vocabulary.

4.4.4. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Use pitch, volume, and tone appropriate to the speaking situation.

4.4.5. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Use body language, such as posture or the use of gestures, as a form of communication.

4.4.6. Conversation, Group Discussion, and Oral Presentation: Participate as an active listener and speaker in group discussions.

ND.4.5. Media: Students understand media.

4.5.1. Media Genres: Recognize existing and developing media.

4.5.2. Media Genres: Describe characteristics of common types of media; e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, cartoons, radio, television, films, electronic sources.

4.5.3. Using Media for a Purpose: Construct samples of different media genres to inform, entertain, advertise, or persuade an audience.

4.5.4. Using Media for a Purpose: Evaluate media products produced by peers and self using a rubric.

4.5.5. Interpreting Media: Analyze media content for meaning; i.e., main idea, supporting details, fact and opinion, propaganda, and persuasion.

4.5.6. Interpreting Media: Describe media production techniques and formats; e.g., images and symbols, basic propaganda and persuasion, poster, slide.

ND.4.6. Language: Students understand and use principles of language.

4.6.1. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use parts of speech; i.e., regular and irregular verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions.

4.6.2. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use subjects and predicates in simple and compound sentences.

4.6.3. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use appropriate verb tenses.

4.6.4. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use capitalization; e.g., proper nouns, titles of books, magazines, newspapers, musical compositions.

4.6.5. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use conventions of punctuation; i.e., ending punctuation, commas - with a conjunction and contractions, apostrophes in the possessive, underlining, quotation marks, italics for titles of documents, parentheses.

4.6.6. Language Conventions/Mechanics: Use principles of spelling; e.g., double final consonant following short vowel, roots, suffixes, prefixes.

4.6.7. Figurative Language: Use and interpret the meaning of similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idioms.