Welcome Parents!

Groveland Elementary School

Getting Ready for 4th Grade

Here is our goal:

• Give you ideas for preventing summer slide

• Go over all the BIG skills your incoming 4th grader should have

• Provide you with resources to help you get reading for 4th grade

Useful info…ask your child’s teacher for a flyer !

Reading• Weekly reading test

Common Core • New Additions:

– Roots from Greek Mythology– 1st and 3rd Person Point of View– Explain events in all genres of text

(historical, directions, scientific , technical)

– Compare and Contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of events

– Provide evidence the author gives to prove themselves

– Effectively engage in collaborative discussion (coming prepared, studying, taking notes and sharing ideas.

– Know when to use formal and informal English

– Greek and Latin roots– Idioms, Adages, Proverbs

• Small group instruction based on needs of students

• Centers to support literacy and provide independent practice

• Differentiated Instruction based on Needs

• Grades are weighted by assignment:

• Summative Finals 50%,• Participations 20%• Midpoints 30%

Take a look at these question stems we will be using!

To prevent Summer Slide

• Read each night with your child

• Have your child start independently reading chapter books

• Go to the library

• As you go out have your child read menus, articles, magazine, or newspapers.

• Use Question stems

Accelerated Reader

• Average percent correct + GOAL will count as a test grade each grading period

• Set reading goals for each studentbased on STAR Reading Test.

• Should spend a minimum of 20 minutes each night reading (before bed is a great time)

• AR rewards in classroom and school wide

Spelling/Word Study

• Homework counts as 20% of spelling grade

• Words are introduced on Monday

• Spelling is one of the fundamental sub-skills of effective written communication.

English

• Quizzes per skill• Review daily (class work daily)• Some new additions: • Cursive Skills will be implemented• Relative Pronouns and Adverbs• Modal Axillaries (can, may,must)

How to prevent Summer Slide:

• K12 Reader – is a great resource• http://

www.k12reader.com/adverbs/Adverb12_Identifying_Adverbs.pdf

• Keep spelling and correcting grammar.

• http://www.k12reader.com/spelling/Fourth-Grade-Master-Spelling-Lists.pdf

• Social Media post correcting

Document Based Questions• What is a DBQ?

– Research primary and secondary resources– Discuss and collaborate– Form an opinion– Write an essay documenting your research

• 4 times a year• Reading/Social Studies/Lang Arts grades

are taken from this assignment• Example topics discussed:

– What is Harriet Tubman’s Greatest Achievement?

– What Caused the Dust Bowl? – How were the Native Americans different? – How much is a million?

Math • Weekly math test on

Common Core • Each student is

expected to know all their Multiplication and Division Facts to 12.

• New Additions: – Multiplication comparisons– Determine true or false statements

about equations – Comparative relational thinking – Prime and Composite – Adding and Subtracting Fractions – Multiply fractions with a whole number – Use a protractor to measure angles– Add Angles – Decimals

• Small group instruction based on needs of students

• Centers to support skills and provide independent practice

• Differentiated Instruction based on Needs

• Grades are weighted by assignment:

• Summative Finals 50%,• Participations 20%• Midpoints 30%

Take a look at a sample question!

How to prevent Summer Slide:

• Addition facts (single and double)• Subtraction facts (with regrouping

across zeroes) • Multiplication Facts (1-12)• Division Facts (1-12)• Word problems, show your work. • http://www.commoncoresheets.com

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Fourth Grade Florida History

• All across Florida, fourth graders learn about Florida History.

• St. Augustine Trip• Projects based on

Floridian: animals, plants, economics, effects of war and colonization

• Quiz:• Who discovered

Florida? • What is the oldest

city? • Which countries

fought to colonized Florida?

• What does Florida mean?

In Closing…

• Remember, you are your child’s first teacher

• And we will remember this: