What Fourth Grade Eagle Students Should Know

Reading
The student…
- Predicts using prior knowledge, captions, and headings
- uses strategies to determine the meaning and increase vocabulary (ex., multiple meaning words, antonyms, root words)
- develops vocabulary, monitors reading on or above grade level by rereading, self-correcting, summarizing & questioning
- identifies main idea, details, makes inferences and identifies the sequence of events, author’s purpose, examples of fact, fiction or opinion, and recognizes and understands comparison and contrast, cause/effect & sequence of events
Writing
The student…
- scores 3.5 or above on the Florida Writes exam
- writes using the writing process and the six writing traits of ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions.
Mathematics
The student…
- uses number sense to masters all basic facts, read, write, compare, and identify whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers and decimals to the hundredths
- locates numbers on the number line, and identifies equivalent and non-equivalent forms of numbers
- uses estimation to solve problems and determines the operations needed to solve one-step and two-step problems
- knows factors and multiples of numbers to 100
- uses measurement to measure length, area, volume, and perimeter
- knows time intervals and common angle measures, and uses schedules, calendars and elapsed time to solve problems
- compares length, weight, and capacity using standard and non-standard units
- solves problems with estimated length, width, time, temperature and money
- estimates the area and perimeter of a polygon and the volume of a rectangular prism
- uses geometry and spatial sense to describe the attributes of two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures
- performs flips, slides, 90 and 180 degree turns and tessellations
- knows how area and perimeter are affected when geometric figures are combined
- knows how to identify, locate and plot ordered pairs of whole numbers
- uses algebraic thinking to describe and creates numerical and geometric patterns, and analyzes number patterns
- solves problems with equations or inequalities using models or graphs
- uses data analysis and probability to choose a title, labels and interprets information on a graph
- interprets and completes circle graphs using common fractions
- identifies the mean, median, mode and range
- records the possible outcomes of an experiment using common fractions
- determines the statistical measures for data and explains the results
Social Studies
The student…
- studies Florida History from pre-historic times to the present.
Science
The student…
- investigates several science units using scientific observations and skills. explores different science topics including life science, earth science, physical science, and space & technology.