4th Grade ELA (Missouri Learning Standards)

Reading (R) – big idea 1

• 4.R.1.A.a Draws conclusions and inferences backed by what the text says.
• 4.R.1.A.b Draws conclusions backed by what the text states directly.
• 4.R.1.A.c Notices when understanding breaks down and fixes it.
• 4.R.1.B.a Works out academic words from Latin, Greek, or other roots and their affixes.
• 4.R.1.B.b Uses sentence context to work out unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.
• 4.R.1.B.c Completes analogies.
• 4.R.1.B.d Identifies what common idioms and figurative language mean.
• 4.R.1.B.e Uses a dictionary or glossary for meanings, syllables, and pronunciation.
• 4.R.1.B.f Uses conversational, academic, and subject words and phrases.
• 4.R.1.C.a Compares and contrasts ideas across fiction and nonfiction texts.
• 4.R.1.C.b Connects texts to the world, seeing that literature reflects its culture and time.
• 4.R.1.D.a Reads suitable texts independently for sustained periods.
• 4.R.1.D.b Shows evidence of independent reading.

Reading (R) – big idea 2

• 4.R.2.A.a Summarizes and orders the plot, explains how earlier events affect later ones, and names the theme.
• 4.R.2.A.b Describes characters' personalities from their thoughts, words, and actions.
• 4.R.2.A.c Describes how characters interact and how relationships change.
• 4.R.2.A.d Compares characters' adventures and roles.
• 4.R.2.A.e Compares points of view and tells whether the narrator is first or third person.
• 4.R.2.B.a Explains structural elements of poetry.
• 4.R.2.C.a Analyzes how characters change from start to end of a play or film.
• 4.R.2.C.b Explains structural elements of drama.

Reading (R) – big idea 3

• 4.R.3.A.a Uses several text features to find information and get an overview.
• 4.R.3.A.b Describes the order of events, ideas, or steps in a procedure.
• 4.R.3.A.c Interprets and explains facts shown in graphics.
• 4.R.3.B.a Compares events and experiences in a fictional work with the author's real life as told in a biography or autobiography.
• 4.R.3.B.b Analyzes persuasive texts and uses evidence to explain the author's purpose.
• 4.R.3.B.c Explains how an author uses language to sway what readers think or do.
• 4.R.3.C.a Tells fact from opinion and explains how to check a fact.
• 4.R.3.C.b Explains stated and implied links between ideas in texts.
• 4.R.3.C.c Explains the author's purpose.
• 4.R.3.C.d Compares firsthand and secondhand accounts of one event or topic.

Reading (R) – big idea 4

• 4.R.4.A.a Explains good and bad effects of advertising techniques on what people buy.
• 4.R.4.A.b Explains how design choices in media shape the message.
• 4.R.4.A.c Compares written conventions used in digital media.
• 4.R.4.A.d Explains how a web page's structures and graphics help readers understand it.

Reading Foundations (RF) – big idea 3

• 4.RF.3.A.a Decodes unfamiliar longer words in context using letter sounds, syllables, and word parts.
• 4.RF.3.A.b Reads roots, prefixes, suffixes, and key subject words.

Reading Foundations (RF) – big idea 4

• 4.RF.4.A.a Reads suitable texts fluently and uses context to confirm or correct words, rereading as needed.

Writing (W) – big idea 1

• 4.W.1.A.a Chooses a genre that fits the purpose and audience.
• 4.W.1.A.b Writes questions about the topic.
• 4.W.1.A.c Uses or builds background knowledge on the topic.
• 4.W.1.A.d Uses a prewriting strategy.
• 4.W.1.B.a Drafts a main idea for several paragraphs with varied sentences, including compound ones.
• 4.W.1.B.b States and supports a main idea with a topic sentence early in the first paragraph.
• 4.W.1.B.c Sorts and orders facts, details, or events into introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.
• 4.W.1.B.d Writes for a suitable audience.
• 4.W.1.C.a With help, revises main idea, order, focus, details, word choice, sentences, transitions, audience, and voice.
• 4.W.1.C.b With help, edits for language conventions.
• 4.W.1.D.a With help, uses technology and the internet to produce and publish writing.
• 4.W.1.D.b Types at least one page, ideally in one sitting.

Writing (W) – big idea 2

• 4.W.2.A.a Writes an opinion piece with an introductory paragraph.
• 4.W.2.A.b States an opinion or position with reasons backed by facts and details.
• 4.W.2.A.c Uses specific, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.
• 4.W.2.A.d Uses own words except when quoting a source.
• 4.W.2.A.e Names the author or source of facts used.
• 4.W.2.A.f Uses transitions to link opinion and reasons.
• 4.W.2.A.g Organizes reasons into introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.
• 4.W.2.B.a Writes an informative piece that opens with a topic sentence.
• 4.W.2.B.b Develops body paragraphs from sources with facts, details, examples, and quotations.
• 4.W.2.B.c Uses specific, relevant, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.
• 4.W.2.B.d Uses own words except when quoting a source.
• 4.W.2.B.e Uses transitions to link categories of information.
• 4.W.2.B.f Uses text structures where helpful.
• 4.W.2.B.g Ends with a concluding paragraph about the information.
• 4.W.2.C.a Writes a narrative or poem that sets the scene and introduces a narrator or characters.
• 4.W.2.C.b Uses dialogue, motives, and description.
• 4.W.2.C.c Organizes events that unfold naturally with a beginning, middle, and end.
• 4.W.2.C.d Uses a range of transitions to manage the order of events.
• 4.W.2.C.e Uses specific, relevant, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.

Writing (W) – big idea 3

• 4.W.3.A.a Lists suitable research topics.
• 4.W.3.A.b Writes a research question about a chosen topic.
• 4.W.3.A.c Identifies a range of relevant literary and informational sources.
• 4.W.3.A.d Uses features of print and digital sources to find information quickly.
• 4.W.3.A.e Turns graphic or visual data into written notes.
• 4.W.3.A.f Checks whether information found is accurate.
• 4.W.3.A.g Tells paraphrasing apart from plagiarism.
• 4.W.3.A.h Records source details in a standard format.
• 4.W.3.A.i Judges how fully and accurately the research question was answered against agreed criteria.

Language (L) – big idea 1

• 4.L.1.A.a Uses forms of be as helping verbs with -ing verbs.
• 4.L.1.A.b Puts adjectives in the usual order.
• 4.L.1.A.c Uses progressive verbs for past, present, and future.
• 4.L.1.A.d Uses adverbs in writing.
• 4.L.1.A.e Makes verbs agree with first-, second-, and third-person pronouns.
• 4.L.1.A.f Uses prepositions correctly.
• 4.L.1.A.g Tells coordinating and subordinating conjunctions apart and uses both.
• 4.L.1.A.h Writes and expands simple and compound sentences of all four kinds.
• 4.L.1.A.i Fixes sentence fragments and run-ons.
• 4.L.1.B.a Writes legibly.
• 4.L.1.B.b Punctuates dialogue between characters.
• 4.L.1.B.c Puts a comma before a coordinating conjunction that joins two independent clauses.
• 4.L.1.B.d Capitalizes proper adjectives.
• 4.L.1.B.e Uses capital letters correctly.
• 4.L.1.B.f Spells words with suffixes by keeping or dropping final e.
• 4.L.1.B.g Spells words that end in a long e sound.
• 4.L.1.B.h Puts reference sources in alphabetical order.
• 4.L.1.B.i Uses letter sounds, syllables, and word parts to read and spell unfamiliar longer words.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 1

• 4.SL.1.A.a Follows, makes, and explains classroom listening rules.
• 4.SL.1.A.b Asks and answers specific questions, adds useful comments, and links to others' remarks.
• 4.SL.1.A.c Follows and restates short multi-step instructions.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 2

• 4.SL.2.A.a Makes and follows active listening rules.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 3

• 4.SL.3.A.a Adds to discussion after listening to others' ideas.
• 4.SL.3.A.b Gives opinions on read-alouds and own reading and relates them to others' views.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 4

• 4.SL.4.A.a Paraphrases parts of a text read aloud or information from different media.
• 4.SL.4.A.b Uses efficient presentation skills with the resources available.
• 4.SL.4.A.c Includes descriptive and ordered details on a chosen or assigned topic.
• 4.SL.4.A.d Gives a formal presentation to the class using different media.
• 4.SL.4.A.e Speaks with expression and fluency.
• 4.SL.4.A.f Adjusts formal and informal language to the context and topic.