4th Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• 4.1.L.1 Listens actively and follows agreed rules for discussion.
• 4.1.L.2 Interprets a speaker's message and asks questions about its purpose.
• 4.1.S.1 Works respectfully in diverse groups and shares responsibility fairly.
• 4.1.S.2 Discusses reading and writing and states own ideas clearly.
• 4.1.S.3 Gives informal presentations that are organized, audible, and clear.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• 4.2.PC Writes printed and cursive words with correct spacing.
• 4.2.PWS.1 Decodes unfamiliar longer words by combining phonics knowledge.
• 4.2.PWS.2 Decodes words using contractions, roots, affixes, morphology, and meaning.
• 4.2.SE.1 Spells unfamiliar longer words using knowledge of sounds and syllables.
• 4.2.SE.2 Spells contractions, abbreviations, and affixed words following spelling rules.
• 4.2.F.1 Reads sight words accurately and automatically in text.
• 4.2.F.2 Reads grade-level text smoothly and with expression to support understanding.
• 4.2.R.1 Identifies the key details that back up a text's main idea.
• 4.2.R.2 Compares fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to identify genres.
• 4.2.R.3 Summarizes the key events of a story in order.
• 4.2.R.4 Summarizes facts and details from informational texts.
• 4.2.W.1 Plans and drafts organized narrative, informative, and opinion writing in paragraphs.
• 4.2.W.2 Revises for clarity, flow, logical order, and transitions.
• 4.2.W.3 Edits for punctuation, capital letters, and spelling, using resources.
• 4.2.W.4 Publishes final drafts for a real audience.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• 4.3.R.1 Works out the author's purpose and cites key details as support.
• 4.3.R.2 Tells whether a literary text is in first or third person.
• 4.3.R.3 Finds evidence of setting, plot, characters, characterization, and conflict.
• 4.3.R.4 Finds evidence of metaphor, idiom, personification, and other literary devices.
• 4.3.R.5 Answers inference questions with evidence drawn from one text or several.
• 4.3.R.6 Tells facts apart from opinions and explains the supporting reasons.
• 4.3.R.7 Identifies cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and sequence structures.
• 4.3.W.1 Writes stories with a climax, dialogue, a steady point of view, and sensory details.
• 4.3.W.2 Writes informational essays with evidence, clear organization, and transitions.
• 4.3.W.3 Writes opinion essays with evidence from texts and a clear structure.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• 4.4.R.1 Identifies synonyms, antonyms, analogies, homophones, and homographs.
• 4.4.R.2 Uses context clues to clarify word meanings.
• 4.4.R.3 Uses Latin roots, affixes, and stems to work out word meanings.
• 4.4.R.4 Uses dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses to understand words.
• 4.4.R.5 Learns new words, links them to prior knowledge, and uses them.
• 4.4.W.1 Uses grade-level vocabulary to express ideas clearly.
• 4.4.W.2 Uses precise, vivid words that suit the audience and type of writing.

Standard 5: Language

• 4.5.R.1 Recognizes simple and compound sentences.
• 4.5.R.2 Identifies possessives, verb tenses, comparatives, conjunctions, and interjections.
• 4.5.W.1 Writes different kinds of sentences and avoids or fixes fragments.
• 4.5.W.2 Uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs to vary writing.
• 4.5.W.3 Spots and fixes errors in subject-verb agreement.
• 4.5.W.4 Capitalizes family words, proper adjectives, parts of a letter, and the start of quotations.
• 4.5.W.5 Uses end punctuation that fits each kind of sentence.
• 4.5.W.6 Uses apostrophes for possession and removes wrong apostrophes from plurals.
• 4.5.W.7 Uses commas in letter greetings and closings, in lists, and in dialogue.
• 4.5.W.8 Uses a colon to introduce a list.
• 4.5.W.9 Uses quotation marks for dialogue, quoted words, and titles.
• 4.5.W.10 Underlines or italicizes the titles of works.

Standard 6: Research

• 4.6.R.1 Researches questions using several sources, including interviews.
• 4.6.R.2 Uses text features to understand informational texts.
• 4.6.R.3 Judges whether information found is relevant.
• 4.6.W.1 Writes a workable research question about a topic.
• 4.6.W.2 Organizes research with a simple citation style.
• 4.6.W.3 Writes short informational texts that cite two or more sources.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• 4.7.R Compares points of view across different multimodal content.
• 4.7.W Combines writing with sound, images, layout, or movement.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• 4.8.R Reads self-chosen texts on their own for different lengths of time.
• 4.8.W Writes on their own in print, cursive, or typing for different purposes.