4th Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.4.RF.1 No new grade 4 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with print concepts.
• ELA.4.RF.2 No new grade 4 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with sound awareness.
• ELA.4.RF.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to read and spell words.
  • a. Combine letter-sound and syllable patterns and word parts to read unfamiliar long words accurately.
• ELA.4.RF.4 Read grade-level text fluently, with accuracy, good pace and expression, to support understanding.
  • a. Read with a clear purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or fix word reading and meaning, rereading when needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.4.RL.1 Use evidence from the text to explain what it says directly and to support inferences.
• ELA.4.RL.2 Analyze how a theme develops, citing stated and implied evidence, and summarize the text.
• ELA.4.RL.3 Describe a character, setting or event in depth and analyze how they interact, using specific details.
• ELA.4.RL.4 Work out the meaning of words and phrases, including figurative language, and explain their effect on meaning.
• ELA.4.RL.5 Analyze the overall structure of poems, stories and plays, such as linear, non-linear or circular.
• ELA.4.RL.6 Compare first-person and third-person narrators and how each affects readers.
• ELA.4.RL.7 Link a story or play to a visual or spoken version, comparing what they imagined with what they see and hear.
• ELA.4.RL.9 Compare themes, topics and patterns of events in stories, myths and traditional tales from different cultures.
• ELA.4.RL.10 On their own, use a range of decoding and comprehension strategies, including for long words, to read and analyze complex literature.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.4.RI.1 Use evidence from an informational text to explain what it states directly and to support inferences.
• ELA.4.RI.2 Analyze how central ideas come through, citing stated and implied evidence, and summarize the text.
• ELA.4.RI.3 Explain the people, events, procedures or ideas in history, science or technical texts, including causes.
• ELA.4.RI.4 Work out the meaning of academic and subject words in grade 4 texts and explain their effect on meaning.
• ELA.4.RI.5 Describe the overall structure an author uses to organize events, ideas, concepts or information.
• ELA.4.RI.6 Compare firsthand and secondhand accounts of one topic, noting differences in focus and information.
• ELA.4.RI.7 Interpret visual, spoken or numerical information and explain how it adds to understanding of the text.
• ELA.4.RI.8 Explain the reasons and evidence an author gives for particular points.
• ELA.4.RI.9 Combine information from two texts on one topic to speak or write about it knowledgeably.
• ELA.4.RI.10 On their own, use a range of decoding and comprehension strategies, including for long words, to read and analyze complex informational texts.

Writing (W)

• ELA.4.W.1 Write opinion pieces that back a position with reasons and information.
  • a. Introduce the topic or text, state the opinion and group related ideas to suit the purpose.
  • b. Support reasons with facts and details.
  • c. Use suitable linking words to build structure across paragraphs.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.4.W.2 Write informative or explanatory texts that examine a topic and get ideas across clearly.
  • a. Introduce the topic clearly, group information into paragraphs and sections and add helpful formatting or visuals.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations or examples.
  • c. Use suitable joining words to build structure inside sentences.
  • d. Use suitable linking words to build structure across paragraphs.
  • e. Use precise language and subject vocabulary to explain the topic.
  • f. Give an ending.
• ELA.4.W.3 Write narratives of real or imagined experiences with techniques, descriptive details and a clear order.
  • a. Set the scene, introduce a narrator or characters and order events in a linear, non-linear or circular way.
  • b. Use dialogue and description to develop events or show how characters respond.
  • c. Use a range of joining and linking words to manage the order of events.
  • d. Use concrete words and sensory details to describe experiences precisely.
  • e. Give an ending that follows from the events.
• ELA.4.W.4 Produce clear, connected writing whose development and organization suit the task, purpose and audience.
• ELA.4.W.5 With guidance from classmates, plan, draft, revise, edit and rewrite to improve writing.
• ELA.4.W.6 With guidance, use digital tools, the internet and handwriting to publish writing and work with others.
• ELA.4.W.7 Complete short research projects that look at different sides of a topic.
• ELA.4.W.8 Gather information from experience and print or digital sources, take notes, sort them and list sources.
• ELA.4.W.9 Draw evidence from literature or informational texts as support for analysis, reflection and research.
• ELA.4.W.10 Write regularly over long and short periods for a range of subject tasks, purposes and audiences.

Language (L)

• ELA.4.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Recognize, explain and use relative pronouns and relative adverbs.
  • b. Form and use progressive verb tenses.
  • c. Use helping verbs such as can, may and must to show different conditions.
  • d. Put adjectives in the usual order within sentences.
  • e. Form and use prepositional phrases.
  • f. Write complete sentences, spotting and fixing fragments and run-ons.
  • g. Use often-confused words correctly, such as to, too and two or there, their and they're.
• ELA.4.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Follow capitalization rules.
  • b. Use commas and quotation marks for direct speech and for quotations from a text.
  • c. In compound sentences, place a comma before the joining word (and, but, or).
  • d. Spell grade-level words correctly, checking print and digital references when needed.
• ELA.4.L.3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
  • a. Choose words and phrases to express ideas precisely.
  • b. Choose punctuation for effect.
  • c. Tell settings that need formal English from those where informal talk fits.
• ELA.4.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
  • a. Use context as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Use common Greek and Latin roots and affixes as hints to meaning.
  • c. Use dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses and other tools for pronunciation and exact meaning.
• ELA.4.L.5 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Explain simple similes and metaphors in context.
  • b. Recognize and explain common idioms, adages and proverbs.
  • c. Link words with their synonyms and antonyms.
• ELA.4.L.6 Learn and use correctly academic and subject words for grade 4, including precise words for actions, feelings and states.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.4.SL.1 Take part well in different kinds of discussion with varied partners on grade 4 topics, building on others' ideas.
  • a. Come ready, using assigned reading and other known information.
  • b. Follow agreed rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer specific questions and link comments to others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and explain their own understanding in light of the discussion.
  • e. Judge how well the discussion went.
• ELA.4.SL.2 Paraphrase a text read aloud or information given in different media and formats.
• ELA.4.SL.3 Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker gives for particular points.
• ELA.4.SL.4 Present a topic, story or experience in an organized way with facts and details, speaking clearly at a good pace.
• ELA.4.SL.5 Add audio recordings and visuals to presentations when they strengthen the main ideas or themes.
• ELA.4.SL.6 Tell formal from informal settings and use formal English when the task needs it.