Learning Guide: Fourth Grade

In the Classroom

Teachers will show students how to...

• Learn more complex oral presentation skills (explaining and presenting stories, puns, riddles, anecdotes and plays); make oral presentations without notes.
• Use the dictionary to determine word meanings and pronunciations; Use encyclopedias, CD-ROMS and the Internet to locate information; use maps, globes, pictures, diagrams and complicated graphs.
• Summarize a story with the book closed; arrange events in sequential order without signal words (like first and second); compare and contrast works of different authors; begin to understand metaphor, imagery, and flashbacks.
• Learn simple research concepts for writing papers; learn to delete superfluous information; differentiate between figurative and literal language; follow more complex plots.
• Round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred; add and subtract decimals to hundredths; order, compare and use numbers through millions; divide numbers using long division; multiply two and three-digit numbers; add and subtract fractions.
• Solve multi-step math word problems, using metric and U.S. standard units; understand and be able to calculate area and perimeter; identify parallel and perpendicular lines and right, acute and obtuse angles.
• Discuss structure of local, state and federal government; identify executive, legislative and judicial functions.
• Learn ways in which plants and animals protect themselves; learn to predict events (like storms) from a trend in data.
• Be able to articulate what you do to solve a math problem, and why.