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Grade 4 Scope and Sequence

This resource offers a comprehensive outline of the content for each module, ensuring a structured and systematic approach to instruction and assessment.

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Assessment Opportunities

AreaTimingStrategy

Word Study Assessments

Every 5 days during Shared Reading

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Word Study Progress

Once each month: for students with weak achievement on Word Study Assessments

Grades 3–5: Spelling Tool to track progress

Text Connections

Every 5 days

Review 4 times per module using the Grade 4: Written Response Rubric to evaluate evidence of text comprehension

Opinion Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 4: Opinion Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Narrative Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 4: Narrative Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Informative Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 4: Informative Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Editing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 4: Editing and Revision Rubric applied to finished writing

Speaking and Listening

Once per month during ELA

Observation with rubrics during ELA:

Content Knowledge, Literacy Knowledge, and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

At the end of each module during ELA

Culminating Task Rubrics:

Shared Reading

Module 1

Unit 1: Our Changing Relationships

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 20: A Strong Right Arm

  • Lessons 1–5: commotion, deliver, exhibition, mentioning, particular, universe
  • Lessons 6–10: anxious, hoist, muttering, practically, sneer, unyielding
  • Lessons 11–15: ability, audience, extended, intimidate, miracle, recognized
  • Lessons 16–20: career, hesitation, pressure, protective, reputation, situation
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20)
L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RF.4.4.c, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.10, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.7, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

21 – 38: Love, Amalia

  • Lessons 21–25: curtly, marvel, prelude, reassure, relocation, subtle
  • Lessons 26–30: concerned, containing, discarded, disheveled, insisted, transformation
  • Lessons 31–35: appropriate, elegant, episode, exchanges, mention, metropolitan
  • Lessons 36–38: centered, cherish, design, fragrance, previously, stern
  • Text Connection (L25, L30, L35)
  • Word Study Assessment (L25, L30, L35)
L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.6, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

Module 2

Unit 1: Change and Conflict

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 33: Blood on the River

  • Lessons 1–5: commoner, discontent, gallows, pawnshop, prophecy, slothfulness
  • Lessons 6–10: demonstrate, ignorant, perish, shackled, tallow, toiling
  • Lessons 11–15: eavesdrop, inclination, innocent, peninsula, pierce, provisions
  • Lessons 16–20: confer, exhorting, fury, negotiate, shirk, starvation
  • Lessons 21–25: conjecture, enthusiastic, idle, smoldering, vengeful, vision
  • Lessons 26–30: examine, foreshadowing, rationing, regal, vigil, wealthy
  • Lessons 31–33: authority, intricate, makeshift, ruckus
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30, L33)
L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.3, RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.6, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

34 – 40: Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?

  • Lessons 34–40: ceremony, coronation, heirs, monarchy, scurrying, succession, taxes
  • Text Connection (L35, L40)
  • Word Study Assessment (L40)
L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.7, RI.4.8, RI.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

Module 3

Unit 1: Looking Beneath the Surface

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 36: Tangerine

  • Lessons 1–5: operation, osprey, predator, relentlessly, smolder, transformed
  • Lessons 6–10: eligible, genuinely, intrude, irregularities, obituary, solemnly
  • Lessons 11–15: agitated, concentrated, first impression, inconsistent, out of commission, vandalism
  • Lessons 16–20: condemned, fascinating, fumigated, inescapable, milling, unison
  • Lessons 21–25: booster, caravan, pesticide, retaliate, reverence, valuables
  • Lessons 26–30: coming unglued, compromise, desperate, freeze, solemn, withering
  • Lessons 31–35: conviction, dimly, justice, menacing, mirage, restitution
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30, L35)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30, L35)
L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.7, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

37 – 55: My Life as a Book

    • Text Connection (L40, L45, L50)
    • Word Study Assessment (L40, L45, L50)
    		L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.6, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6, W.4.2

    Module 4

    Unit 1: Understanding Each Other

    Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    1 – 30: Starry River of the Sky

    • Lessons 1–5: ancestors, annoyance, kowtow, noxious, silhouette, whimpering
    • Lessons 6–10: contemplation, decrepit, fierceness, insult, resolute, seething
    • Lessons 11–15: despaired, indignation, nonchalant, oblivious, pestilence, wretched
    • Lessons 16–20: appropriate, belied, complimentary, disbelief, disgust, valiant
    • Lessons 21–25: abundant, patronizing, persist, petulant, plaintive, reconciled
    • Lessons 26–30: contentment, obedient, proclamation, sacrifice, tranquility, vulnerable
    • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
    • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
    		L.4.4, L.4.4.a, L.4.5, L.4.5.a, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

    Unit 2: Making a Difference

    Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    31 – 37: The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin

    • Lessons 31–36: apprentice, compromise, frontier, inevitable, optimistic, pessimistic, sympathetic, vocabulary
    • Text Connection (L35)
    • Word Study Assessment (L36)
    		L.4.4, L.4.5, L.4.6, RF.4.3.a, RF.4.4, RF.4.4.a, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.10, RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.6, RL.4.10, SL.4.1, SL.4.6

    English Language Arts

    Module 1

    Unit 1: Writing for a Purpose

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    1 – 5: Narrative Writing

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, SL.4.1.d, W.4.3, W.4.3.a, W.4.3.b, W.4.3.e, W.4.4, W.4.5

    6 – 10: Opinion Writing

    A Strong Right Arm

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, SL.4.1.d, W.4.1, W.4.1.a, W.4.1.b, W.4.1.c, W.4.1.d, W.4.4, W.4.5

    Unit 2: Natural Disasters

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    11 – 15: Read Aloud

    Earthquakes

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Combine
    • Imitate
    • Expand
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1, L.4.1.a, L.4.1.c, L.4.1.e, L.4.3.c, L.4.4.b, L.4.5, L.4.5.a, L.4.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.7, RL.4.5.a, SL.4.2, W.4.2, W.4.2.d, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.10

    16 – 20: Read Aloud

    Go Straight to the Source

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Imitate
    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Unscramble
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.b, L.4.1.c, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.3.b, L.4.4.c, L.4.5.c, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.7, RL.4.5.a, SL.4.2, W.4.2.c, W.4.5, W.4.7, W.4.10

    21 – 30: Culminating Task

    Earthquakes; Go Straight to the Source

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    L.4.2.a, L.4.2.d, L.4.4.c, RI.4.3, RI.4.9, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.a, SL.4.1.b, W.4.2, W.4.2.a, W.4.2.b, W.4.2.c, W.4.2.d, W.4.2.e, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.6, W.4.7, W.4.8

    Unit 3: Mysterious Exploration

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    31 – 33: Read Aloud

    Roanoke: The Lost Colony

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.f, L.4.2, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.b, L.4.4.c, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.7, RI.4.8, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.2.c, W.4.5, W.4.10

    34 – 38: Narrative Nonfiction

    Roanoke: The Lost Colony

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    L.4.2.a, L.4.2.d, L.4.4.c, RI.4.1, RI.4.6, SL.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.2.a, W.4.2.b, W.4.2.d, W.4.5, W.4.6

    Module 2

    Unit 1: The Mysteries of Friendship

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    1 – 8: Narrative Writing

    Roanoke: The Lost Colony; A Strong Right Arm

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    SL.4.1, SL.4.1.d, SL.4.2, W.4.2.a, W.4.3, W.4.3.a, W.4.3.b, W.4.3.d, W.4.3.e, W.4.5

    9 – 11: Read Aloud

    Worst of Friends

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Unscramble
    • Imitate
    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.c, L.4.1.f, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.a, L.4.4.c, L.4.5, L.4.5.c, RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RL.4.5.a, W.4.1, W.4.1.a, W.4.2.d, W.4.5

    12 – 18: Informative Writing

    Worst of Friends; Roanoke: The Lost Colony

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    RI.4.2, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.d, SL.4.2, SL.4.4, W.4.2, W.4.2.c, W.4.4

    Unit 2: Tracking Relationships

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    19 – 27: Read Aloud

    My Life in Dog Years

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Imitate
    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Unscramble
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1, L.4.1.a, L.4.1.b, L.4.1.c, L.4.1.d, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.2, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.4.c, L.4.6, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.3, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.10

    28: Opinion Writing

    My Life in Dog Years

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    SL.4.1, SL.4.1.d, W.4.1, W.4.4, W.4.5

    29 – 30: Read Aloud

    Shaking Things Up

    pioneer, blazed a path, rocket scientist, ignition

    Sentence Composing

    • Imitate
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1, L.4.1.b, L.4.1.c, L.4.1.e, L.4.3, L.4.3.a, L.4.5.b, L.4.5.c, L.4.6, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.9, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.10, SL.4.2, W.4.2, W.4.5, W.4.8, W.4.9, W.4.10

    31 – 40: Culminating Task

    Blood on the River; Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?; Worst of Friends; My Life in Dog Years; Shaking Things Up

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    L.4.2.a, L.4.2.d, L.4.4.c, RL.4.1, SL.4.1, SL.4.4, W.4.1, W.4.1.a, W.4.1.b, W.4.1.c, W.4.1.d, W.4.5

    Module 3

    Unit 1: Finding Courage

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    1 – 3: Read Aloud

    Shaking Things Up

    innovator, legendary, homeland, embodied, cuisine, routine

    Sentence Composing

    • Expand
    • Imitate
    • Unscramble
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1, L.4.1.a, L.4.1.b, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.3, L.4.4.b, L.4.5.b, L.4.5.c, L.4.6, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.9, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.5, W.4.8, W.4.9, W.4.10

    4 – 22: Read Aloud

    Hatchet

    lurched, thrumming, rebelled, altimeter, wallow, spiral, hummock, swarm, murky, stranded, lean-to, slits, crude, gingerly, wince, ignite, exasperation, dormant, bluff, ridge, persistent, propping, exulted, refract, impaired, enclosure, insane, streamlined, bellowed, tattered, cargo, fuselage, stabilizer, visibility, butane, encased

    Sentence Composing

    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Unscramble
    • Imitate
    • Respond Together
    • Text Connections

    L.4.1, L.4.1.a, L.4.1.b, L.4.1.d, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.a, L.4.4, L.4.4.c, L.4.6, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.5.a, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.2.b, W.4.2.c, W.4.3, W.4.3.c, W.4.3.d, W.4.5

    23 – 28: Culminating Task

    Hatchet

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    L.4.2.a, L.4.2.d, L.4.4.c, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, W.4.3, W.4.3.a, W.4.3.b, W.4.3.d, W.4.3.e, W.4.5, W.4.6

    29 – 55: Read Aloud

    Alabama Moon

    stoop, reflection, butchered, routine, storage, sense of reality, clutching, dwelling, juvenile center, assaulting, militia, gristle, property of the state, foster home, motioned, jittery, hesitated, twitched, trembled, rig, thicket, loping, ravine, jowls, roiling, lick, diverted, brittle, assured, bearings, evasion, fugitive, machine gun, throbbing, inspecting, peered, installing, civilization, jostled, reasoned, canteen, yanked, tact, advice, commotion, irrelevant, operates, hovering, intensive, unconscious

    Sentence Composing

    • Expand
    • Imitate
    • Combine
    • Unscramble
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.4, L.4.4.c, L.4.5, L.4.5.a, L.4.6, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.5.a, SL.4.1.c, SL.4.2, W.4.1, W.4.1.c, W.4.2.c, W.4.3, W.4.3.c, W.4.5

    Module 4

    Unit 1: The Power of Words

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    1 – 3: Read Aloud

    Miss Alaineus

    N/A

    Sentence Composing

    • Combine
    • Expand
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.f, L.4.3, L.4.4.c, L.4.6, RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, SL.4.1.c, W.4.2.c, W.4.3, W.4.3.c, W.4.5, W.4.10

    4 – 8: Opinion Writing

    My Life as a Book

    N/A

    N/A

    • Work Session Product

    L.4.3.a, RL.4.1, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, W.4.1, W.4.1.a, W.4.1.b, W.4.1.c, W.4.1.d, W.4.5, W.4.6

    Unit 2: The Power of Actions

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    9 – 12: Read Aloud

    Freedom on the Menu

    N/A

    Sentence Composing

    • Imitate
    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.e, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.a, L.4.3.c, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, W.4.3, W.4.5

    13: Read Aloud

    Shaking Things Up

    apprentice, whittling

    Sentence Composing

    • Imitate
    • Text Connections

    L.4.1, L.4.1.b, L.4.3, L.4.5.c, L.4.6, RF.4.4.b, RI.4.9, RL.4.1, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.10, SL.4.2, W.4.2, W.4.5, W.4.9, W.4.10

    Unit 3: Understanding Our World

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    14 – 19: Read Aloud

    The Moon Book

    Embedded Vocabulary

    Sentence Composing

    • Expand
    • Combine
    • Unscramble
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.1.g, L.4.2, L.4.4.c, L.4.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.7, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.2.c, W.4.3, W.4.3.c, W.4.5, W.4.10

    20 – 23: Read Aloud

    Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean

    shriveled, scrawny, specimen, chemical, laboratory, emerged, elite, solution

    Sentence Composing

    • Combine
    • Imitate
    • Unscramble
    • Expand
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.a, L.4.5.c, L.4.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.7, RL.4.1, SL.4.2, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.5, W.4.9, W.4.10

    24 – 27: Read Aloud

    Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic

    impatiently, humid, fortunate, screechy, porcelain, annual, generation, spontaneous

    Sentence Composing

    • Combine
    • Imitate
    • Unscramble
    • Expand
    • Text Connections
    • Respond Together

    L.4.1.a, L.4.1.e, L.4.1.f, L.4.2.b, L.4.2.c, L.4.3.a, L.4.3.b, L.4.4.c, L.4.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RL.4.1, RL.4.3, SL.4.1, W.4.1, W.4.3, W.4.5, W.4.9, W.4.10

    Unit 4: My Journey in Literacy This Year

    Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

    28 – 32: Culminating Task

    A Strong Right Arm; Love, Amalia; Earthquakes; Go Straight to the Source; Roanoke: The Lost Colony; Tangerine; My Life as a Book; Shaking Things Up; Hatchet; Alabama Moon; Starry River of the Sky; The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin; Miss Alaineus; Freedom on the Menu; The Moon Book; Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean; Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    L.4.3.a, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, SL.4.1.c, SL.4.3, SL.4.4, SL.4.5, W.4.1.a, W.4.1.b, W.4.5

    33 – 37: Culminating Task

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    L.4.3, SL.4.1, SL.4.1.b, SL.4.5, W.4.3, W.4.3.a, W.4.3.b, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.6