GCISD 4th Grade ELA/R Curriculum Calendar

GCISD 4th Grade ELA/R Curriculum Calendar 2015-­‐2016 This calendar is a close estimate to help guide your unit instruction throughout the year. August 2015
January 2016
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February 2016
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Curriculum Units September 2015
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Unit 1: First 9 Weeks
• Creating effective routines for reading and
writing workshop.
• Review and extend skills and strategies to
monitor their own reading and writing.
• Target text level: On-grade-level texts
Target writing level: Stage 9-10 March 2016
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Unit 2: Second 9 Weeks
October 2015
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• Focus on how writers use literary techniques
to develop a theme or central idea.
• Identify and analyze the function of literary
elements and techniques and apply them to
develop a clear, cohesive theme or central
idea in narrative and expository writings.
• Develop writing stamina by composing
narrative and an expository writing during
weeks 14, 15, and 17.
• Target text level: On-grade-level texts
Target writing level: Stage 9-10 Unit 3: Third 9 Weeks
November 2015
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• Readers infer and writers imply.
• Weeks 19-27 focus on literary techniques
writers use to convey feelings, actions, and
motives and apply these techniques to
develop theme or central idea in their own
narrative and expository compositions.
• Target text level: On-grade-level texts
Target writing level: Stage 9-11 April 2016
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May 2016
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Unit 4: Fourth 9 Weeks
December 2015
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• Understand literary techniques used to
develop ideas, connect ideas, and convey
feelings, actions, and motives of characters.
• Investigate how these literary techniques
support the central message and theme.
• Students research a self-selected destination
in Texas. They present their finds in a multigenre writing project.
• Target text level: On-grade-level texts
Target writing level: Stage 9-11 June 2016
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