The fourth grade reading curriculum is based on:
- Fountas and Pinnell Reading MiniLessons
- Interactive Read Aloud books
- Narrative nonfiction, realistic fiction, biography, fantasy, and informational nonfiction book clubs
Our reading instructional sequence is:
- Understand character traits and recognize important information in a text
- Read nonfiction narrative materials and understand main idea
- Read fiction texts and understand plot, sequence, and main idea
- Understand commonalities in an author's work
- Read fiction texts: develop core questions and understand inference
- Research a topic using informational nonfiction and primary source material