English Language Arts 4
Alberta · Grade 4 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Text Forms and Structures
Organizing idea: text can be organized in different forms and structures to communicate. How stories, informational texts, and media are built — and how the way a text is put together helps get its ideas across.
- The shape of a story
- Features of informational texts
- Matching form to purpose
Unit 2: Oral Language
Organizing idea: listening and speaking are foundational to communication. Listening carefully to understand, speaking clearly to be understood, and using talk to connect ideas and clear up confusion.
- Active listening
- Speaking clearly and on topic
- Using talk to connect ideas
Unit 3: Vocabulary
Organizing idea: vocabulary knowledge supports understanding and communication. Growing the words you know, and using word parts — prefixes, roots, and suffixes — to figure out and use new words.
- New words in different subjects
- Prefixes, roots, and suffixes
- Using new words to communicate
Unit 4: Fluency
Organizing idea: fluent reading supports comprehension. Reading with accuracy, an appropriate rate, and expression, so that attention is free for understanding the meaning.
- Smooth, expressive reading
- Fluency that sharpens understanding
Unit 5: Comprehension
Organizing idea: comprehension strategies and connections support meaning. Finding the main idea, making inferences, connecting texts to yourself and the world, and thinking critically about what you read and see — including online.
- Main idea and summarizing
- Reading between the lines
- Connecting texts to your world
- Is everything online true?
Unit 6: Writing
Organizing idea: writing shares perspectives and creative expression. Planning and organizing multi-paragraph text, writing narratives and descriptions, and researching a question to share what you found.
- Planning multi-paragraph writing
- Researching a question
- Writing a story
- Painting a picture with words
Unit 7: Conventions
Organizing idea: conventions support effective written communication. Grammar and parts of speech, sentence variety, and the spelling and punctuation that make writing clear for a reader.
- Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
- Complete sentences and sentence variety
- Punctuation that guides the reader
- Spelling strategies
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