Language, Grade 4

Unit 1: Literacy Connections and Applications

Using digital tools and online spaces safely and responsibly, thinking critically about media, and exploring stories and voices from many communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures.

• My rights and responsibilities online
• Managing my privacy and looking out for my well-being
• Checking if information is trustworthy
• How media is built to affect its audience
• Form, message, audience, and purpose all connect
• Using digital tools to solve real problems
• Collaborating online with respect and cultural awareness

• Identity, belonging, and history in diverse stories
• Themes and ways of knowing in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures

Unit 2: Foundations of Language

Listening and speaking with purpose, building word knowledge for meaning, and mastering more advanced sentence, grammar, and punctuation building blocks.

• Asking questions that help a speaker say more
• Using listening strategies and seeking clarification
• Speaking clearly by paraphrasing and restating
• Explaining how gestures and expression add meaning
• Choosing vivid words and varied sentences when speaking

• Using word parts to read and spell
• Figuring out new words using context and word parts
• Reading fluently and adjusting expression to purpose

• Independent and dependent clauses
• Sentences built with prepositional phrases

• Relative pronouns: who, which, and that
• The perfect verb tense
• Verbs for asking and commanding
• Using pronouns as adjectives

• Capital letters for proper adjectives
• Commas to set off nouns of direct address
• Quotation marks for titles of short works

Unit 3: Comprehension: Understanding and Responding to Texts

Reading and understanding a wide range of texts, noticing how they're built, using strategies to make meaning, and thinking critically about perspective, culture, and bias.

• Reading and understanding a variety of texts
• Describing text forms, genres, and cultural texts
• Using text patterns and features to find meaning
• How images, graphics, and design create meaning
• Analyzing style choices and why they fit a text
• Comparing first-, second-, and third-person narration
• Making meaning from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit texts

• Using and explaining prior knowledge
• Choosing texts by diverse creators for a purpose
• Predicting and checking with a question
• Adjusting reading rate and consulting other sources
• Connecting ideas to my life, other texts, and the world
• Summarizing and drawing a conclusion
• Explaining which strategies helped me understand

• Personification and anthropomorphism
• Making local and global inferences
• Analyzing main ideas, multiple plots, and cause and effect
• Investigating cultural elements and their meaning
• Noticing perspective, evidence, and bias
• Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in texts
• Connecting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit texts to today
• Naming the critical thinking skills that helped me

Unit 4: Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts

Planning with real sources and strategies, drafting and writing in cursive, revising and editing with purpose, and publishing and presenting finished texts.

• Choosing a text form that suits my purpose and audience
• Generating ideas from many topics and subjects
• Gathering and recording information from sources
• Selecting, classifying, and sequencing my content
• Explaining which planning tools helped me grow as a writer

• Drafting narrative, persuasive, and informational texts
• Writing in cursive and beginning touch-typing
• Establishing a personal voice and tone
• Noticing point of view and bias in my own writing
• Revising content and style using feedback
• Editing for accuracy and style using a word processor

• Publishing a final text using digital design tools
• Publishing, presenting, and explaining my media choices
• Describing strategies that helped me grow as a presenter