English Language Arts, Grade 4

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Listening actively to comprehend and respond to oral and oral-visual communications; using correct vocabulary, sentence structure, and levels of language; and preparing and delivering short oral presentations with a process approach.

• Using active listening strategies
• Identifying the purpose of what you hear
• Restating the important ideas
• Contributing ideas with courtesy
• Expressing thoughts and feelings about what you hear

• Using correct vocabulary and conversational conventions
• Using sentence structures and connecting words
• Communicating ideas in a logical sequence
• Distinguishing sounds and pronouncing words correctly
• Using formal and informal language appropriately
• Reading aloud with fluency

• Planning and delivering a presentation
• Using effective presentation strategies
• Using visual aids to enhance a presentation
• Reflecting on presentation strengths and goals

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Using comprehension strategies to understand unfamiliar words and important ideas; identifying the form, structure, and elements of a variety of texts; and demonstrating critical literacy by analysing messages, perspectives, and techniques.

• Activating prior knowledge before reading
• Identifying purposes for reading
• Predicting content from illustrations
• Using text features to preview a text
• Applying French language knowledge to reading
• Using word-solving strategies
• Using visualization to understand texts
• Monitoring and revising comprehension
• Reading at an appropriate rate and expression

• Identifying elements of narrative texts
• Describing the form and structure of poems
• Identifying elements of narrative and descriptive paragraphs
• Identifying common elements of children's magazines
• Identifying elements of procedural texts
• Identifying elements of friendly messages in media

• Developing opinions by comparing ideas
• Noticing the influence of advertisements
• Analysing word and image choices
• Drawing inferences about messages

Unit 3: Writing and Representing

Generating, gathering, and organizing ideas to write for a purpose and audience; writing texts in a variety of forms; revising and editing with language conventions; and using publishing and production skills to present work.

• Determining purpose and audience
• Using pre-writing strategies to generate ideas
• Sorting and ordering ideas

• Writing simple poems
• Writing narrative paragraphs
• Writing descriptive paragraphs
• Writing procedural texts
• Producing friendly messages in media forms

• Revising to improve content and clarity
• Editing and proofreading with conventions

• Producing a clean, legible final draft
• Reflecting on writing strengths and goals