AlbertaGrade 4
AB Grade 4 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 4 English topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Help your child keep up with reading, writing, and language skills.
AB Grade 4 English Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
LO_ID | Learning Outcome-Skills & Procedures | StudyPug Topic |
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ELA.4.TFS.1 | Text purpose identification and personal preference reflection: Confirm the author's or text creator's purpose based on information in the text and explain how personal preferences for texts inspire fascinate or expand understandings |
ELA.4.TFS.2 | Genre recognition and literary form analysis: Examine a variety of literary forms used to communicate ideas and information and differentiate between a variety of fiction sub-genres considering content characters time or place |
ELA.4.TFS.3 | Story organization and complex narrative elements: Examine the structure of a variety of narrative texts and examine fictional text structures that include main plots with subplots or flashbacks |
ELA.4.TFS.4 | Character development and narrative perspective: Examine elements within a variety of fictional texts including point of view and determine if characters in fictional texts are major or minor |
ELA.4.TFS.5 | Perspective interpretation and narrator analysis: Create imaginative representations or dramatizations of fictional texts that depict point of view and examine the narrator's point of view in texts |
ELA.4.TFS.6 | Informational text structure and critical evaluation: Investigate ways that non-fiction texts can be organized to support sharing of information and discuss a variety of facts and opinions expressed in non-fiction texts |
ELA.4.TFS.7 | Poetic analysis and creative language study: Investigate figurative language used in imaginative ways and examine how a variety of poetic structures contribute to creative expression of ideas |
ELA.4.TFS.8 | Creative writing and information design: Experiment with creating verse free verse or concrete poetry and examine a variety of text features that provide important information in a text |
ELA.4.TFS.9 | Organizational patterns and text enhancement: Determine how the structure of texts can support the organization and communication of ideas or information and include a variety of text features to organize clarify or enhance information |
ELA.4.TFS.10 | Digital text analysis and multimodal communication: Examine media texts that combine sounds words images and graphics and analyze how digital and non-digital text features enhance communication |
ELA.4.TFS.11 | Sub-genre analysis and creative text exploration: Analyze fantasy as fictional text that contains elements that are highly unreal and explore how fictional texts can open minds to new possibilities and ideas |
ELA.4.TFS.12 | Non-fiction genre study and text structure analysis: Examine procedural texts including recipes and instruction manuals and analyze non-fiction text structures including introduction main idea supporting details and conclusion |
ELA.4.OL.1 | Cultural literacy and heritage connections: Describe personal connections to spirit land the universe time or people revealed through oral traditions and discuss protocols used to share oral traditions |
ELA.4.OL.2 | Interactive discussion and collaborative communication: Contribute respectfully to a variety of interactions that involve listening and speaking and demonstrate active listening when engaging in collaborative work |
ELA.4.OL.3 | Critical listening and comprehension through listening: Identify opinions or points of view shared in conversations or texts that are listened to and use a variety of listening strategies to support understanding |
ELA.4.OL.4 | Speaking mechanics and vocal presentation: Select appropriate volume intonation phrasing and pausing to create a desired effect when speaking or presenting and project voice appropriately for the audience and situation |
ELA.4.OL.5 | Communication clarity and effect creation: Adjust verbal and non-verbal language to enhance clarity or create effects when communicating |
ELA.4.OL.6 | Speech preparation and logical structure: Plan ideas and details in a logical manner including introductions and conclusions and present information that engages informs persuades or entertains an audience |
ELA.4.OL.7 | Oral interpretation and presentation enhancement: Share a poem from memory demonstrating emphasis pausing and phrasing that enhance the presentation and integrate visual aids to enhance communication |
ELA.4.OL.8 | Audience awareness and vocabulary selection: Vary word choice to appeal to an audience and participate in presentations as a respectful audience member |
ELA.4.OL.9 | Comprehensive presentation and communication skills: Develop comprehensive public speaking abilities through integration of voice projection visual aids audience awareness and respectful interaction |
ELA.4.OL.10 | Advanced discussion and listening skill application: Apply advanced collaborative communication skills including active listening respectful interaction and effective verbal and non-verbal communication in group settings |
ELA.4.VOC.1 | Vocabulary precision and tier 2 application: Communicate clearly and accurately using precise alternatives for commonly used words and apply tier 2 words in a variety of literacy contexts |
ELA.4.VOC.2 | Tier 3 vocabulary and word documentation: Use tier 3 words to describe subject content and record information about words in a variety of ways |
ELA.4.VOC.3 | Word meaning confirmation and cross-context application: Confirm word meanings spellings or word choices using a variety of digital or non-digital resources and integrate knowledge of word study across multiple literacy contexts |
ELA.4.VOC.4 | Relationship identification and comparison skills: Use analogies to compare two things and analyze the meanings of words or phrases expressed figuratively |
ELA.4.VOC.5 | Word building and morphological awareness: Examine morphemes in words to determine meaning and analyze the meaning of affixes and how they influence the meaning of bases |
ELA.4.VOC.6 | Morphological prediction and word origins: Predict meanings of unfamiliar words using morphological cues and analyze word origins for meaning and spelling |
ELA.4.VOC.7 | Advanced vocabulary and creative language analysis: Analyze personification analogy and idiom as figurative language devices and examine how figurative language creates desired effects in texts |
ELA.4.VOC.8 | Vocabulary application and word study synthesis: Apply vocabulary knowledge across subject areas and synthesize word study concepts for enhanced communication in multiple contexts |
ELA.4.FLU.1 | Fluent reading and comprehension demonstration: Demonstrate comprehension of text through appropriate stress on words pausing phrasing intonation and use of punctuation |
ELA.4.FLU.2 | Expressive reading and character voice development: Read dialogue with phrasing and expression to reflect understandings of characters and events |
ELA.4.COM.1 | Self-directed comprehension and reading process integration: Independently read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of texts that increase in length or complexity and apply comprehension processes and strategies when interacting with texts |
ELA.4.COM.2 | Prior knowledge integration and text relationship analysis: Examine connections between texts and self between a text and other texts and between texts and the world and compare or contrast aspects of texts within an individual text or between multiple texts |
ELA.4.COM.3 | Meaningful engagement and connection reflection: Reflect on personal connections to a text that best support understandings and create personal responses to a variety of texts by synthesizing information |
ELA.4.COM.4 | Anticipation strategies and prediction-comprehension relationship: Revise or confirm predictions based on new or additional information in texts and examine how making modifying or confirming predictions supports text comprehension |
ELA.4.COM.5 | Logical reasoning and relationship identification: Infer cause-and-effect relationships in texts and make inferences in texts that reach beyond personal experiences |
ELA.4.COM.6 | Beyond-experience reasoning and multi-source synthesis: Combine information from various sources to draw conclusions and infer ideas that are not explicitly stated in texts |
ELA.4.COM.7 | Text processing and knowledge construction integration: Synthesize a variety of information when creating summaries of texts and demonstrate advanced information processing skills |
ELA.4.COM.8 | Comprehension repair and strategic reading awareness: Apply self-monitoring skills to self-correct when comprehension breaks down during reading and evaluate skills that can be implemented to repair and strengthen reading comprehension |
ELA.4.COM.9 | Metacognitive strategy application and reading effectiveness: Apply metacognitive strategies that are personally effective when reading and integrate strategic reading approaches for various text types |
ELA.4.COM.10 | Self-evaluation and reading development monitoring: Monitor personal reading growth and apply comprehensive reading strategies across increasingly complex texts |
ELA.4.COM.11 | Advanced comprehension and analytical thinking synthesis: Integrate critical reading skills with personal response creation and demonstrate mastery of comprehensive reading processes |
ELA.4.COM.12 | Strategic reading integration and skill synthesis: Demonstrate mastery of integrated comprehension strategies including prediction inference connection-making and metacognitive awareness across various text types and complexities |
ELA.4.WRI.1 | Audience awareness and genre exploration: Create written texts for a variety of audiences and purposes and create written texts using a variety of text forms and structures |
ELA.4.WRI.2 | Writing process and creative development integration: Develop creative expression through the use of organizational processes methods and tools and share perspectives on a topic in a clear and focused manner |
ELA.4.WRI.3 | Stylistic writing and text organization: Develop creative expression through a range of sentence beginnings lengths and types and develop a logical order by grouping ideas into paragraphs |
ELA.4.WRI.4 | Paragraph structure and coherence building: Write paragraphs with topic and concluding sentences and develop logical paragraph organization with supporting details |
ELA.4.WRI.5 | Text improvement and creative expression enhancement: Reread written texts to identify what could be added or deleted to enhance creative expression and revise texts to enhance clarity or fluency |
ELA.4.WRI.6 | Accuracy and presentation skill combination: Edit writing for spelling punctuation and grammar and incorporate images charts graphs or other text features when publishing selected pieces |
ELA.4.WRI.7 | Innovation and voice development through various techniques: Apply creative-thinking processes to enhance the expression of ideas or emotions and examine how effective writing provides insight into creative expression |
ELA.4.WRI.8 | Hook development and descriptive writing enhancement: Experiment with ideas and word choice to create beginnings that catch the audience's attention and experiment with sensory detail or figurative language |
ELA.4.WRI.9 | Character voice and narrative voice creation: Communicate personal voice or the voice of characters in narratives through dialogue and relate how connections between audience purpose and text form influence creative expression |
ELA.4.WRI.10 | Stylistic enhancement and ending development: Generate effects in creative expression through punctuation and create thoughtful conclusions that tie up events or leave readers wondering |
ELA.4.WRI.11 | Format selection and critical communication: Select a variety of presentation forms or text features to critically share perspectives and demonstrate advanced presentation skills |
ELA.4.WRI.12 | Source evaluation and ethical information use: Access information from a variety of sources to critically answer questions and demonstrate how information can be ethically shared using various methods |
ELA.4.WRI.13 | Responsible communication and academic integrity: Use information ethically to create text for an intended audience and choose and cite appropriate sources of information to inform research |
ELA.4.WRI.14 | Visual presentation and penmanship skill combination: Enhance the artistry of personally written works using selected methods or tools and use cursive handwriting with appropriate letter formation size proportion and slant |
ELA.4.WRI.15 | Keyboarding and digital tool application: Apply keyboarding skills to enhance written works and integrate digital tools effectively in writing processes |
ELA.4.WRI.16 | Comprehensive writing skill integration and finalization: Demonstrate mastery of the complete writing process from planning through publication including creative expression revision and presentation |
ELA.4.WRI.17 | Sophisticated writing technique integration and voice mastery: Apply advanced writing craft techniques including voice development creative effects and sophisticated revision strategies for various audiences and purposes |
ELA.4.WRI.18 | Cooperative writing processes and feedback integration: Engage in collaborative writing processes including peer review feedback integration and cooperative text creation for various purposes and audiences |
ELA.4.CON.1 | Writing conventions and sentence completion: Capitalize words appropriately in different contexts and include a variety of punctuation at the end of sentences |
ELA.4.CON.2 | Internal punctuation and dialogue formatting: Insert commas to indicate pause between parts of sentences to separate items in lists or follow transition words and insert quotation marks to identify speaker words or special emphasis |
ELA.4.CON.3 | Contraction punctuation and sentence type recognition: Insert apostrophes in place of letters in contractions and to show possession and distinguish between a variety of sentence types |
ELA.4.CON.4 | Grammar analysis and sentence component recognition: Determine if text is in present past or future tense and identify nouns or pronouns that are subjects or objects of sentences |
ELA.4.CON.5 | Grammar application and word function analysis: Examine possessive adjectives in sentences and use adjectives to indicate comparison of two or more things using er or est forms |
ELA.4.CON.6 | Grammar consistency and sentence connection: Use conjunctions to connect phrases in sentences and apply consistent subject-verb agreement in a variety of sentences |
ELA.4.CON.7 | Orthographic awareness and pattern recognition: Identify spelling patterns within and across words and apply knowledge of known words word parts and patterns to spell unfamiliar words |
ELA.4.CON.8 | Morphological spelling and exception recognition: Spell a variety of prefixes and suffixes accurately in words and identify words that are not spelled in predictable ways |
ELA.4.CON.9 | Sound-alike differentiation and fluency development: Differentiate between the spelling and associated meaning of homophones and apply a variety of spelling strategies to increase writing fluency |
ELA.4.CON.10 | Reference skills and advanced word construction: Use a variety of tools to spell or confirm spelling of words and spell compound words contractions possessives and complex plurals |
ELA.4.CON.11 | Morphological awareness and complex orthography: Recognize and spell common suffixes and demonstrate mastery of advanced spelling concepts and irregular word patterns |
ELA.4.CON.12 | Comprehensive grammar application and language system understanding: Apply integrated knowledge of grammar punctuation and spelling conventions to enhance written communication effectiveness and demonstrate mastery of Grade 4 language mechanics |
ELA.4.CON.13 | Advanced proofreading and comprehensive convention application: Demonstrate comprehensive mastery of Grade 4 writing conventions through advanced editing skills and apply all convention knowledge to enhance communication clarity and effectiveness |