AlbertaGrade 4
AB Grade 4 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 4 English topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Help with reading, writing, grammar, and more.
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 |
Alberta Grade 4 English Curriculum Overview
Grade 4 English in Alberta covers a wide range of literacy skills that help students become stronger readers, writers, and communicators. The curriculum is organized across reading, writing, oral communication, vocabulary, and language conventions — all building on skills introduced in Grade 3.
Reading and Comprehension
Alberta Grade 4 students explore a variety of texts including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and media. They learn to identify an author's purpose, examine point of view, make inferences, and connect texts to their own experiences and the world around them. Students also develop metacognitive strategies to monitor and repair their own reading comprehension.
- Fiction sub-genres and narrative structures including subplots and flashbacks
- Non-fiction text structures such as introduction, main idea, supporting details, and conclusion
- Figurative language including personification, analogy, idiom, and poetic devices
- Media texts that combine sounds, words, images, and graphics
- Prediction, inference, and connection-making strategies across text types
Writing and Creative Expression
Grade 4 writers in Alberta develop their personal voice and learn to write for different audiences and purposes. They work through the complete writing process — planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing — while experimenting with sentence variety, figurative language, and paragraph organization.
- Paragraph writing with topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences
- Creative writing including verse, free verse, and concrete poetry
- Revision strategies to enhance clarity, fluency, and creative expression
- Editing for spelling, punctuation, and grammar conventions
- Incorporating text features, images, and charts when publishing written work
Oral Communication and Listening
Alberta Grade 4 students develop confidence in speaking and listening through collaborative activities, presentations, and respectful conversations. They learn to adjust their volume, intonation, and phrasing to suit different audiences and situations.
- Active listening strategies in collaborative work and group discussions
- Public speaking skills including voice projection and use of visual aids
- Identifying opinions and points of view in spoken texts
- Sharing poetry from memory with emphasis, pausing, and phrasing
Vocabulary and Word Study
Grade 4 vocabulary instruction in Alberta focuses on tier 2 and tier 3 words, morphemes, affixes, figurative language, and word origins. Students use digital and non-digital resources to confirm word meanings and apply vocabulary knowledge across subject areas.
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
Alberta Grade 4 English includes explicit instruction in grammar and language conventions to support clear written communication. Students learn to apply these skills consistently across all writing contexts.
- Sentence types, subject-verb agreement, and verb tenses
- Commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and end-of-sentence punctuation
- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and conjunctions in sentences
- Spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, and compound words
- Cursive handwriting and keyboarding skills for publishing written work