Nova Scotia Grade 4 ELA Curriculum

Video lessons and practice for every Grade 4 English Language Arts topic. Aligned to what Nova Scotia schools teach. Help with reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar.

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ELA.4.A1.1

Active listening and comprehension: Select and use listening strategies by asking questions to clarify understanding and respond to others in different contexts including cultural contexts

ELA.4.A1.2

Communication strategies and interpretation: Identify and use oral and non-verbal communication strategies to understand or communicate ideas and meaning

ELA.4.A1.3

Language conventions and expression: Use explicitly taught vocabulary, syntax, and grammar to expand on communicating ideas and information

ELA.4.A2.1

Phonics and orthographic knowledge: Use phonics and orthographic knowledge to fluently read, spell, and pronounce multisyllabic words

ELA.4.A2.2

Word structure and meaning: Use developing morphological knowledge to understand, read and spell words with increasing independence

ELA.4.A2.3

Academic and subject-specific vocabulary: Identify the meaning of vocabulary through implicit learning, explicit instruction, and word awareness

ELA.4.A2.4

Accuracy rate and prosody: Read texts fluently with accuracy, pacing and expression to support comprehension

ELA.4.A3.1

Sentence types and construction: Identify and create different sentence types, including simple and compound sentences

ELA.4.A3.2

Language structure and usage: Identify how different parts of speech work in sentences and use them correctly to support reading comprehension and writing

ELA.4.A3.3

Writing conventions and clarity: Use capitalization and a variety of punctuation correctly, to communicate clearly

ELA.4.B1.1

Understanding text types: Use knowledge of different text forms and organizational structures to support comprehension

ELA.4.B1.2

Organizational structures and features: Identify organizational structures and text features and apply this knowledge to support reading comprehension

ELA.4.B1.3

Images graphics and design: Examine the relationship between visual elements, visual design and text, describe how they communicate meaning

ELA.4.B1.4

Literary and rhetorical techniques: Identify various elements of style in texts and explain how each element helps create meaning

ELA.4.B2.1

Prior knowledge and schema: Use both implicitly learned and explicitly taught background knowledge to support comprehension before and during reading

ELA.4.B2.2

Goal setting and text selection: Identify and describe the purpose for reading a text and develop reading goals to support this purpose

ELA.4.B2.3

Monitoring and clarifying meaning: Use strategies to support reading goals. Identify when comprehension has broken down and apply strategies to clarify meaning

ELA.4.B2.4

Drawing conclusions from text: Make inferences using implicit and explicitly taught background knowledge and evidence from the text to support comprehension

ELA.4.B3.1

Language techniques and effects: Recognize literary devices and rhetorical techniques in texts and describe how they contribute to the meaning

ELA.4.B3.2

Narrative perspective: Identify the point of view in texts

ELA.4.B3.3

Literary elements and interpretation: Analyze how the author's use of literary elements in various texts influences a reader's understanding and interpretation of the text

ELA.4.C1.1

Self-assessment and improvement: Identify strengths and areas for growth and develop relevant writing goals

ELA.4.C1.2

Writing context and intention: Identify the topic, audience, and purpose for writing

ELA.4.C1.3

Brainstorming and planning: Use explicitly taught strategies to generate and document ideas or topics for writing

ELA.4.C1.4

Text structure and planning: Use explicitly taught form-specific text structures to organize content

ELA.4.C2.1

Writing fluency and technology: Write fluently by hand and develop word processing skills to support writing

ELA.4.C2.2

Composing and developing text: Draft texts using knowledge of audience, purpose, topic, and conventions

ELA.4.C2.4

Improving content and clarity: Reflect on personal writing goals and use revision strategies to improve content, clarity, and style

ELA.4.C2.5

Accuracy and conventions: Make edits to drafts to improve accuracy, check for errors, and explore the use of a word processor

ELA.4.C3.1

Sharing and communication: Produce and Present text to audiences

ELA.4.C3.2

Growth and improvement: Reflect on strengths and areas for growth throughout the writing process

ELA.4.D1.1

Subject-specific terminology: Use subject-specific vocabulary and background knowledge to support reading, writing, and communication in content area

ELA.4.D1.2

Key information and relevance: Gather and use key information from texts and multiple sources to build, organize and communicate understanding

ELA.4.D1.3

Combining and integrating ideas: Use information from multiple sources to communicate a cohesive understanding of a content-area concept

ELA.4.D1.5

Expressing ideas across subjects: Use writing and other communication forms to organize, refine, and express ideas for learning in different content areas