Year in a Glance Mrs.

Meek
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2010-2011 4 Grade - Arlington

August September October November December January February March April May

Launch Café Café strategies; Café strategies; Café strategies; Café strategies; Predict Schema; plot; Analogies;
and Daily 5 – graphic setting, plot, & problem and context clues; outcomes; context clues; Main idea and nonfiction text; Context clues;
Reading

Just right organizers; characters; solution; cause character compare & recognize details; figurative fact and
books, reading main idea; compare & and effect; fact traits; identify contrast; organization of compare and language; opinion;
journals, inferences; contrast; and opinion; narrator; following text; nonfiction contrast characters; narrator; plot
conferences; characters inferences; imaginative details instructions; text prediction
main idea; Personal theme literature identify
Launch Writing
Narrative; Poetry Unit; Finish Realistic
Workshop; Free Write; Tall Tales; Contemporary Descriptive Famous
similes & Fiction; Begin
Writing

Cursive Similes & Organization of figurative Cinderella; writing; Hoosier

Metaphors; metaphors; Realistic Fiction Famous
Writing; Ideas writing; Cursive language; Revise and edit; Review/ Research &
Synonyms, idioms; cursive Hoosier
for Writing Writing cursive writing summaries Critique writing Essay
antonyms, and writing Research
idioms; Unit 4: Indiana
Unit 1:
Social Studies

Grows Unit 5:Indiana in

Indiana’s Land Unit 2: Early Indiana Unit 3: Creating a State Project: Civil War Unit 6: Indiana Famous
Modern Times Government Economics
and People Project: Native Project: Pioneer Bottle People / Today Hoosier
Project: 1900s in Unit Unit
Project: Salt & Americans Project/Pioneer Day Scholastic’s Research
Indiana Timeline
Flour Maps Underground
Railroad