# Grade 4: English language arts A course roadmap (english-language-arts). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 16 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/nd-ela-grade-4 Part of: [North Dakota: English language arts](https://ai.page/roadmap/nd-ela.md) Goal: North Dakota academic standards: English language arts, Grade 4 ## 1. Fourth Grade · Recognize and use parts of speech in sentences: - [Grammar Terms: Pronouns and Determiners](https://ai.page/c/grammar-terms-pronouns-and-determiners/index.md): Know and use Year 4 grammar terminology including determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, and adverbial - [Comparatives & Superlatives](https://ai.page/c/comparatives-and-superlatives/index.md): Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, choosing correctly between them - [Past, Present and Progressive Tense](https://ai.page/c/past-present-and-progressive-tense/index.md): Use verbs to convey past and present tense correctly and consistently, including the progressive form (e.g., she is drumming, he was shouting), understanding how tense indicates time ## 2. Fourth Grade · Compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. - [Four Types of Sentences](https://ai.page/c/four-types-of-sentences/index.md): Understand and use the four sentence types — statement, question, exclamation, and command — recognising how grammatical patterns indicate sentence function - [Types of Sentences](https://ai.page/c/types-of-sentences/index.md): Choose among and construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal different relationships among ideas, varying sentence patterns deliberately for meaning, interest, and style - [Varying Sentence Structure](https://ai.page/c/varying-sentence-structure/index.md): Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader interest, and style, using techniques such as embedding clauses, using appositives, and varying sentence length ## 3. Fourth Grade · Develop and strengthen writing utilizing the five steps appropriate to the task. - [Sharing and Publishing Your Writing](https://ai.page/c/sharing-and-publishing-your-writing/index.md): Read own writing aloud clearly enough to be heard by peers and the teacher; use digital tools to produce and publish writing - [Revising and editing (age 7+)](https://ai.page/c/revising-and-editing-age-7/index.md): Evaluate and edit writing by assessing effectiveness, proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary for consistency, and proof-reading for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors at Y3-4 level - [Planning Ideas Before Writing](https://ai.page/c/planning-ideas-before-writing/index.md): Plan before writing by saying aloud or noting down what will be written, writing down ideas and key words, and encapsulating ideas sentence by sentence before composing ## 4. Fourth Grade · Analyze a variety of fiction and poetry texts. - [Comparing Books](https://ai.page/c/comparing-books/index.md): Make comparisons within and across books, identifying similarities and differences in themes, characters, settings, and authorial choices across multiple texts - [Character Traits and Motivation](https://ai.page/c/character-traits-and-motivation/index.md): Analyse character traits, motivations, and feelings using text evidence, and distinguish one's own point of view from that of the narrator or characters ## 5. Fourth Grade · Determine the structure of an informational text: - [Structure of information texts](https://ai.page/c/structure-of-information-texts/index.md): Describe the overall structure of an informational text (chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) and explain how the author's chosen structure helps convey information and ideas - [Comparing Structure in Information Texts](https://ai.page/c/comparing-structure-in-information-texts/index.md): Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more informational texts, identifying patterns such as chronology, comparison, cause/effect, or problem/solution ## 6. Fourth Grade · Encode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context: - [Greek and Latin Roots for Word Meaning](https://ai.page/c/greek-and-latin-roots-for-word-meaning/index.md): Use knowledge of Greek and Latin affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and roots as clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, building a bank of common roots and their meanings - [Syllables (age 6+)](https://ai.page/c/syllables-age-6/index.md): Decode words of two or more syllables by breaking them into syllable chunks, applying knowledge that every syllable must contain a vowel sound, and blending the parts together ## 7. Fourth Grade · Decode words using the combined knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology in context and out of context: - [Decoding unfamiliar words](https://ai.page/c/decoding-unfamiliar-words/index.md): Read Y3-4 exception words with unusual spelling-sound correspondences, applying growing knowledge of morphology and etymology to decode unfamiliar exception words ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 16 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Grammar Terms: Pronouns and Determiners has no explanation yet - Comparatives & Superlatives has no explanation yet - Past, Present and Progressive Tense has no explanation yet - Four Types of Sentences has no explanation yet - Types of Sentences has no explanation yet - Varying Sentence Structure has no explanation yet - Sharing and Publishing Your Writing has no explanation yet - Revising and editing (age 7+) has no explanation yet - Planning Ideas Before Writing has no explanation yet - Comparing Books has no explanation yet - Character Traits and Motivation has no explanation yet - Structure of information texts has no explanation yet - Comparing Structure in Information Texts has no explanation yet - Greek and Latin Roots for Word Meaning has no explanation yet - Syllables (age 6+) has no explanation yet - Decoding unfamiliar words has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of North Dakota academic standards: English language arts (https://www.nd.gov/dpi/sites/www/files/documents/Academic%20Support/2023%20ELA%20Content%20Standards%20FINAL.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.