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Standards and Competencies 

Fourth Grade Reading Standards

• The California State Standards are addressed in the research mostly focusing on the reading standards and the 21st century skills.
• Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
• Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean). (See grade 4 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

• Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. 
• ​Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
• Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
• Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
• By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  
• Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and        morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.                    
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
• Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
• Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
• Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary​

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Common Core

21st Century Skills

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TPACK

ISTE Standards for Students

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