4th Grade Newsletter
What To Expect
NWEA MAP
MAP Growth is a computer adaptive test created by NWEA that kids take two to three times per school year. The results provide teachers with information to help them deliver appropriate content for each student and determine each student’s academic growth over time. The results also set the goals for the school year specifically using the percentile rank. To measure one year's growth, a student should either increase or stay equal to the beginning of the year percentile rank.
Example: Linda scored a 205 which placed her in the 65th percentile. For Linda to make one year's growth and stay equal to the 65th percentile, she will need to increase her score to 217 by the end of the school year.
The NWEA MAP Growth assessment includes multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, and other types of questions. You can view the practice test below.
Teachers can use the score to inform instruction, personalize learning, and monitor the growth of individual students. Principals and administrators can use the scores to see the performance and progress of a grade level, school, or the entire district.
Password: grow
Big Ideas
Reading
- Distinguish how key details in literary and nonfiction/informational texts to discriminate various genres.
- Summarize events or plots (i.e., beginning, middle, end, conflict, and climax) of a story or text.
- Paraphrase the main idea with supporting details in a text.
Example:
Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that sleep is important to learning?
A. Scientists have been trying to answer that question for hundreds of years.
B. The dreams give us a safe way to handle the events of our day.
C. Scientists think that their brains are trying to quickly memorize and organize this new information.
D. She asked her students to think about a problem they had before going to sleep.
Correct Answer: C. This sentence supports the idea that sleep is important to learning by discussing how our brains are able to memorize and organize new information.
Reading & Writing Stamina
Words Correct Read Per Minute: 133-184
Stamina Expectations: Read/Focus on a book without interruption for at least 60 minutes
- Summarize longer stories in greater detail.
- Compare the features of various texts to identify the type of writing (for example, myths, stories, articles, biographies, etc.).
- Develop longer writing pieces through editing and rewriting to create clear and organized work.
- Determine if the author created the piece to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader.
- Identify word parts such as affixes, roots, and stems to determine the meaning of words.
- Write three to four paragraphs for a narrative, opinion, and informative essay.
Big Universe Library
- Click "All Books"
- On the right-hand side, locate and click the purple button "Lexile."
- Start with the 400-499 Lexile and work your way up.
Math
By the end of the school year, your 4th grader should be able to:
- multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit and a 2-digit number by a 2-digit
- divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number
- add and subtract fractions
- represent and compare fractions and decimals
- solve problems involving money and time
- describe, classify and construct polygons
- geometry working with angles, lines and rays
- collect and organize data
The students who have the most success in fourth grade and beyond understand multiplication and their facts. We encourage our incoming fourth graders to practice their multiplication facts daily. Research says students should only take 3-5 seconds to state the product of a multiplication fact which is about 12-20 per minute.
Teacher Graded Assignments (TGA)
Writing TGA
These will be turned in via SeeSaw.
Math TGA (Live in Class Connects)
Work Sample (Live in Class Connects)
Other Fun Links to Try Out
Preparing for the 2020-21 School Year
2020 - 2021 School Calendar
Important Websites
Fourth Grade Teachers
Christi Boggs
405.259.9478 ext 3085
Lori North
405.259.9478 ext
Kelly Cook
405.259.9478 ext 2170