Proficient in Reading:
Elementary 27% | Middle 27% | High 28%
Distinguished in Reading:
Elementary 17% | Middle 24% | High 18%
Proficient in Math:
Elementary 28% | Middle 27% | High 30%
Distinguished in Math:
Elementary 11% | Middle 20% | High 18%
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School Name
Bowling Green Independent School District

FOURTH GRADE

Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all fourth grade students to be successful when they advance to fifth grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

READING

  • Reads and correctly spells multisyllabic words encountered in grade-level texts.

  • Reads and understands grade level text with ease, self-correcting as needed.

  • Use details and examples from a text to explain what it says and make inferences.

  • Analyzes the theme of a text using evidence.

  • Describe story elements (characters, setting, and events) and cites details to support analysis.

  • Explains how figurative language shapes the meaning of text.

  • Explain how print and non-print information contributes to an understanding of the text.

  • Compare and contrast the themes across two or more pieces of literature.

  • Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

  • Use details and examples from a text to explain what it says and make inferences.

  • Analyzes central ideas and cites supporting evidence.

  • Explains how words and phrases shape the meaning of text.

  • Describes how the structure of non-fiction text helps with understanding the information.

  • Explains how an author supports claims with reasons and evidence.

  • Compares and contrasts two texts on the same topic.

  • Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

HANDWRITING

  • Uses cursive to neatly form original sentences and their name.

  • Reads and understands cursive writing of others.

WRITING AND COMPOSITION

  • Composes organized opinion pieces that support a perspective with reasons, facts, and details.

  • Composes informational pieces that introduce a topic, organize related information into paragraphs and sections, and develop the topic with precise facts, details, and explanations.

  • Composes narratives that establish a situation, organize events, and develop experiences with dialogue, description, and sensory details.

  • Uses adjectives and adverbs correctly.

  • Uses conjunctions to connect ideas, phrases, and words.

  • Produces simple, compound, and complex sentences.

  • Uses correct capitalization, punctuation, and possessives in writing.

MATH

  • Interprets and demonstrates multiplication expressions using models.

  • Solves word problems involving multiplication or division within 100 using drawings and equations.

  • Multiplies within 100.

  • Divides within 100.

  • Solves two step word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

  • Rounds whole numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

  • Adds within 1,000.

  • Subtracts within 1,000.

  • Divides a whole into equal parts to represent a fraction.

  • Finds and shows a fraction on a number line.

  • Recognizes fractions that are equal in size as equivalent fractions.

  • Compares fractions using the <, >, = symbols.

  • Solves word problems involving time.

  • Creates and reads scaled graphs.

  • Finds the area of a figure.

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Asks compelling questions about interactions between groups.

  • Analyzes a variety of sources reporting on the same event.

  • Writes a detailed answer to a question using evidence from a text or other sources.

  • Writes an argument with reasons and evidence to address a local, regional or global problem.

SCIENCE

  • Conducts investigations of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object.

  • Asks questions about electric and magnetic interactions.

  • Creates and analyzes life cycle models.

  • Explains how animals form groups and work together to survive.

  • Analyzes characteristics of organisms to understand some traits are inherited and some are learned.

  • Understands trait variation of species provide advantages for survival.

  • Designs graphs to show weather conditions.

  • Describes climates in different regions of the world.

  • Makes a claim about a solution that reduces the impact of severe weather.