Listening - Grade 4
WASL 4 Listening Learning Targets Learning Target LI - Listen for, identifies, and explains main idea, details, and meaning.
Learning Target CH - Check for understanding (summarizes, paraphrases, asks questions to clarify content and meaning).
Reading - Grade 4
Reading Purposes, Strands, and Learning Targets
Purpose I Reading for Literary Experience (Fiction)
Strand 1: Comprehends important ideas and details.
Learning Target 1 - Demonstrate understanding of theme or message and supportive details.
Learning Target 2- Summarize with evidence from the reading.
Learning Target 3 - Make inferences or predictions based on the reading.
Learning Target 4 - Interpret vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text.
Learning Target 5 - Order steps, sequence, or parts from the reading.
Strand 2: Analyzes, interprets, and thinks critically.
Strand 2a Analyzes and interprets.
Learning Target 6 - Demonstrate understanding of literary elements (genres; story elements, such as plot, character, setting; stylistic devices) and graphic elements/illustrations.
Learning Target 7 - Compare and contrast elements of text.
Learning Target 8 - Make connections within and among texts.
Strand 2b Thinks critically.
Learning Target 9 - Analyze author¹s purpose and evaluates effectiveness for different audiences.
Learning Target 10 - Extend information beyond text (apply information, give a response to reading, express insight gained from reading).
Purpose II Reading to Learn New Information and Reading to Perform a Task (Nonfiction)
Strand 3: Comprehends important ideas and details.
Learning Target 11 - Demonstrate understanding of major ideas and supportive details.
Learning Target 12 - Summarize with evidence from the reading.
Learning Target 13 - Make inferences or predictions based on the reading.
Learning Target 14 - Interpret vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text.
Learning Target 15 - Order steps, sequence, or parts from the reading.
Strand 4: Analyzes, interprets, and thinks critically.
Strand 4a Analyzes and interprets.
Learning Target 16 - Demonstrate understanding of text features (titles, headings, and other information divisions, table of contents, captions) and graphic features.
Learning Target 17 - Compare and contrast information presented.
Learning Target 18 - Make connections within and among texts.
Strand 4b Thinks critically.
Learning Target 19 - Analyze author¹s purpose (including distinguishing between fact and opinion) and evaluate effectiveness for different audiences.
Learning Target 20 - Extend information beyond text (apply information, give a response to reading, express insight gained from reading).