Grade 4 Unpacking
Grade 4 Unpacking
Grade 4 Unpacking
For the new Common Core State Standards that will be effective in all North Carolina schools in the 2012-13 school year
This document is designed to help North Carolina educators teach the ELA Common Core State Standards.
NCDPI staff are continually updating and improving these tools to better serve teachers.
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mark direct speech and quotations from materials for spelling as needed.
a text.
c. Use a comma before a coordinating
conjunction in a compound sentence.
d. Spell grade-appropriate words
correctly, consulting references as
needed.
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by relating them to their opposites Tier One words are the words of everyday
(antonyms) and to words with similar speech usually learned in the early grades,
but not identical meanings (synonyms). albeit not at the same rate by all children.
6. Acquire and use accurately a range of 6. Acquire and use accurately grade-
general academic and domain-specific appropriate general academic and domain- General academic vocabulary (Tier 2)
words and phrases sufficient for reading, specific words and phrases, including those words appear in all sorts of texts;
writing, speaking, and listening at the that signal precise actions, emotions, or informational, technical texts, and literary
college and career readiness level; states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, texts.
demonstrate independence in gathering stammered) and that are basic to a
vocabulary knowledge when encountering particular topic (e.g., wildlife, Domain-specific vocabulary (Tier 3)
an unknown term important to conservation, and endangered when words are specific to a domain or field of
comprehension or expression. discussing animal preservation). study and key to understanding a new
concept within a text. Because of their
specificity and close ties to content
knowledge, Tier Three words are far more
common in informational texts than in
literature.
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