Skills assessment for fourth graders
Are you as smart as a fourth grader?
The following are some of the tasks a fourth grader is expected to perform on a first trimester interim assessment text, the results of which are shared with parents along with a percentage grade for each item. Teachers and parents are encouraged to target areas in which a child is lagging.
English Language Arts
-- Decode words in text using phonics and structural analysis through: base words; suffixes; prefixes; compound words.
-- Apply alphabetic order to locate words in resources.
-- Explain the main idea supported by evidence.
-- Make connections to self, other text, and/or the world.
-- Identify and explain the use of; bold--faced words; underlined words; highlighted words; italicized words.
-- Describe a main idea based on evidence.
-- Make connections to self, other text, and/or the world.
-- Edit capitalization for: beginnings of sentences; months; days of the week; proper nouns; initials; titles.
-- Edit sentences for: complete sentences; combining sentences; compound sentences; complex sentences.
Math
-- Place Value: Identify and use place value positions of whole numbers to one million.
-- Comparing and Ordering: Read, write, compare, and order whole numbers; Read and write number words.
-- Counting: Count by multiples of a given number; Explain relationships between skip counting, repeated addition, and multiples.
-- Estimating and Estimation Strategies: Estimate to determine the reasonableness of an answer in mathematical and practical situations.
-- Computation: Add and subtract multi--digit numbers; Multiply and divide multi--digit numbers by a one--digit whole number with regrouping, including monetary amounts as decimals.
-- Solving Problems and Number Theory: Generate and solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems using whole numbers in practical situations.
-- Patterns: Identify, describe, and represent patterns and relationships in the number system, including arithmetic and geometric sequences.
-- Money: Determine totals for monetary amounts in practical situations; Use money notation to add and subtract given monetary amounts.
