St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 
Regional Catholic School

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Fourth graders will build comprehension skills by reading many different passages, learning and applying context clues and  reading deeply for  comprehension. 

The main skills your child will master are: 

• Summarizing the main topic of a text and the key supporting details.
• Pointing out the evidence used to explain or support what an author’s writing about.
• Giving in-depth descriptions of characters, setting, and events in a story.
• Explaining events, procedures, or a timeline of historical events based on written texts.
• Interpreting information from charts, images, videos, time lines, and diagrams and explaining how it fits with the information your child has read.

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Writing skills will continue to be polished and built upon this year. A fourth grade language arts curriculum will help students learn and master tons of new writing concepts including the following:

• Use interjections, prepositions and conjunctions for more descriptive and elaborate writing
• Understand each of the five stages of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
• Write a narrative complete with an event, narrator and characters

Fourth grade language arts activities should provide students with plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new grammar skills in order to enhance their writing and communication. Below are some of the grammar goals and objectives that a 5th grade language arts curriculum should help your child achieve.

• Use punctuation in titles correctly with proper capitalization and quotation marks.
• Use correlative conjunctions correctly in a sentence: not only/but also, either/or, neither/nor
• Use perfect verb tense correctly and understand how they convey time of events.

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Grade 4 Social Studies is focused on New York State and local communities and their change over time, incorporating the study of geography, history, economics, and government.

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Grade 4 will learn various Bible Stories, the 10 Commandments, Beatitudes, Rosary, Prayers, Review Sacraments and Holy Days, Virtues and Saints.
Our Grade Saint that we will learn about is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the territories of the United States and Canada, she is popularly venerated as a patroness of ecology.