FOURTH GRADE

Unit Overview
Unit 1

Month
September

Strategy
Monitor/Clarify

Lesson Numbers
L. 1 Because of Winn
Dixie
L. 6- Once Upon a Cool
Motorcycle Dude
L. 17- The Right Dog for
the Job
3 How Tia Lola Came to
Stay
4- Power of WOW
9 Dear Mr. Winston
16 Riding Freedom
11- Screech Owl Who Liked
Television
13- Antarctic Journal
14- Life and Times of the
Ant
15-Ecology for Kids
24- Owen and Mzee
5 Stormalong
12- The Earth Dragon
Awaits
21- The World According to
Humphrey
25- The Fun They Had
2- My Brother Martin
8- Me & Uncle Romie
19 Harvesting Hope
22 I Could Do That

Science
Water Cycle
Weather
Weather Patterns

Unit 2

October

-Activating
Schema/
Making
Connections

Energy, Heat,
Electricity

Black

-Test Taking
Skills/ Review

Test Taking Skills

PSSA Skills/ Review

Motion
Science PSSA
Review
n/a

North
Amer

Unit 3

November/
Decemeber

Determining
Importance

Unit 4

January

-Inferring and
Visualizing

Unit 5

February

-Questioning

Unit 6

African
American
History Month
March

Unit 7

April

Reading &
Writing Poetry

20 Sacagawea
Supplemental Text

Unit 8

May

-Synthesizing

Unit 9

June

Author Study

10- Jose Born to Dance

18 Hercules Quest
23 The Ever-Living Tree
30- Mystery at Reeds Pond
To be determined
(Possibly Jerry Spinelli?)

The Scientific
Method, Studying
Science, Engineering

Plants and Animals

Energy and
Ecosystems
Earth and Space
Properties of Matter
Changes in Matter

n/a

n/a
Review 4th Grade
Material

Socia
Unit 1
The U
State
(geog
gover
patrio
n/a

n/a

n/a

South
Amer
Mid-W
4/22 E
Day
The S
West

Weste
Amer