Responsive Classroom

Morning Meeting
• Greeting
• Share
• Activity
• Morning Message

Closing Circle
• Positive reflection on the day

Energizers throughout the day

• Songs 2
• Movement activities
 Fictional Reading
• Building Reading Comprehension Strategies: Using the
Café Instructional Method
C = Comprehension (I understand what I read.)
A = Accuracy (I can read the words.)
F = Fluency (I can read accurately, with
expression and understand what I read.) https://readaroundfoxboroug
E = Expand Vocabulary ( I can know, find and
use interesting words.) h.weebly.com/
• Reading Workshop will include:
Read-Alouds
Independent Reading
Guided Reading
Shared Reading
Book Clubs 3
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 The Arc of Story:
Writing Realistic Fiction
• Establish a writing community
Launch writer's workshop expectations
Increase stamina

• Review the Writing Process

Brainstorm ideas
Draft
Revise
Edit
Publish

• Using the Lucy Caulkins Writing Program, students will continue to develop
narrative writing by writing realistic fiction
Find original plot ideas based on events in their lives
Develop three-dimensional characters
Craft engaging scenes

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 Word Work
• Greek and Latin Roots (ant, port, inter, bi, tri, quad ,oct,
dec, cent, tele, photo, phon)

• Prefixes Review (re-, un-, dis-, mis-) and new ones

• Suffixes (-ty, -ity, -ous, -ian, -ness, -able, -ible, -tion, -sion)

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Read Around Foxborough Literacy website
 Units for Beginning of
the Year
• Place Value into the millions

• Addition and Subtracting Multi-digit numbers with

and without Regrouping

• Rounding

• Multi-Digit Multiplication

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 Fourth Grade Math Fact
Fluency
• Fourth Graders are responsible to know all
multiplication and division facts to 12.

• Expectation is to practice math facts each

night for at least 10 minutes.

• Students will be assessed on all 3rd grade

facts to 10. In addition, students need to
know both division and multiplication facts
for: 0, 1, 10 and 5's by late November.

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 North America
• North America Geography and Map Skills

• The Five Regions of the United States

• Ancient Civilizations of the North American

Regions

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 Freckle Science

The students will bring the

school science standards to
life through fun and
educational articles, videos
and activities.

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