Grade 4 Word Study Curriculum
Family-facing version of the grade 4 Word Study curriculum
Quarterly Overview of Grade 4 Word Study
The objectives and outcomes for each unit are common across FCPS and based on the Virginia Standards of Learning. The pacing by quarter and by week provides an example of how the curriculum can be organized throughout the year. Teacher teams may adjust the pacing or order of units to best meet the needs of students.
Units and Details
Unit 1: Building a Community of Word Learners
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 2: Directional Prefixes and Open Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 3: Directional Prefixes and Closed Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 4: Numerical Prefixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 5: Homophones
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 6: Singular Possessives
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
- Use singular possessives
Unit 7: Vowel Patterns in Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 8: Word Roots with One Form
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 9: Word Roots with Two Forms
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 10: Word Roots with Three Forms
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 11: Suffixes and Spelling Changes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 12: Verb Suffixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 13: Adjective Suffixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Unit 14: Noun Suffixes
Students will be able to:
- Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words
Virginia Department of Education Resources
Assessments
Student assessments are part of the teaching and learning process.
- Teachers give assessments to students on an ongoing basis to
- Check for understanding
- Gather information about students' knowledge or skills.
- Assessments provide information about a child's development of knowledge and skills that can help families and teachers better plan for next steps in instruction.
For testing questions or additional information about how schools and teachers use test results to support student success, families can contact their children's schools.
In Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), fourth grade tests focus on students’ developing content knowledge and skills.