Grade 4 - Conventions & Vocabulary - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 4 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 4 Language Conventions and Vocabulary unit in the Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing ideas: Vocabulary, Conventions, and Fluency (ELA). The 449 pages teach the skills and procedures in these four curriculum areas.

Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach consonant clusters as well as vowel teams. Along with these Science of Reading principles, we have weaved in the skills and procedures students in grade 4 need to learn while working with these word lists.

Included in this resource are the organizing ideas below:

Vocabulary – figurative language, affixes (prefixes and suffixes), tier 2 and tier 3 words, synonyms, antonyms, homographs, homophones, and homonyms as well as word origins.

Fluency – developing automaticity in reading complex words, phrases, and continuous text. Students will read with appropriate stress on words, pausing, phrasing, intonation, and use of punctuation.

Conventions – sentence types, contractions, apostrophes, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization skills.

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week, and what prefixes/suffixes/letter blends will be covered.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Sentence structure: complete, fragments, compound, types, and clauses.
• Comprehensive parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.
• Grammar construction: subject-verb agreement, coordinating conjunctions, and independent/dependent clauses.
• Suffixes <er>, <es>, <r>, <ly>, <ing>, <ily>, <able>, <ible>, <ar>, <less> and more.
• Prefixes <dis>, <mis>, <non>, <pre>, <post>, <anti>, <auto>, <bio>, <inter>, <micro> and more.
• Vocabulary development: morphemes, prefixes, suffixes, and word origins.
• Punctuation mastery: commas, interjections, and end-of-sentence rules.
• Writing enhancement: cursive, personification, idioms, and analogies.
• Capitalization rules for proper nouns, proper adjectives, and abbreviations.
• Verb tense proficiency: perfect verb tense, interrogative, imperative, and idiomatic expressions.
• Sentence development: complex, compound-complex sentences, and correcting run-ons.
• Decoding strategies: syllable splitting and chunking for reading fluency.
• Figurative language depth: similes, metaphors, analogy, onomatopoeia, oxymorons, and personification.
• Pronoun use: adjectives, subjects, objects, and possessive constructions.
• Vocabulary precision: homophones, homonyms, antonyms, and silent letters.
• Literary devices: alliteration, ellipsis, and determiners.
• Spelling focus: commonly misspelled words, I before E rules, and exceptions.
• Quotation use in dialogue, capitalization, and comparison degrees.
• Vocabulary context clues for advanced word meaning deduction.
• Apostrophe application in contractions and possessives.
• Introducing lists with commas and colons effectively.
• Active and passive voice differentiation and use.
• Pronunciation and spelling: silent letters and challenging phonetic patterns.
• Analogy comprehension and creation for enriched understanding.
• Fluency practices: progressive sentence complexity for better comprehension.
• Quotation rules: dialogue integration and proper punctuation.
• Synonym spectrum: exact versus near-synonyms identification and use.
• Figurative versus literal language recognition and usage.
• Pronouns in depth: roles in sentences and advanced grammar.
• Punctuation for clarity: commas in series and direct address.
• Capitalization nuances in quotations and proper nouns.
• Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 4 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit, Grade 4, New 2023 Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.