Fourth Grade ELA IEP Goals by Skill

Reading strategies

• Main idea
  • Use key details to determine the main idea
  • Use key details to determine the main idea
  • Determine the main idea of a passage
  • Determine the main idea of a passage
  • Determine the main idea of a passage
  • Combine main ideas from two texts
• Author's purpose
  • Identify the purpose of a text
• Text structure
  • Determine the order of events in informational texts
  • Compare and contrast in informational texts
  • Match causes and effects in informational texts
  • Match problems with their solutions
  • Identify text structures
• Sensory details
  • Identify sensory details
• Literary devices
  • Similes and metaphors with pictures
  • Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
  • Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
  • Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
  • Read poetry
  • Read drama
• Point of view
  • Identify the narrative point of view
  • Distinguish characters' points of view
  • Compare information from two texts
• Inference
  • Draw inferences from a text
  • Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
  • Compare and contrast characters
  • Make predictions about a story
• Analyzing literature
• Analyzing informational texts
• Visual elements
  • Compare mythological illustrations
  • Read graphic organizers
• Poetry elements
  • Label the rhyme scheme
  • Identify elements of poetry
• Theme
  • Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
• Story elements
  • Identify story elements
• Text features
  • Select and use text features

Writing strategies

• Organizing writing
  • Put the sentences in order
  • Order items from most general to most specific
  • Organize information by main idea
• Introductions and conclusions
  • Choose the best topic sentence
  • Choose the best concluding sentence
• Developing and supporting arguments
  • Distinguish facts from opinions
  • Identify an author's statement of opinion
  • Choose reasons to support an opinion
  • Identify supporting details in literary texts
  • Identify supporting details in informational texts
  • Identify and correct plagiarism
• Descriptive details
  • Show character emotions and traits
  • Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
  • Add imagery to stories
• Sentence variety
• Editing and revising
• Summarizing
  • Summarize a story
• Linking words
  • Identify time-order words
  • Use coordinating conjunctions
  • Use subordinating conjunctions
  • Choose the best transition

Vocabulary

• Prefixes and suffixes
  • Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-
  • Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
  • Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
  • Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
  • Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
• Greek and Latin roots
• Compound words
• Categories
• Synonyms and antonyms
  • Choose the synonym
  • Find synonyms in context
  • Choose the antonym
  • Find antonyms in context
• Homophones
  • Homophones with pictures
  • Identify homophones
  • Use the correct homophone
• Multiple-meaning words
  • Which definition matches the sentence?
  • Which sentence matches the definition?
• Idioms and adages
  • Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
  • Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1
  • Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2
• Shades of meaning
  • Describe the difference between related words
  • Positive and negative connotation
• Context clues
  • Find words using context
  • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word
  • Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
  • Use academic vocabulary in context
• Reference skills
  • Use guide words
  • Use dictionary entries
  • Use dictionary definitions
  • Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

• Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
  • Determine is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory
  • Identify the complete subject of a sentence
  • Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
  • Determine is it a complete sentence or a fragment
  • Determine is it a complete sentence or a run-on
  • Create compound sentences
• Nouns
  • Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
  • Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
  • Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves
• Pronouns
  • Identify relative pronouns
• Verb types
  • Determine what does the modal verb show
  • Use the correct modal verb
• Subject-verb agreement
• Verb tense
  • Use the progressive verb tenses
  • Form the progressive verb tenses
• Articles
• Adjectives and adverbs
  • Order adjectives
• Prepositions
  • Identify prepositions
• Conjunctions
  • Identify coordinating conjunctions
• Contractions
• Commas
• Capitalization
  • Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect
  • Capitalizing days, months, and holidays
  • Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features
  • Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages
• Abbreviations
• Formatting
  • Punctuating dialogue