The
Orange
Book 4th Grade Program Overview
The integrated language approach has
the benefits of all teaching methods. By working with pieces of real literature, you focus
on English grammar, reading, vocabulary, spelling, writing, thinking skills, and
penmanship and more. Your student has the best advantage for learning skills in this
effective and lasting manner.
Book Studies
Four Book Studies contained in this curriculum encourage students in vocabulary
building, reading for content, and comprehension. Exciting activities bring each story to
life and give your student many opportunities to be creative. Each Book Study
is conveniently placed prior to the Everyday Words lessons which use the
literature passages from the book. LLATL allows for flexibility in how you use the Book
Study units depending on your student's individual reading and comprehension
skills. The Book Study units are provided for your student's enjoyment of
good literature. Each story has a convenient summary, listed with the readability
level.
Everyday Words
Each lesson found in this section contains a passage of literature and learning
activities. These activities are designed to help your student learn language skills
in their context while developing writing and thinking skills. An emphasis is placed
on English grammar skills appropriate for this grade level. In each lessons, the
student will either copy the passage or write it from dictation.
Copying material is a very powerful learning activity. It trains a student to look
for details, strive for accuracy, and learn to write. Using your voice to stress
pauses and indicate punctuation marks during lessons using dictation teaches the student
important listening skills, sentencing structure, and punctuation.
Research Unit
This unit will be preceded by Preparation for Research Unit. A
study of the state the student lives in provides a basis for study in various types of
research. For example, the student will demonstrate skills in fact gathering,
note-taking, writing, and more. At this level, the student is taught only the
process of writing a bibliography. Bibliographies can be very involved and
complicated, so at this grade level we suggest allowing your student to learn a simplified
bibliography. It will be taught again in a higher level book.
Journal Writing Unit
The unit begins with instruction on journal writing. It expands to include sign and
map making, photo albums, letters, perspective writing, and more.
Poetry Unit
By copying, creating, and illustrating various types of poetry, your student will gain an
understanding and appreciation of this form of literary art. The unit concludes with
a written and oral presentation.
Newspaper Unit
This unit uses the newspaper as a basis for studying research, paragraph writing,
studies in advertisement, vocabulary, and much more.
Story Writing and Book Making Unit
The simple, clear instructions for book binding are enhanced with easy-to-follow
diagrams. This unit contains simple writing instructions on story writing. The
unit can be used with several of the other units or alone. It can be referred to as
needed throughout the program
Review Activities
Review Activities are found directly after each Everyday Words section.
New skills taught in each lesson are included in the Review Activities.
It is not necessary to do each activity. Simply choose the skills your
student needs to review.
Assessments
Following each Everyday Words section, you will find an assessment.
An I C.A.N. Assessment has been created for each Book Study and Unit.
You may use these assessments to grade your student accordingly.
Skills Index
The Language Arts Skills Index is located in the back of the Teacher's Book.
To ensure that skills commonly held appropriate for this grade level instruction
were adequately covered, much research was involved in the writing of this curriculum.
This information was primarily gleaned from these sources:
You CAN Teach Your Child Successfully by Ruth Beechick
Teaching Children: A curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level
Through Sixth Grade by Diane Lopez
If your child has a particularly strong or weak area, you can easily locate lessons that
will address specific skills using the Skills Index.
Enrichment Activities
In each lesson you will find the treasure chest icon for the Enrichment
Activities. This is your cue to look for the activity located in the Student
Activity Book where they are listed in full. Answers to these activities are
found in the back of the Teacher's Book. While optional, these activities
develop thinking and reasoning skills necessary for higher level learning.
Bibliography
Next you will find the bibliography. This will give you all the
information you need to locate the books quoted in the lessons. The selection
includes wonderful books that we hope your family will read and enjoy.
Materials To Use
To use the program you will need basic materials such as pencils, paper, colored
pencils, construction paper, etc. Additional materials are listed at the beginning of each
lesson. Frequently in the lessons, the student must find a
book he is familiar with, so children's books are needed from time to time.
Reference books, such as a dictionary and thesaurus, will be used as well as
encyclopedias. Availability of these materials in either the home or library is
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| The Orange Book is the perfect combination of units and
dictation exercises
It includes all
the language skills: phonics, reading, and spelling (suggested lists included), English
grammar, higher order reasoning skills and creative writing in a teacher friendly format.
For your convenience, Teacher Notes and answers are right in the margin of the
teacher book. The Skills Index provides an easy skills reference.
In the Everyday Words section
you will find dictation, grammar exercises, Spelling Tips, creative writing, and
more. Review Activities follow most lessons and Assessments allow handy
progression checks for teachers.
Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading
comprehension, and exciting activities.
Each Unit provides the
opportunity for your student to apply his skills through research, creative writing,
journal writing, etc.
All literature passages are contained in The Orange Book, but the passage may
spark your student's interest to read the book. These books may be obtained through your
library or purchased from bookstores or catalogs. |
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| Scope
and Sequence Spelling
• adding suffixes to words ending in: silent e,y,ch,sh,s,z,x • copy words •
how to study words • spelling tips: ch,dge,ear,er,ie,ir,ou,ow,sh, tch,ur • words
ending with: ss,ff,zz • vowel rules
Reading
• a Book Study Unit on: Boxcar Children, Wright Brothers, Benjamin Franklin, The Sign
of the Beaver • antonyms • autobiography • biography • cause and
effect • character sketch • comprehension • discussion of content •
homonyms • parts of a story • poetry • recalling detail • silent /
oral reading • similes • syllables • synonyms • vocabulary
English Grammar
• abbreviations • action verbs • adjectives • adjectives in comparison
• adverbs • antecedents • antonyms • apostrophes • articles
• base or root words • capitalization • commas • common nouns •
complete sentences • complete subjects • compound sentences • compound
subjects • compound verbs • conjunctions • contraction • dates •
exclamation marks • fragment • helping verbs • homonyms • initials
• interjections • irregular verbs • nouns • periods • plural
nouns • plural possessive nouns • predicate • preposition •
prepositional phrase • pronouns • proper nouns • question marks •
quotations • simple subjects • singular nouns • singular possessive nouns
• suffixes • title of a book • verbs • verb phrases • verb tenses
Composition
• advertisements • bibliography • book making • business letter •
character sketch • copying literature • descriptive writing • dialogue
• editing • envelopes • first person • friendly letter •
indention • journals • list writing • map making • newsletter •
note taking • paragraph • poetry • report writing • sentences •
sentence types • story writing • summary • writing an ad • writing
directions • writing from dictation
Research and Study Skills
• advertisements • alphabetical order • atlas • decision making •
dictionary • encyclopedia • following directions • guide words •
interview • library • map study • newspaper • note-taking • parts
of a book • poetry memorization • research skills • table of contents
• thesaurus
Higher Order Thinking Skills
• compare and contrast • decision making • fact and opinion •
following directions • sequencing events • decision making • memorization
Creative Expression
• book making • illustrating poetry • recitation • rhyme • rhythm
• story writing • writing an ad • writing poetry— cinquain, concrete,
couplet, haiku, limerick, prose
Penmanship
• copying passages • writing final drafts |
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