Manitoba
Skills available for Manitoba grade 4 English language arts curriculum
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4 Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
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4.1 Generate and Focus
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4.1.1 Focus a topic for oral, written, and visual texts using a variety of strategies [such as jotting point-form notes, mind mapping, developing story frames…].
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4.1.2 Choose from a variety of favourite forms and experiment with modeled forms [such as narrative and descriptive stories, plays, graphs…] for various audiences and purposes.
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4.1.3 Determine key ideas and organize appropriate supporting details in own oral, written, and visual texts.
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4.2 Enhance and Improve
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4.2.1 Share own stories and creations in various ways with peers; give support and offer feedback to peers using pre-established criteria when responding to own and others' creations.
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4.2.2 Revise to create an interesting impression and check for sequence of ideas.
- Identify similes and metaphors (4-F.1)
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors (4-F.2)
- Choose the synonym (4-X.1)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 (4-AA.1)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 (4-AA.2)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 (4-AA.3)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 (4-AA.4)
- Describe the difference between related words (4-BB.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (4-BB.2)
- Use thesaurus entries (4-DD.8)
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4.2.3 Write legibly, with increasing speed, using a handwriting style that is consistent in alignment, shape, slant, and spacing; experiment with the use of templates, formatting, and familiar software when composing and revising.
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4.2.4 Choose descriptive language and sentence patterns to clarify and enhance ideas.
- Identify similes and metaphors (4-F.1)
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors (4-F.2)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (4-Q.2)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (4-Q.3)
- Form and use compound words (4-V.2)
- Choose the synonym (4-X.1)
- Which sentence has the same meaning? (4-X.2)
- Find synonyms in context (4-X.3)
- Choose the antonym (4-X.4)
- Which sentence uses an antonym? (4-X.5)
- Find antonyms in context (4-X.6)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 (4-AA.1)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 (4-AA.2)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 (4-AA.3)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 (4-AA.4)
- Describe the difference between related words (4-BB.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (4-BB.2)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (4-EE.1)
- Identify the complete subject of a sentence (4-EE.2)
- Identify the complete predicate of a sentence (4-EE.3)
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence (4-EE.4)
- Is the sentence simple or compound? (4-EE.8)
- Identify personal pronouns (4-GG.1)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (4-GG.2)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (4-GG.3)
- Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (4-GG.4)
- Identify possessive pronouns (4-GG.5)
- Use possessive pronouns (4-GG.6)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (4-GG.7)
- Use reflexive pronouns (4-GG.8)
- Identify relative pronouns (4-GG.9)
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom (4-GG.10)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (4-GG.11)
- Use action verbs (4-HH.1)
- Identify action verbs (4-HH.2)
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (4-HH.3)
- What does the modal verb show? (4-HH.4)
- Use the correct modal verb (4-HH.5)
- Is the subject singular or plural? (4-II.1)
- Use the correct subject or verb (4-II.2)
- Pronoun-verb agreement (4-II.3)
- Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects (4-II.4)
- Which sentence is in the regular past tense? (4-JJ.1)
- Identify verbs in the regular past tense (4-JJ.2)
- Form and use the regular past tense (4-JJ.3)
- Identify the irregular past tense (4-JJ.4)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (4-JJ.5)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (4-JJ.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (4-JJ.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (4-JJ.8)
- To be: use the correct form (4-JJ.9)
- To have: use the correct form (4-JJ.10)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (4-JJ.11)
- Change the sentence to future tense (4-JJ.12)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (4-JJ.13)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (4-JJ.14)
- Choose between the past tense and past participle (4-JJ.15)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (4-JJ.16)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (4-JJ.17)
- Use the correct article: a or an (4-KK.1)
- Use the correct article: a, an or the (4-KK.2)
- Identify articles (4-KK.3)
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (4-LL.1)
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun (4-LL.2)
- Identify adjectives (4-LL.3)
- Order adjectives (4-LL.4)
- Does the adverb tell you how, when or where? (4-LL.5)
- Identify adverbs (4-LL.6)
- Use relative adverbs (4-LL.7)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (4-LL.8)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (4-LL.9)
- Use adjectives to compare (4-LL.10)
- Spell adjectives that compare (4-LL.11)
- Use adjectives with more and most (4-LL.12)
- Use adverbs to compare (4-LL.13)
- Identify prepositions (4-MM.1)
- Identify prepositions and their objects (4-MM.2)
- Identify prepositional phrases (4-MM.3)
- Prepositions: review (4-MM.4)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (4-NN.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (4-NN.2)
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4.2.5 Prepare organized compositions and reports using sound effects and visuals [such as graphs, charts, diagrams...] that engage the audience.
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4.3 Attend to Conventions
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4.3.1 Edit for complete sentences and appropriate use of statements, questions, and exclamations.
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4.3.2 Know and apply spelling conventions using a variety of strategies [including phonics, structural analysis, syllabication, and visual memory] and resources [such as dictionaries, spell-check functions, classroom resources...] and spelling patterns when editing and proofreading.
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (4-T.1)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (4-T.2)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (4-T.3)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (4-T.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness (4-T.5)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment (4-T.6)
- Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review (4-T.7)
- Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review (4-T.8)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (4-U.2)
- Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (4-U.3)
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (4-U.4)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (4-U.5)
- Form compound words (4-V.1)
- Form and use compound words (4-V.2)
- Homophones with pictures (4-Y.1)
- Identify homophones (4-Y.2)
- Use the correct homophone (4-Y.3)
- Use guide words (4-DD.5)
- Use dictionary entries (4-DD.6)
- Use dictionary definitions (4-DD.7)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (4-FF.5)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (4-FF.6)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves (4-FF.7)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves (4-FF.8)
- Form and use irregular plurals (4-FF.10)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (4-FF.12)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (4-FF.13)
- Form and use the regular past tense (4-JJ.3)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (4-JJ.5)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (4-JJ.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (4-JJ.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (4-JJ.8)
- Spell adjectives that compare (4-LL.11)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (4-OO.1)
- Contractions with "not" (4-OO.2)
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4.3.3 Know and use conventions of basic capitalization and punctuation [including commas in series and quotation marks] when editing and proofreading.
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (4-EE.1)
- Identify common and proper nouns (4-FF.4)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (4-FF.11)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (4-FF.12)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (4-FF.13)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (4-OO.1)
- Contractions with "not" (4-OO.2)
- Commas with dates (4-PP.1)
- Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words (4-PP.2)
- Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect (4-QQ.1)
- Capitalizing days, months and holidays (4-QQ.2)
- Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features (4-QQ.3)
- Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods and documents (4-QQ.4)
- Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities and languages (4-QQ.5)
- Greetings and closings of letters (4-RR.1)
- Capitalizing titles (4-RR.2)
- Formatting and capitalizing titles (4-RR.4)
- Punctuating dialogue (4-RR.5)
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4.4 Present and Share
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4.4.1 Prepare and share information on a topic using print and non-print aids to engage and inform a familiar audience.
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4.4.2 Describe and explain information and ideas to a particular audience; select, use, and monitor appropriate volume, intonation, and non-verbal cues.
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4.4.3 Demonstrate appropriate audience behaviours [such as listening to opposing opinions, disagreeing respectfully, expressing opinions...].
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