4th Grade

Song

Standard(s) Addressed

All Songs

Music Standards

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing
a varied repertoire of music.

Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.

R1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary
Development
Students...apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral...reading.
R1.1 Read narrative and expository text aloud with
grade-appropriate fluency and accuracy and with appropriate
pacing, intonation, and expression.
(Students improve fluency as they read lyrics while singing.)

Thinking While You Read

R2.0 Reading Comprehension
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material.
They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed
(e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making
predictions, comparing information from several sources)

R2.3 Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior
knowledge and ideas presented in the text itself, including
illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and
foreshadowing clues.

R2.5 Compare and contrast information on the same topic after
reading several passages or articles.

Polly Wolly Prefix

W1.7 Spell correctly...prefixes...

The Writer's Song

W1.2b Establish and support a central idea with a topic sentence at
or near the beginning of the first paragraph.
W1.2e Use correct indention.
W1.10 Edit and revise selected drafts to improve coherence and
progression by adding, deleting, consolidating, and rearranging text.
W2.1c Use concrete sensory details.
W1.7 Spell correctly...

Plural Y and F

W1.7 Spell correctly...suffixes...

Parts of Speech

W1.2 Combine short, related sentences with...adjectives, adverbs...

W1.3 Identify and use regular and irregular verbs, adverbs,
prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions in writing and speaking.

Talk-Talk Song

W1.4 Use...commas in direct quotations...
W1.6 Capitalize...the first word in quotations when appropriate.

4 Kinds of Sentences

Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant

R1.2 Apply knowledge of...synonyms, antonyms...to determine the
meaning of words and phrases.

Fiction Doodle Dandy

R3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
Students...distinguish between the structural features of the text and
the literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters).

Angles Song

MG3.5 Know the definitions of a right angle, an acute angle, and an
obtuse angle.

Parallel and Perpendicular

MG3.1 Identify lines that are parallel and perpendicular.

Triangle Bush

MG3.7 Know the definitions of different triangles (e.g., equilateral,
isosceles, scalene) and identify their attributes.

Quadrilateral

MG3.8 Know the definition of different quadrilaterals (e.g., rhombus,
square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid).

Perimeter Area Song

MG1.2 Recognize that rectangles that have the same area can have
different perimeters.

MG1.3 Understand that rectangles that have the same perimeter
can have different areas.

MG1.4 Understand and use formulas to solve problems involving
perimeters and areas of rectangles and squares.

Measurement Song

MG1.1 Measure the area of rectangular shapes by using
appropriate units, such as square centimeter (cm2), square meter
(m2), square kilometer (km2), square inch (in2), square yard (yd2),
or square mile (mi2).

All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)

NS3.3 Solve problems involving multiplication of multidigit numbers
by two-digit numbers.
NS3.4 Solve problems involving division of multidigit numbers by
one-digit numbers.
NS4.1 Understand that many whole numbers break down in
different ways (e.g., 12 = 4 x 3 = 2 x 6 = 2 x 2 x 3).
NS4.2 Know that numbers such as 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 do not have
any factors except 1 and themselves and that such numbers are
called prime numbers.