Ontario Grade 4 Language, Math, Science, Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP bundle includes everything you need to teach the NEW 2023 Grade 4 Language Curriculum, the NEW 2020 Grade 4 Math Curriculum and the NEW 2022 Grade 4 Science Curriculum (STEM included!).

Foundations of Language Strand. This resource covers all expectations and learning goals in the Grade 4, 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum – Foundations of Language Strand.

There are 404 activity sheets that align perfectly to cover all expectations in the NEW Ontario 2023 Language Curriculum. Included are 30 weeks of activities that cover the curriculum strategically, allowing teachers to use spiral teaching to ensure they are covering the entire curriculum.

With the focus of the new curriculum on explicit teaching of vocabulary (tier 2 words) and Science of Reading methods, we have created 30 word lists for students to study. Your students will learn a new suffix/prefix each week, as well as new words to add to their vocabulary.

Included in this unit are the overall expectations:

B1: Oral and Non-Verbal Communication – over 10 activities/assignments to cover all specific expectations

B2: Language Foundations for Reading and Writing – included in the weekly activities, students will perform word work to improve their spelling, reading strategies, fluency, and vocabulary.

B3: Language Conventions for Reading and Writing – included in the weekly activities, students will learn about parts of speech, grammar, capitalization and punctuation.

We have also covered Strand A in Language - Literacy Connections and Applications. We have included curriculum connections for all our activities, so you can see exactly what you will be covering by completing each activity. We know this will help when writing report cards!

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:

• Complete sentences versus fragments
• Simple versus compound sentences
• Listening strategies
• Suffixes: -s, -ing, -ed, -er, -ize, -ly, -est, -ful, -less, -tion, -sion, -ness, -ment, and many more
• Prefixes: sub-, super-, ex-, in-, inter-, bio-, auto-, multi-, anti-, post-, pre-, dis-, non-, and many more
• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Editing work – using capital letters
• Fun weekly word work – word search, crosswords, creating words, coding, word scrambles, cursive writing
• Independent and dependent clauses
• Coordinating conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Relative pronouns
• Perfect verb tense
• Capitalization of proper nouns and proper adjectives
• Paraphrasing and restating listening strategy
• Use of commas in direct address
• Decoding strategies – syllable splitting and chunking
• Complex sentences and compound-complex sentences
• Activity – silent movie summaries
• Use of apostrophes in possessives
• End of sentence punctuation
• Figures of speech – similes, metaphors, analogies, alliteration, personification, ellipses, idioms
• Homophones, homonyms, antonyms, synonyms
• Spelling – commonly misspelled words
• Commas in a list, colons in a list
• Spelling – silent letters and i before e rule
• Fluency readings
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts Strand. This resource covers all expectations and learning goals in the Grade 4, 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum – Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts Strand.

There are 286 activity sheets that are aligned to cover all expectations in the NEW Ontario 2023 Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the overall and specific expectations are met.

This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars for students to formulate success criteria so they can improve their writing quality. Moreover, we’ve chunked the progressions involved with producing quality writing to ensure all students can progress.

Included in this unit are the overall expectations:

D1. Developing Ideas and Organizing Content: hands-on activities, group work, and many independent work opportunities to develop these skills

D2. Creating Texts – 13 different assignments with planning pages included to scaffold student learning

D3. Publishing, Presenting, and Reflecting – group work revision activities, success criteria, and rubrics as well as opportunities for students to present and reflect on their work.

We have also covered Strand A in Language - Literacy Connections and Applications. We have included curriculum connections for all our activities, so you can see exactly what you will be covering by completing each activity. We know this will help you when writing report cards!

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Personal voice in writing
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body, conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in our narratives – dialogue
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Understanding persuasive writing
• Activity – Being Persuasive
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Report writing – a quick guide
• Activity – Idea Factory
• Writing reports – using the facts provided to organize a report
• How to research effectively
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Report Writing – writing strong introductions and conclusions
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, rhyming poems
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Cursive writing – Limerick
• Examining bias in reviews
• Practicing summaries in book review writing
• Publishing a book review
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Biographies – cross curricular connections: Thomas Edison (lightbulb) and Thanadelthur (social studies)
• How to cite where we find research – bibliography
• Answer pages for all activities

New Ontario 2023 Language Curriculum – Reading Comprehension Strand. This resource covers all expectations and learning goals in the Grade 4, 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum – Reading Comprehension Strand.

There are 252 activity sheets that align to cover all expectations in the NEW Ontario 2023 Language Curriculum. These activities can be used on their own, or to compliment the Composition Strand. Students will learn each of the expectations as they progress through the different text forms that follow the same pattern as the Composition unit.

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this unit are the overall expectations:

C1. Knowledge about Texts – taught using 10 different text forms, including narratives, cultural texts, and reports.

C2. Comprehension Strategies – we’ve included a stand-alone independent reading comprehension package (BINGO and other responses), and these strategies are taught throughout the 252-page unit.

C3. Critical Thinking in Literacy – taught throughout the resource (biases, inferences, literary devices, etc.)

We have also covered Strand A in Language - Literacy Connections and Applications. We have included curriculum connections for all our activities, so you can see exactly what you will be covering by completing each activity. We know this will help when writing report cards!

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

Some of the concepts covered:

• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making global and local inferences, visualizing
• Cultural text forms – creation stories and songs
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, bias
• Implicit and explicit perspectives in letter writing
• Voice in writing – use of cohesive ties and different sentence structures
• Narratives – use of literary devices: personification and anthropomorphism
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Indigenous storytelling – norms, sports, values, artifacts, and music
• Cross-curricular connections – stories related to themes in science and social studies (Printing Press)
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Finding implicit and explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – bold words, hyperlinks, etc.
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Activity – group work summarizing
• Use of graphs, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry
• Assignment – finding poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Bias in book reviews
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Spatial order in graphic texts
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• How images, graphics, and visuals contribute to biographies
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary to understand a biography
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 4 - New Ontario Math Curriculum 2020 – This bundle covers all expectations in the Grade 4 - New Ontario Math Curriculum. Included are 1992 activity sheets for your students to learn the overall and specific expectations outlined by the Ministry of Education.

Check out each of the strands below to learn more about the resources included in this bundle.

Strand B - Number (Number Sense and Operations)

• Composing and decomposing whole numbers to 10 000
• Using base ten blocks to represent numbers
• Counting money as base ten reinforcement ($100, $10, $1)
• Comparing and ordering numbers to 10 000
• Rounding numbers nearest 100 and nearest 1000
• Counting to ten by halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eights, and tenths
• Fair sharing between 2,3, and 4 sharers
• Comparing, ordering and adding decimals tenths
• Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals
• Round decimals to the nearest whole number
• Equivalent fractions
• Number line addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
• Fact Families – Relationship between multiplication and division
• Multiplication and division facts – 1 through 10
• Addition mental math strategies (adding in chunks, counting on, doubling, and more)
• Subtraction mental math strategies (adding up, counting back, subtracting in chunks)
• Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
• Standard algorithms – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
• Estimating and solving addition and subtraction
• Arrays – Multiplication and Division
• Multiplication and division of fractions
• Repeated addition of fractions
• Ratios and unit rates
• 3 Unit Quizzes – Place Value, Numbers, Operations
• Answer Pages

Strand C - Algebra (Patterns, Equations, Coding)

• Repeating Patterns (different shapes, sizes, colours, orientations)
• Increasing/Decreasing patterns using all 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
• Determining pattern rules
• Extending growing, shrinking, and repeating patterns
• Determining pattern core in repeating patterns
• Table of Values
• Creating and describing patterns using whole numbers and decimal tenths
• Graphing table of values
• Pattern Blocks
• Relationships between whole numbers and decimal numbers using number strings
• Solving using variables
• Balancing equations using all 4 operations
• Evaluating equations deciding if they are equal (balanced)
• Solve inequalities involving the addition and subtraction of whole number to 20
• Writing code
• Interpreting code
• Using loops in code
• Concurrent codes – writing codes for events that happen simultaneously
• 3 Unit Tests – 1 for each overall expectation
• Answer Pages

Strand D - Data (Data Literacy and Probability)

• Difference between qualitative and quantitative data
• Difference between primary and secondary data
• Collecting data for areas of interest
• Using tally marks
• Using frequency tables
• Interpreting bar graphs and multi-bar graphs
• creating pictographs, bar graphs, and multi-bar graphs
• determining the mean, median, and mode of data sets
• Creating and interpreting stem-and-leaf plots
• Creating an appropriate scale for a graph
• Creating and interpreting infographics
• Drawing conclusions about different sets of data
• Drawing conclusions about different visual representations (line graph, circle chart, double bar graph)
• Describing the likelihood of an outcome (impossible, unlikely, equally likely, likely, and certain)
• Using a probability line to decide the probability of an event
• Completing surveys with different populations (students vs adults) and comparing the results
• Predicting the mean, median, and mode of a data set based on the population
• Answer Pages

Strand E - Spatial Sense

• Right angles, lines of symmetry, and parallel and perpendicular sides
• Identify properties of rectangles (right angles, parallel and perpendicular sides, and lines of symmetry
• Reading and plotting coordinates in the first quadrant
• Describing translations and reflections of shapes on a coordinate plane
• Translating and reflecting shapes on a coordinate plane
• The relationship between metric units of measurement (grams and kilograms, metres and centimetres and millilitres and litres)
• Using metric prefixes to determine the relative size of different metric units
• Measuring lengths using appropriate tools
• Estimating lengths, mass, and capacity of different things
• Read analog clocks to tell time
• Solve problems involving elapsed time (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years)
• Using open time lines to solve elapsed time questions
• Identify angles as right, straight, acute, or obtuse
• Draw right, straight, acute, and obtuse angles
• Find the area of shapes using arrays
• Use the area formula to determine the area of rectangles
• Use the formula for area to determine the unknown measurement
• Answer Pages

Strand F - Financial Literacy

• Methods of Payment – Reading
• Methods of Payment – Questions
• Goods and Services
• Needs vs Wants
• Spending and Saving
• Introduction to Investing
• Investment Plan – Assignment
• Donating
• Consumerism – Need vs Want
• Consumerism – Need vs Want – Questions
• Counting Dollars
• Counting Coins
• Converting Cents to Dollars
• Counting Canadian Coins
• Making Change
• Counting Money (Adding Money Totals)
• Calculating Change Using $1
• Calculating Change Using $2
• Calculating Change Using $5
• Calculating Change Using $10
• Calculating Change Using $20
• Calculating Change Using $50 and $100
• Calculating Change Up To $100
• Giving Change Using Coins
• Adding Money Amounts
• Adding Multiple Items
• Providing Change to Customers
• Money Word Problems
• Determining a Good Purchase
• Financial Literacy Unit Test
• Answer Pages

NEW 2022 CURRICULUM! BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

New Ontario 2022 Science Curriculum - Grade 4. This product was created to cover the NEW 2022 Ontario Science Grade 4 curriculum.

***Strand A: STEM/Coding has been added to this unit at no extra charge!

Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 4 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, questioning, visualizing, and inferencing) as they work through this unit.

Unit 1 - Machines and their Mechanisms

• What are machines?
• Simple machines – overview
• Roller vs wheel – sliding friction
• Wheel and axle – mechanical advantage
• Gears – spur gear, idle gear, bevel gear and worm gear
• Bicycles – using gears
• Gear trains and gear ratios – mechanical advantages
• Gears – changing planes (horizontal vs vertical)
• Gears - rotary motion vs linear motion
• Pulleys – fixed pulley, moveable pulley and compound pulley
• Pulleys - calculating mechanical advantage
• Pulleys – changing direction of force
• Pulley systems in our everyday lives
• Experiment – creating a pulley system
• Levers – types (class 1, class 2, class 3)
• Levers in our everyday lives
• Labelling levers by their type/class
• Experiment – creating a lever system
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of levers
• Inclined planes – mechanical advantage
• Everyday uses of inclined planes
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of inclined planes
• Wedges – everyday uses and diagram
• Screw – everyday uses and diagram
• Identifying simple machines in your life
• Compound machines – scissors, wheelbarrow
• Muscular-skeletal system – levers in our bodies
• Importance of machines in our lives – backhoe
• Electric vs fuel burning vehicles (machines) – effects on the environment
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing and reading code
• STEM Assignment – Self-Driving Vehicles
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 2 - Habitats and Communities

• What are habitats?
• What is a community?
• Terrestrial habitats vs aquatic habitats
• Difference between organisms, species, communities, and habitats
• Survival needs for organisms in habitats
• Animal adaptations that allow them to survive in their habitat
• Desert habitat – warm and cold deserts - climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Grassland habitat – climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Forest habitats – tropical forests, temperate forests, and boreal forests
• Importance of trees and forests for animals
• Aquatic habitats – wetlands
• Wetlands near us
• Plant and animal adaptations in wetlands
• Aquatic habitats – deep ocean and coral reefs
• Interaction of living and non-living things in habitats
• Food chain – producers, consumers and decomposers
• Creating a food chain
• Ordering food chains in different habitats
• Food web in wetlands
• Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
• Limits of habitats – carrying capacity
• Specialized vs generalized species
• Extinction and endangered species
• Human dependency on habitats – how humans affect habitats
• Wildlife populations and communities – endangered animals and extinction
• Human caused changes to habitats
• How you can help habitats
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Creating a zoo animal enclosure
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 3 - Rocks, Minerals and Geological Processes

• What is geology?
• Rocks vs minerals
• Classifying rocks and minerals
• Mineral composition of certain rocks – granite, gneiss, limestone, conglomerate, etc.
• The rock cycle – reading and diagram
• Science experiment – the rock cycle
• Geological processes that create metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rock
• Physical properties of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock
• Identifying metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rocks
• Describing rocks/minerals using their properties – lustre, hardness, colour, texture, transparency
• Science experiment – testing the hardness of rocks
• Earth’s processes – compacting, cementing, cooling, heating, pressure, erosion, etc.
• Controlling erosion – seawalls
• Weathering rocks – sediments
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition – formation of islands and sand dunes
• Science experiment - mixing earth’s materials
• Rocks and fossils
• What fossils tell us about Earth’s history
• The effects of wind, water, and ice on rocks and landforms
• Everyday uses of rocks
• Research activity – how rocks are used in different industries
• Indigenous use of rocks – Inukshuks, flint, and paint
• Activity – creating a clay Inukshuk
• Impacts of mining of the environment and socially (people)
• Mining towns – Mirny (Russia) and Dawson City (Yukon gold rush)
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Underground Drones
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 4 - Light and Sound

• What is energy – light and sound
• All about light – interesting facts
• Light sources – natural and artificial light
• Light emitters and light reflectors
• Properties of light – light absorbing, light reflecting, and light refracting
• Light travelling in a straight path - shadows
• White light and why we see colours
• Light interacting with different materials
• Light and heat – wasting energy
• Objects and devices that create both light and heat
• Shadows – opaque, transparent, and translucent objects – lab experiment
• Devices that use light – research assignment
• Lab – making a kaleidoscope
• Protecting our eyes from light
• Light pollution – affecting the environment
• Sound – interesting facts
• Sound travelling through matter – solids, liquids, and gases
• How our ears decipher sounds
• Properties of sound – reflected, absorbed (soundproof rooms)
• Sound waves - pitch, frequency, and amplitude
• Vibrations causing sound waves
• Echolocation – animals use sound to see
• Doppler effect
• Protecting our ears and hearing
• Materials that transmit sound
• Inventions that use sound – research assignment
• Sound pollution – transportation (trains, vehicles, airplanes)
• Lab – making a cereal box guitar
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Writing Code for a Walkie-Talkie
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

NEWLY UPDATED IN 2022! GOOGLE AND PDF VERSIONS BOTH INCLUDED!

FULL YEAR BUNDLE! With over 300 pages included, this product covers all the expectations in the Grade 4 Social Studies curriculum.

Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 4 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing and questioning) as they work through this unit.

Grade 4 – Ontario Social Studies Curriculum – Early Societies to 1500 CE. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 4 curriculum – Strand A: Heritage and Identity: Early Societies to 1500 CE.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a civilization?
• First civilization (society) – Sumer
• Sumerian Cuneiform – Writing using the Sumerian alphabet
• Mesopotamia – Living between two rivers – map and reading/questions
• Daily life in early societies – examining historical pictures/artifacts
• Inca, Andean, Mayan, Aztec – culture, daily life, governments, and social structure
• Inuit and First Nations (Algonkin, Haudenosaunee) – culture, daily life, governance, social structure)
• Ancient Egypt – architecture (pyramids), daily life, expanding knowledge
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs – writing using the Egyptian alphabet
• Maps of Ancient Egypt
• Rise of Rome – How geography shaped where Rome was founded (peninsula)
• Government of Rome
• Julius Caesar
• Fall of the Roman Empire – conflict between societies
• Children in early societies
• China – Advanced Society – technological advances (printing press, navigational tools)
• Zheng He – Cartography
• Navigational tools – timeline of inventions
• Silk Road – One Road, One Belt
• Religion around the world
• Feudalism – King, Noble, Knights, and Serfs
• Feudalism in Europe vs Japan
• Caste System – Social Classes in India
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 4 – Ontario Social Studies Curriculum – Political and Physical Regions of Canada. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 4 curriculum – Strand B: People and Environments: Political and Physical Regions of Canada.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Provinces and Territories in Canada
• Capital Cities in Canada
• Providing directions using cardinal directions using a map of Canada
• Atlantic Canada – People and Culture
• Central Canada – People and Culture
• Prairie Provinces – People and Culture
• Northern Territories – People and Culture
• West Coast – People and Culture
• Regions of Canada Map
• Location, Landforms, Climate, Vegetation, Economic Activities and Interesting Facts about each region listed below
• Appalachian Mountains, Western Cordillera, Interior Plains, Canadian Shield, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, Hudson Bay Lowlands, and Arctic Lowlands
• Identifying jobs and economic sectors in each region
• Examining pictures of each region
• Rocky Mountain - Profile
• Canada’s Boreal Forest – Profile
• Deforestation and Clear-cutting of the Boreal Forest
• Assignment – Creating Infographic about Deforestation
• Comparing the East Coast to the West Coast – Climate and Populations
• Resource Town in Alberta – Fort McMurray Profile
• Northern Canada and the Northern Way of Life
• Natural Resources in Canada
• Human Activities and their Effect on the Economy
• Economic Sectors – Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary
• Identifying people who work in each sector
• Comparing the work force in Canada by each sector
• Difference between provinces and territories
• Municipalities in Canada
• First Nation Reserves in Canada
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has everything you need to feel confident that you are covering the NEW Ontario Language curriculum.

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