4th Grade CCSS: Language

For fourth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the rules for using the English language, including vocabulary use and language conventions, in order to improve their skills as writers and readers. Among the complete standards for this grade, fourth graders will be asked to: demonstrate that they understand standard English usage by showing that they understand the function of relative nouns, relative adverbs, the progressive tense, modal auxiliaries, Greek and Latin affixes and roots, prepositional phrases, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and many additional conventions of the language, choose and use language and punctuation for a desired effect, be able to consult reference materials to check correct spellings, determine unknown words within the grade level, use context clues and root words with unknown words to determine meanings, understand figurative language, metaphors, idioms, adages and proverbs.