4th Grade CCSS: Reading: Foundational Skills

For fourth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the concepts of print, the alphabet, and the basic conventions of the written English language. Among the complete standards for this grade, fourth graders will be asked to: use fourth grade appropriate phonics and word analysis skills to decode words, decode multi-syllable words with context clues, knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabic patterns and morphology (roots and suffixes), read fourth grade texts with the proper fluency, accuracy and understanding.