Grade by Grade
Nova Scotia · Grade 4

English Language Arts

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

AFoundations of Language

Asking questions to clarify; oral and non-verbal strategies; simple and compound sentences; parts of speech; a variety of punctuation

BComprehension

Using text forms and structures to understand; style elements and their effect; text features

CComposition

Form-specific structures for organizing writing; checking for errors; handwriting alongside first word-processing skills

DConnecting to Content Area

Subject-specific vocabulary, research and writing to learn in other subjects