4th Grade Report Overview

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 4 partially meet the expectation for alignment to the CCSSM. The materials meet expectations in the areas of focus and coherence, but they do not meet the expectations for alignment to the CCSSM in the areas of rigor and the MPs. In the area of focus within the grade, no above grade-level topics are included in the assessments. The materials spend an appropriate amount of class time on major work. In the area of coherence, the materials include content that is shaped by the CCSSM clusters with enough work to be viable for one school year. All students engage in extensive practice with grade-level problems, but supporting and additional content do not always engage students in the major work of the grade. Natural connections are made between clusters and domains. In the area of rigor and balance, all three aspects of rigor are sometimes present in the materials, but more emphasis needs to be placed on conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application to help students meet the Standards’ rigorous expectations. The three aspects of rigor are not well balanced. In the area of practice-content connections, the materials identify MPs, but they do not consistently enrich the content and do not attend to the full meaning of the MPs. Students rarely construct viable arguments or analyze the arguments of others. Materials do not explicitly teach the specialized language of mathematics.