Grade 4 Curriculum

Curriculum Strands

Key Focus Areas

• Critical reading and analysis of diverse text types
• Research skills — locating, evaluating, and synthesising information
• Writing essays, reports, and persuasive texts
• Advanced vocabulary — prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
• Media literacy — analysing and creating media texts
• Formal and informal speaking for different audiences

Sample Learning Outcomes

• Identify theme, author's purpose, and literary devices in fiction
• Write a structured essay with introduction, body, and conclusion
• Locate and evaluate information from multiple sources
• Adjust vocabulary and tone for different audiences and purposes

Curriculum Strands

Key Focus Areas

• Multi-digit multiplication and division strategies and algorithms
• Understanding and comparing fractions, decimals, and percentages
• Exploring factors, multiples, and number patterns
• Properties of 2D and 3D shapes, including angles and symmetry
• Data collection, representation, and interpretation
• Developing algebraic reasoning through pattern rules

Sample Learning Outcomes

• Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers using efficient strategies
• Compare and order fractions and decimals on a number line
• Identify and describe properties of quadrilaterals and triangles
• Collect data and represent it in bar graphs and line plots

Curriculum Strands

Key Focus Areas

• Exploring forms and transformation of energy
• Investigating wave properties, light, and sound
• Understanding structure and function in living organisms
• Earth processes — weathering, erosion, and geological change
• Designing and testing engineering solutions
• Using evidence to construct scientific explanations

Sample Learning Outcomes

• Describe how energy can be transferred and transformed
• Investigate how waves transfer energy without transferring matter
• Explain how body systems work together to support life
• Analyse Earth processes that change the landscape over time

Curriculum Strands

Key Focus Areas

• Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and their legacy
• European exploration, colonisation, and its impact
• The transatlantic slave trade and emancipation
• Physical and human geography of the Caribbean region
• Civic rights, responsibilities, and democratic participation
• Economic systems, trade, and resource management

Sample Learning Outcomes

• Describe the culture and contributions of Amerindian peoples
• Explain the causes and effects of colonisation in the Caribbean
• Analyse maps to describe the physical geography of the region
• Compare different economic systems and trade relationships