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Fourth Grade in Texas

Texas public schools are overseen by the Texas Education Agency. This is the Fourth Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Austin to the smallest district in between.

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Schools across Texas

State capital

Austin

Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.

Serving schools in

Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, and El Paso

and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.

What Fourth Grade looks like here

The analytical-writing year; multi-paragraph writing, long division, and a child who researches and reasons rather than just recalls.

By fourth grade the gradebook carries multiple subjects with weighted categories a parent reads across a term.

From third grade's first-testing pivot into deeper analytical work and multi-subject grades.

Standards

The academic standards Fourth Grade follows in Texas

Texas adopts its own academic standards; the Texas Education Agency is the authority that sets what a public school teaches. Below are the real, currently listed Texas standards documents for Grades 3-5, by subject, with a link to each one so you can read it at the source. We write our own free Fourth Grade materials to align with them; we are not the Texas Education Agency, and we are not endorsed, approved by, or affiliated with it.

English Language Arts

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading - Grade 3 (2017)

3.1 — The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
3.1.A — listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments;
3.1.B — follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action;

318 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.

Mathematics

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics (2012)

3.1.A — apply mathematics to problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace
3.1.D — communicate mathematical ideas, reasoning, and their implications using multiple representations, including symbols, diagrams, graphs, and language as appropriate
3.1.E — create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas

174 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.

Science

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science - Grade 3 (2021)

3.1.A (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.B (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.C (see the source document for the full text)

166 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.

Social Studies

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Skills - Grade 3 (2022)

3.1.A (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.B (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.C (see the source document for the full text)

259 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.

Standard codes and text are drawn from the Common Standards Project / Achievement Standards Network (ASN) corpus, republished by D2L Corporation (CC BY (per-document; see each cell.document.license)). 3rd-party aggregator copy, NOT an authoritative state publication. Verify against each document's own source before treating as authoritative. We do not present this as an authoritative crosswalk; each state agency’s own publication, linked above, is the authority.

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Where these numbers come from

Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.