Weekly Boost
This Week in Fourth Grade
Week 20
Proper Punctuation Usage
Proper Punctuation Usage
As your child continues to edit and revise their writing, make sure they are using punctuation marks correctly. Kids often have an easier time fixing other people's punctuation errors, so select from the following activities to give your child editing practice.
As your students continue to edit and revise their writing, focus on the proper usage of punctuation marks. Since kids often have an easier time fixing other people's punctuation errors, select from the following activities to give your students editing practice.
Practice Punctuation: Little Women
Worksheet
Practice Punctuation: Little Women
Young learners will correct a passage for punctuation in this proofreading exercise.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Punctuation: Black Beauty
Worksheet
Punctuation: Black Beauty
Need some practice with punctuation? Here's a great opportunity to punctuate a passage from a famous work of classic literature!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Punctuation: The Lion and the Mouse
Worksheet
Punctuation: The Lion and the Mouse
If you're looking for some punctuation practice, here's the worksheet for you! Read the fable, and then add in all the missing punctuation marks.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Division Facts Review
Division Facts Review
Build a strong foundation for long division by having your child review and memorize division facts. Since division is the inverse operation of multiplication, quizzing your child on both multiplication and division facts can be a fun way to practice this skill together.
Build a strong foundation for long division by having your students review and memorize division facts. In an effort to make connections across math topics, be sure to remind them about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division.
Division Facts: Nines
Interactive Worksheet
Division Facts: Nines
Learners work on their division facts for 9 in this practice worksheet.
4th grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Practice Finding the Variable #2
Worksheet
Practice Finding the Variable #2
This worksheet lets your fourth grader in on a valuable algebra trick: to find the value of a variable in a division equation, simply use multiplication!
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Multiplication and Division Review
Interactive Worksheet
Multiplication and Division Review
Students will review their multiplication and division facts as they solve a variety of problems using mental math.
4th grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Fiction Reading Comprehension
Fiction Reading Comprehension
This series of reading activities will get your child really thinking about story structure. Identifying important details during the beginning, middle, and end of a story is an important reading comprehension skill, particularly for this age group. Select one of the following activities to work on with your child! This is a great way for you to see if your child is grasping key, comprehension skills.
This series of reading activities will get your students really thinking about story structure. Identifying important details during the beginning, middle, and end of a story is an important reading comprehension skill, particularly for this age group. When crafting literary responses, students must support their ideas with evidence from all parts of a story! These cross-curricular activities are sure to create a rich reading environment!
Storyboard Summary
Worksheet
Storyboard Summary
With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Simple Storyboard
Worksheet
Simple Storyboard
This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember
Worksheet
Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember
After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Adding Evidence to Literary Essays
Adding Evidence to Literary Essays
Now that your child has an idea of the claim they want to voice in their literary essays, they need to practice supporting their viewpoints. Once your child has come up with an argument for a literary essay, have them skim their reading and put post-its next to evidence that supports their argument.
Now that your students have constructed claims for literary essays, they need practice supporting these opinions. This series of activities will help your students practice stating their claim, identifying their reasons for their claim, and citing specific evidence for those reasons. All of these skills are essential when they set out to craft and test their theses.
Author's Claim, Reasons, and Evidence
Worksheet
Author's Claim, Reasons, and Evidence
In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.
5th grade
Worksheet
Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim
Worksheet
Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim
This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Argument Writing: Sentence Frames
Worksheet
Argument Writing: Sentence Frames
Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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