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This Week in Fourth Grade
Week 23


R-Controlled Vowels
R-Controlled Vowels
This is a great time of year to review important R-controlled vowel skills with your child. Accurately spelling words with R-controlled syllables is a key skill to master. Having a firm grasp on this skill is necessary given the vast amount of words that contain R-controlled vowels!
This is a great time of year to review skills related to R-controlled vowels. Select activities that give your students practice creating and reading multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels. Accurately spelling words with R-controlled syllables is a key skill as well. Having a firm grasp on this skill is necessary given the vast amount of words that contain R-controlled vowels!
Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels: Stand Up!
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Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels: Stand Up!
During this activity, students will match a multisyllabic word to one of five R-controlled vowel combinations.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels Board Game
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Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels Board Game
During this fun activity, students practice creating and reading multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Word Sort: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels
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Word Sort: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels
Children learn to identify, pronounce, and sort words with R-controlled vowels in this grammar and phonics worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Factors and Multiples
Factors and Multiples
Having a strong grasp of factors and multiples is a skill that your child will need to be able to expand and reduce fractions, as well as find patterns in numbers. From finding the greatest common factor to listing out multiples of a number, this series of activities will give your child a vast amount of practice with these valuable skills!
In order to expand and reduce fractions, as well as find patterns in numbers, your students must have a strong grasp of factors and multiples. From finding the greatest common factor to listing out multiples of a number, this series of activities will give your students a vast amount of practice with these valuable skills!
Practice Multiples
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Practice Multiples
A multiple is the result of multiplying a number by another whole number. Help your students practice identifying the multiples with this worksheet.
4th grade
Math
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Greatest Common Factor
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Greatest Common Factor
Teach your students to use factor rainbows to find the greatest common factor of two given numbers.
4th grade
Math
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Finding Factors
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Finding Factors
With this worksheet, your child will be learning about factors, and they'll be getting multiplication practice as they go.
4th grade
Math
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Reading Comprehension: Making Connections
Reading Comprehension: Making Connections
Making connections while reading heightens understanding and recall, as a deeper level of meaning is drawn into the reading process. Model this type of strategic reading for your child and give them ample practice connecting their texts to themselves, other texts, and the world around them.
Continue to motivate your fourth graders to make meaningful connections between the texts they're reading and their own experiences. Making connections while reading heightens understanding and recall, as a deeper level of meaning is drawn into the reading process. Model this type of strategic reading for your students and give them ample practice connecting their texts to themselves, other texts, and the world around them.
Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe
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Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe
Get your students excited about making text connections!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Making Connections: Thinking Stems
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Making Connections: Thinking Stems
These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections
Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Adjectives & Descriptive Words in Writing
Adjectives & Descriptive Words in Writing
Your child is becoming a master at editing and revising their own writing pieces! One way to further improve writing is to refine adjectives to be more specific. Choosing effective superlative and comparative adjectives, as well as other descriptive words, will make your child's writing more interesting. Remind your child to integrate vivid descriptions into their writing.
Your students are becoming masters at editing and revising their writing pieces! One way they can improve their writing is to refine their adjectives to be more specific. Choosing effective superlative and comparative adjectives, as well as other descriptive words, will make your students' writing more interesting. Remind them to integrate vivid descriptions into their writing when they set out to write about their reading.
Superlative Rule Breakers
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Superlative Rule Breakers
Discover adjectives that just don't follow the rules in this activity about comparatives and superlatives.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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More Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
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More Comparative & Superlative Adjectives
Children practice working with comparative and superlative adjectives in this hands-on grammar worksheet.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives
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Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives
In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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