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This Week in Fourth Grade
Week 36


Proper Syntax
Proper Syntax
Hone your child's ability to identify proper and improper syntax! From subjects and predicates to compound sentences and run-ons, this series offers ample practice in creating strong sentences. Reinforce these skills with a fun, hands-on activity, such as the Sen-Tense Card Game.
Hone your students' ability to identify proper and improper syntax! From subjects and predicates to compound sentences and run-ons, this series offers ample practice in creating strong sentences. Reinforce these skills with a fun, hands-on activity, such as the Sen-Tense Card Game.
Conjunctions: The Cure for Your Run-ons
Worksheet
Conjunctions: The Cure for Your Run-ons
Writers will learn to identify run-on sentences and repair them with conjunctions.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Creating Compound Sentences
Worksheet
Creating Compound Sentences
Use this exercise to help your student create a compound sentence from two simple sentences, using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Recognize a Fragment When You See One!
Worksheet
Recognize a Fragment When You See One!
Students will read 10 examples and determine if they are sentences or fragments, then rewrite the fragments to form complete sentences.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Geometry: Angles and Lines
Geometry: Angles and Lines
This week, your child will improve their understanding of geometry, develop key vocabulary, and practice performing calculations with accuracy. Reinforce these skills by playing a game with your child! You can take turns thinking of a (grade-appropriate) shape, then offering hints to help the other person guess the correct shape.
In this series of activities, fourth graders will improve their understanding of geometry, develop key vocabulary, and practice performing calculations with accuracy. Reinforce these skills with a student-centered classroom learning activity. Set up bingo boards with various grade-appropriate shapes, then give your students clues to determine whether they have the shape on the board. When a group of students calls out "bingo!" be prepared to reward them with something fun.
Baseball Field Angles #1
Worksheet
Baseball Field Angles #1
Students figure and identify 180-degree, 45-degree, and 90-degree angles in this printable, baseball-themed math worksheet.
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Obtuse Triangles: Identifying Triangles
Worksheet
Obtuse Triangles: Identifying Triangles
Is your fourth grader reluctant to practice geometry? This colorful worksheet, which explores obtuse triangles, may be just what he needs!
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
The Missing Angle: Quadrilaterals
Worksheet
The Missing Angle: Quadrilaterals
Turn your fourth grader into a geometry detective! How many degrees is each missing angle in these quadrilaterals?
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Sequence of Events
Sequence of Events
Understanding the sequence of either a fiction or nonfiction text is a key fourth-grade reading comprehension skill. Whether your child practices how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of fictional texts — or uses a graphic organizer to order events in a nonfiction text — it's important that they understand that grasping the sequence of events is paramount to understanding a text. Given that many children struggle with this skill, provide reinforcement with a fun activity, such as creating a timeline to represent the sequence of a select text.
Understanding the sequence of either a fiction or nonfiction text is a key fourth-grade reading comprehension skill. Whether students practice how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of fictional texts — or use a graphic organizer to order events in a nonfiction text — it's important that they understand that grasping the sequence of events is paramount to understanding a text. Given that many fourth graders still struggle with this skill, provide reinforcement with a fun activity, such as creating a timeline to represent the sequence of a select text.
Put the Story Sequence in Order
Worksheet
Put the Story Sequence in Order
Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
History of Photography Timeline
Worksheet
History of Photography Timeline
Your 4th grader can learn about the history of photography and you can test his reading comprehension with this fun history timeline!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Timeline Organizer
Worksheet
Timeline Organizer
Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
More Creative Writing Prompts
More Creative Writing Prompts
By this time of year, fourth graders are ready to show off their creative writing skills! From writing a letter to the president to formatting a superhero comic strip, this series affords young writers the chance to tap into a well of creativity. Your child will have so much fun writing these pieces that working through the writing process will feel easy!
Your fourth graders are ready to show off their creative writing skills! From writing a letter to the president to formatting a superhero comic strip, this series will afford young writers the chance to tap into a well of creativity. Kids will have so much fun writing these pieces, they'll hardly notice that they are working through various stages of writing.
Superhero Showdown: Shark Attack!
Worksheet
Superhero Showdown: Shark Attack!
Super villain Mt. Crushmore and superhero The Human Shield are battling it out...with sharks! What mighty and menacing things are they saying to each other?
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Comic Book Writing: Superhero Showdown
Worksheet
Comic Book Writing: Superhero Showdown
What's going on in this superhero comic strip? The adventures are up to your fifth grader, as he fills in captions and word bubbles with comic book writing.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Cat Comics: Gone Fishin'!
Worksheet
Cat Comics: Gone Fishin'!
Can your fourth grader write his own comic strip? Let him give it a shot, with this fill-in-the-blank adventure featuring A.J. and C.K.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet

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