English Language Arts
ELA Daily Spiral Review (4th Grade) provides short, daily practice activities that revisit and strengthen key language arts skills. Each day’s work is designed to take 5–10 minutes and includes a mix of topics students have already learned, so they keep practicing while moving forward.
ELA Daily Spiral Review (4th Grade) provides short, daily practice activities that revisit and strengthen key language arts skills. Each day’s work is designed to take 5–10 minutes and includes a mix of topics students have already learned, so they keep practicing while moving forward.
Use grammar concepts and skills that strengthen oral and written language
Use various parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns, and verbs
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
Reading Standards for Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Increasing word understanding, word use, and word relationships increases vocabulary. Students can:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. (CCSS: L.3.4)
Use knowledge of word relationships to identify antonyms or synonyms to clarify meaning.
English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 3 Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonics. Students use the relationships between letters and sounds, spelling patterns, and morphological analysis to decode written English. Students are expected to:
Use common syllabication patterns to decode words including:
R-controlled vowels (e.g., fer-ment, car-pool)
2010 Language Standards K-5 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
Decoding words with accuracy depends on knowledge of complex spelling patterns and morphology. Students can:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings. (CCSS: L.2.5)
Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). (CCSS: L.2.5b)
Writing: English Language Conventions: Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level. Capitalization: Capitalize all proper nouns (names of specific people or things, such as Mike, Indiana, Jeep), words at the beginning of sentences and greetings, months and days of the week, and titles (Dr., Mr., Mrs., Miss) and initials in names.
Reading: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development: Students understand the basic features of words. They see letter patterns and know how to translate them into spoken language by using phonics (an understanding of the different letters that make different sounds), syllables, and word parts (-s, -ed, -ing). Decoding and Word Recognition: Recognize common abbreviations (Jan., Fri.).
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Reading Standards for Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).