Reading and Language Arts

Students will enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Every week they will read a story from their StoryTown textbook or online on Thursday night. Each Tuesday they will read their leveled readers (online). Students will also read several books of various genres and record it each week in their genre log. They will also record their minutes read in their 100 minute reading log. Each month students will read and present a play from readers theater.

They will have daily assignments in comprehension, reading skills, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar which they need to complete before the next class day.

On this page you will find:

  • Storytown textbook links

  • Fables, folktales, tall tales, Greek myths, and legends you can read online for your reading genre.

  • StoryTown reading skill extra home support


Reading

leveled readers 1 link leveled readers 2 link leveled readers 3 link

Famous Fairy tales link



Fables link

Tall tales link

Folktales link

Greek Myths link

Famous legends by Crommelin

This a a great book for grade 4 students to read. It is old, but it is well written and has stood the test of time for well written literature.

Reading Skills support videos

Similes and Metaphors

hyperbole

personification

Idioms

Dialogue instruction lessons

Transition words instruction lessons

Great additions to reading and writing

StoryTown Reading Skill practice

This is a great site to find and review reading skills learned each week in class.

G4thLangReviewEditable.pptx
2271_001.pdf


Below are links to add support to our weekly reading skills learned in class. Parents and students, use these as an alternative review for Wednesday practice if needed.

Lesson 26

main idea links for practicing

https://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/main_idea_language_arts_fourth_4th_grade.htm

http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/main-idea.html

paraphrasing

https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/paraphrasing/

Lesson 27

Implied main idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSClp4vP3B0

Graphic aids

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/5801-use-diagrams-and-graphic-aids-to-understand-a-text-s-meaning

https://jr.brainpop.com/math/data/tallychartsandbargraphs/

http://study.com/academy/lesson/how-to-analyze-graphic-information-inside-a-text.html

The brain pop link will give you a redirect notice. just select the link they show you and the link will open. Also know that it only give you a portion of the lesson before it stops. The portion it gives is all you need.

Lesson 28 and 29

See all the video links for figurative language above.

comma review

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/punctuation-the-comma-and-the-apostrophe/introduction-to-commas/v/meet-the-comma-the-comma-punctuation-khan-academy

Watch the video then take the quiz.




1735_001.pdf

StoryTown oral reading fluency recording forms

1734_001.pdf

StoryTown oral reading student practice

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