Students will use the picture prompt templates to help promote writing about personal experiences. The planner will help them establish chronological order of their thoughts. Using the funnel template may also help them focus their writing.
Students will use the Scrabble template in daily 5 activities to create words based upon the centers theme or language concept. Students can use electronic or junior dictionaries to confirm the spellings of their words during the game.
This is a cross curricular activity where students will create a vocabulary list complete with visuals to help them remember and explain key words in other subject areas. The template can be adjusted for other subjects and not just Social Studies. You can also adjust the supplied word list.
Students will use the various poetry templates to learn about a specific poetic style while learning how these styles convey meaning of an idea in a specific way.
Students will use the novel summary template and the review template to complete activities for a novel study. Students will create summaries and learn how to add images and voice overs to explain the novel. Templates can be adjusted for any novel or any number of chapters.
Students will use the silhouette template to create a visual of themselves while experimenting with font and style to communicate meaning about themselves. Using Pixlr is a good option for student created silhouettes.
Students will use the provided picture prompts to create narratives based upon the visuals and their own ideas or experiences.
Students will use the organization template to summarize a novel using visuals and text. The template can be adjusted for different novels and for a variety of different chapters.
Students will use the Google Slides template to explore what makes a compound sentence a compound sentence. They will also learn the skills of copy and pasting objects in a multi-media format.
Students will use the sentence variety activity to learn about simple and compound sentence structures. They will also develop their own sentences to display their own understanding of the structures.
This Poetry Unit contains lessons, activities, and templates for creating acrostics, cinquain, similes, onomatopoeia, haikus, blackout poetry and more.
Where is James? - Students travel along with a character in a novel and develop reading responses along the way, using Google Earth, MyMaps and blogging. Example project is done with James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Evaluation_Rubric
Storyline Online - view and listen to stories being read aloud by actors.
Teaching Books - TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment.
Aesop's Fables Modern and Traditional
Grade Four Reading Comprehension Practice Tests
Practice Reading Section Grade 4
RazKids - Online leveled Reading Library- Subscription
Storybird - Art Inspired Collaborative Story Telling! Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing!
Scholastic Story Starters - A creative activity that can be different every time you try it. Select your grade and then spin the wheels to see what your story will be about. Then, choose a format for the story.
Character traits list - From Read Write Think.org
Create Your Own Comic - Reading and writing activities from Marvel Comics.
Make Beliefs Comix - Create your own comic strip
ToonDoo Comic book creator tool
Eye on Idioms - After viewing the literal representation of each idiom, students are asked to complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list.
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 4 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 5 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Proofreading Makes Perfect! - Gr. 6 (spelling, usage, capitalization and punctuation)
Road To Grammar - (365 grammar quizzes)
Grammar Gorillas - An online grammar game; if you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana.