4th Grade Literacy

Online Activities

Click on School Library Site to access:

  • Capstone eBooks - (K-5 Library) - Reads aloud. English and Spanish titles

  • PebbleGo (K-2) - Reads aloud. English and Spanish articles, activities, and videos

  • TumbleBook Library - Picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, non-fiction, videos, Spanish and French titles

  • Britannica Online - Reads aloud; language options; online encyclopedia

  • True Flix - books that read aloud; videos and projects

Click here to view video tutorials on how to access these eBook resources.


Other Online Literacy Resources

Storyline Online - videos of actors reading books

Common Lit - Fiction and Nonfiction

Epic! - Need log in from teacher; eBooks available free during school hours

Read, Wonder, and Learn - Favorite authors and illustrators share resources (range of grade level books)

#Operation Storytime - Authors host storytime

ReadWorks - Need log in (free); Nonfiction

Newsela - Needs log in (free); current events at variety of reading levels

Wisconsin’s Digital Library (Overdrive/Libby) - Need Middleton Public Library card to log in and access; eBooks (Kid thru Adult books)

4th Grade Writing Prompts for Ideas to Write About

How To Writing Instructional Video

Writing Tips from Kate DiCamillo

Drawing and Writing Prompts - Finish These Comics - with Jarrett Lerner

Offline Activities

reading

Quiet Reading

Read with a sibling/grown-up



writing

Keep a daily journal

Write a letter to someone

Write a How-To Book

Write an Informational book or Fiction Story

Pretend you are a reporter and interview people

Write and perform a play



word study

Go on a hunt in newspapers, books, etc… for:

-blends

-digraphs

-vowel teams

-prefixes

-suffixes