What your child will learn

The following is a list of units your student will work through the year. Click on each title to read a document with main concepts of each unit and strategies you can use to support them at home. For identification of which unit your child is working in, contact your child's school or teacher.

• Interpreting the Characters: The Heart of the Story
• Reading the Weather, Reading the World
• Author's Study: Reading Like a Fan
• Reading History: The American Revolution
• Historical Fiction Book Clubs
• Social Issues Book Clubs

Supporting your child

In addition to the information on the documents linked above, this section will provide you with other strategies and activities you can use at home with your child.

How to Keep Reading with your Child is a quick article with tips on continuing to read with your child once they reach fourth or fifth grade. This article can be found here.

Additional Resource

Below are several links to videos to help gain understanding into your child's development in reading throughout their fourth grade year.