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Materials & Resources

• Baldwin's Fourth Year Reader or Alternative McGuffey's Third Reader first half
• McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book Pages 60-73 or
• Alternative Spellers Word Lessons A Complete Speller Grade 4 Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 4
  Sander's Union Speller pages 63-76
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 72-108
• Student dictionary for new words.
• Spelling Lessons Pages
• Free Reading 20 Min a day and report (on free reading page)
• More Cursive Writing Practice

Topics to be covered this year

• Developing skills in locating information
• Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays
• Silent and oral reading Book Reports
• Choral reading
• Listening skills
• Telephone skills
• Making and accepting simple social introductions
• Summarizing simple information
• Listening to literature
• Critical reading
• Simple outlining
• Written and oral Book Reports
• Creative writing

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Increasing dictionary skills
• Writing letters and informal notes
• Increasing indexing skills
• Developing encyclopedia skills
• Utilizing Parts of a newspaper

 

Extras

Wordsearch Factory (Download free)

The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School

Stories to Tell Children (pdf) 4th grade readings

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