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| Write a list poem If you can write a list, you can write a poem! Help your child practice her writing while channeling her inner poet in this activity that has her composing an entire poem from a simple list. | Play Vocabulary BingoIt's an easy twist on the classic game and it will prepare your fourth grader for the vocabulary challenges that lie ahead | 16 Ways to Bring Books AliveThere are many ways to have your child respond to literature, including discussion, written expression, arts and crafts, and drama | Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!In order to broaden your child's vocabulary knowledge, they'll need to look beyond just the definition. Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning. | Find the Gist: A Textbook Study StrategyHere's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements. |
Go Ahead and Judge a Book by its CoverIs your child an aspiring book critic? Whether it's a novel from the Twilight series or required school reading, this activity helps him learn a little about his own preconceptions. | A Field Guide to GrammarAppositives? Clauses? Huh? Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to real life reading and writing. | Hate Writing? Try the these sites... Create your own comic book Magnetic words! | ||
http://www.tikatok.com/assets/teachers_how_to_create_a_book.pdf Books to read in Grade 4
| Baker, Barbara | Oh, Emma. Frustrated by life in a crowded housing project, Emma longs for a room of her own. (135pp.) |
| Beatty, Jerome | Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth. Although the inhabitants of the moon are convinced that there is no life on Earth, young Matthew Looney finds evidence that indicates otherwise. (131pp.) |
| Brittain, Bill | Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts? Three kids join forces with two lively ghosts to save a historic mansion from being destroyed by a crooked antique dealer. (119pp.) |
| Brooks, Walter R. | Freddy the Pilot. Freddy learns to be a pilot in order to save Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic-book tycoon. (247pp.) |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden. When spoiled Mary Lennox is orphaned and sent to live in a great gloomy house in Yorkshire, she learns of a hidden garden and is determined to uncover the secret. (311pp.) |
| Butterworth, Oliver | The Enormous Egg. Nate finds his life turned upside down when a dinosaur hatches out of a giant egg laid by his hen. (188pp.) |
| Calhoun, Mary | Honestly, Katie John! Katie John organizes the Boy Hating Club of America which her friends join, but soon Katie John is the only member. (214pp.) |
| Cameron, Eleanor | The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. A mysterious man inspires two boys to build a spaceship which takes them to Basidium to help the Mushroom people. (214pp.) |
| Catling, Patrick Skene | The Chocolate Touch. A boy acquires the ability to turn everything he touches to chocolate. (pp.) |
| Cecil, Laura | Boo! Stories To Make You Jump. A collection of scary stories and poems about monsters, ghosts, and witches. (93pp.) |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and the Paper Route. Henry wants desperately to have a paper route but events constantly conspire against him. (192pp.) |
| Collard, Sneed B. III. | Do They Scare You? Creepy Creatures. Twenty-two animals with scary reputations are described and illustrated. (pp.) |
| Corbett, Scott | The Lemonade Trick. Kerby is given a magic chemistry set that causes very strange changes in people. (103pp.) |
| Cresswell, Helen | Meet Posy Bates. The adventures and misadventures of Posy, who desperately wants a pet. (95pp.) |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie desperately wants to win the contest given by Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. The sequel is Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. (161pp.) |
| Eager, Edward | Knight's Castle. Roger, Ann and their cousins find a model soldier which has magical powers -- and they all find themselves transported back to the time of Ivanhoe. (183pp.) |
| Eisenberg, Lisa | Leave It To Lexie. Lexie wants to do something really special for the talent show -- but what? (123pp.) |
| Elish, Dan | Jason and the Baseball Bear. Jason, who can talk to animals, improves his baseball team's chances to win the championship with the help of a polar bear named Whitney. (147pp.) |
| Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy. A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently change places after becoming involved with outlaws. (pp.) |
| Gates, Doris | Blue Willow. Janey longs for a permanent home, but that is hard to accomplish for a migrant family during the Depression. (172pp.) |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Fourth-Grade Celebrity. Casey Valentine is determined to become famous -- no matter what. (pp.) |
| Gilson, Jamie | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub. The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry. (140pp.) |
| Gormley, Beatrice | Fifth Grade Magic. Devastated at not getting a part in her class play, Gretchen is surprised when her desperation conjures up a well-meaning but not very efficient godmother. (pp.) |
| Haas, Dorothy | The Secret Life of Dilly McBean. Dilly McBean has a fantastic power that no one knows about. But if no one knows, who is watching his every move? (202pp.) |
| Hayashi, Nancy | The Fantastic Stay-Home-From-School Day. Best friends Leona and Eddie plan a fantastic day at home, but it backfires when Eddie gets sent to school, and separately they each go from disaster to disaster. (106pp.) |
| Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague. Two kids are determined to own a pony from Chincoteague Island. (173pp.) |
| Herzig, Alison | Mystery on October Road. There is something very strange happening in the house next door to Casey's. (57pp.) |
| Hildick, E.W. | The Case of the Wiggling Wig. Something very weird is going on in the house next door, and the McGurk Organization is determined to solve the mystery. (154pp.) |
| Hoffman, Mary | The Four-Legged Ghosts. Alex's pet mouse turns out to have magic powers and creates havoc by summoning up the ghosts of all the animals that have ever lived in the house. (90pp.) |
| Honeycutt, Natalie | Lydia Jane and the Baby-Sitter Exchange. Lydia Jane, dissatisfied with her highly cautious baby-sitter and her rules, hatches several plots to free herself. (117pp.) |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Aldo Applesauce. When he and his family move to the suburbs, Aldo must find new friends. (127pp.) |
| Jackson, Alison | My Brother the Star. Competing for attention with his annoyingly cute younger brother who stars in television commercials, Les tries out for a coveted spot on the county basketball team. (105pp.) |
| Joosse, Barbara | Anna, the One and Only. Anna tries to prove she is as special as her pretty, talented older sister. (131pp.) |
| Kaye, M.M. | The Ordinary Princess. Princess Amy runs away from home to become the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid in a nearby castle -- with most unexpected results. (112pp.) |
| Kehret, Peg | The Richest Kids in Town. Peter teams up with a classmate to earn money for a trip to his old hometown, but all their efforts have unexpectedly funny results. (114pp.) |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decides to run away she plans to go where she can live in style and comfort -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (162pp.) |
| Korman, Gordon | Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road? When Justin is teamed up with two of the smartest girls in his fourth grade class for a good deed contest, his zany ideas almost cost them their chance to win. (110pp.) |
| Lawson, Robert | Ben And Me. The "real" story of Ben Franklin as told by his pet mouse. (pp.) |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking. Pippi Longstocking is definitely the most interesting, most fun friend two kids could have. (158pp.) |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Again! Anastasia is appalled at her parent's decision to move. (145pp.) |
| McCloskey, Robert | Homer Price. Unusual things seem to happen to Homer -- very unusual. (149pp.) |
| McHugh, Elisabet | Raising A Mother Isn't Easy. Karen decides that her mother needs a husband - so she sets out to find her one. (pp.) |
| McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | Fourth Grade Is A Jinx. Collette is mortified when her mother takes over the job of teaching Collette's class. (168pp.) |
| Martin, Ann M. | Stage Fright. Shy Sara panics when she must perform in a school play. (125pp.) |
| Merrill Jean | The Toothpaste Millionaire. Kate's friend Rufus starts a business making toothpaste and winds up a millionaire. (90pp.) |
| Mills, Claudia | Cally's Enterprise. Cally's life seems to be totally arranged by her parents and her friends. How can she do what she wants? (116pp.) |
| Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | Mayfield Crossing. When the black kids from Mayfield Crossing attend the newly integrated Parkview Elementary school they encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for bringing people together. Set in 1960. (88pp.) |
| Norton, Mary | Bedknob And Broomsticks. Three kids acquire a magic bedknob which takes them on dangerous journeys to exotic places. (189pp.) |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup On Fire. Rob and Soup set in motion a wild scheme to catch the eye of the Hollywood talent scout visiting their town. (116pp.) |
| Pryor, Bonnie | Poison Ivy And Eyebrow Wigs. Martin and Jamie are determined to join the incrowd of fourth-grade boys -- but all does not go according to plan. (162pp.) |
| Robinson, Barbara | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. When the worst kids in town take over the annual Christmas pageant the results surprise everyone. (80pp.) |
| Rock, Gail | The House Without A Christmas Tree. Addie wants desperately not to be the only family in town without a Christmas tree. (88pp.) |
| Scribner, Virginia | Gopher Takes Heart. While his class prepares for Valentine's Day, Gopher struggles to stand up to the class bully, hold on to his milk money, and retain his self-respect. (136pp.) |
| Seabrooke, Brenda | The Dragon That Ate Summer. While recovering from a skateboard accident, Alastair finds an unusual new pet in Mr. Hobson's garden. (110pp.) |
| Shreve, Susan | Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge. Fifth-grader Joshua must cope with a nerdy new kid and the class bully. (102pp.) |
| Stolz, Mary | The Bully Of Barkham Street. The other kids all think Martin is a bully. He isn't really -- it's just that no one understands him. (194pp.) |
| Tapp, Kathy Kennedy | Den 4 Meets The Jinx. Adam's sister Jessie always ruins his den meeting -- or so it seems. (118pp.) |
| Taylor, Sydney | All-Of-A-Kind Family. The adventures of a family living in New York City at the turn of the century. (189pp.) |
| Travers, Mary | Mary Poppins. The wind brings two English children a magical nanny. (206pp.) |
| Twohill, Maggie | Jeeter, Mason, and the Magic Headset. Jeeter starts getting messages about the future through her radio headset. (103pp.) |
| Weiss, Ellen | The Tiny Parents. When an experiment goes wrong and their inventor parents shrink until they are only 2 1/2 inches tall, it's up to Marie and Eddie to figure out how to get them back to normal. (82pp.) |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web. The classic story of true friendship between a pig and a spider. (184pp.) |
| Williams, Barbara | Mitzi And The Terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mitzi isn't sure she wants her mother to marry Walter, whose younger son is a three-year-old genius who thinks he is a dinosaur. (102pp.) |
| Williams, Jay | Danny Dunn And The Anti-Gravity Paint. When Danny tips over the mysterious jar of liquid, he has no way of knowing that he will involve himself and his friends in a wild flight between planets. (154pp.) |
| Wright, Betty Ren | The Ghost Of Popcorn Hill. Martin and Peter acquire a mischievous new dog and two lonely ghosts. (81pp.) |
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