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Reading

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4th Grade Reading-“Nothing Can Stop Her”

Directions: Read the article, “Nothing Can Stop Her” and complete the following questions. If you can, email a picture of your answers to your teacher.

  1. Why do you think the author includes questions in the first paragraph?
  2. What is the Project Unicorn?
  3. How did Jordan Reeves create the Project Unicorn?
  4. What is the purpose of Born Just Right?

4th Grade Reading-Clean Start

Directions: Read the story, Clean Start and complete the following questions. If you can, email a picture of your answers to your teacher.

  1. How do Max’s plans change from the beginning of the story to the end?
  2. Why does Max change his plans? Answer in a paragraph, using details to support your answer.

Writing

 

Online Journal #1

My extended break/thoughts and feelings

Write a half/full page journal about what you have been doing over your extended break. Tell me about how you have used your time, activities you have done, or any adjustments you have made to occupy your time.

Challenge-

-Write about how you have felt having to stay home and not go to school.

-How are you feeling about the changes?

How to submit

You can either:

Write the assignment on paper, take a picture, and email it to your teacher.

OR

Type it in a word document or directly in an email, and email it to your teacher.

Example of how to set up a journal

Journal #1/ Week 1

My extended break/thoughts and feelings

          From Spring break to now, so many interesting things have happened.

Journal guidelines

When writing a journal, you should be able to write to the topic as if you were telling a story (narrative) or explaining it (expository) to your teacher. Journals are meant to be written as a quick write without planning.

The expectations for journals are listed below, as well as an example:

  • Journals must be half a page to a full page in length. They can be more than a page long.
  • The journal number, as well as the week or date in the title, must be centered.
  • The topic of the journal should be written on the following line and centered.
  • The first line of the journal must be indented to start your paragraph.

Example:

Journal #1/week 1

The topic will go here.

            Each week, the sentence starter will address the topic. You are able to use the sentence starter to begin your journal, and then you will continue your writing from there. Do not worry about writing in a specific text structure unless your teacher specifies for you to. The length is a half-page to a page, but double spaced makes a big difference, not the size of the font. If you choose to type your journal, the font should be no more than 16. Journals are meant to express how you feel and to talk to your teacher/reader through your writing. Any extra information that adds detail to your journal topic, as well as any emotion you can show your reader, will help your journal. In addition, take a moment to describe a part of your story, whether it be a person/place/thing, to help your reader picture what you are writing.

When you are finished you can skip a line (as I just did) and write your final thought(s), however we never finish by saying “the end” in our journals. J

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Grammar

Weekly Grammar-4th Grade

Each day, if you can, please take a picture of your work and email to your teacher. E-mail will be shared through the method of communication currently in place, or it can be found on the teacher website.

Day 1
Write down 5 simple sentences. Focus on capitalizing and punctuating these sentences. Starting with a few sentences on day one, will help you later on when the writing assignments are lengthier. Examples: “I like ice cream.” Or, “The cat has a black patch on his paw.”

Day 2
Write down 6 complete, simple sentences. Combine them into compound sentences using our FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions) FANBOYS stands for: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Here is an example: My new puppy is cute. He is a lot of work. When I combine these two sentences using FANBOYS I must put a comma before the conjunction. My new compound sentence should now say, “My new puppy is cute, but he is a lot of work.” (Yet works also) You must use your critical thinking skills to figure out which one works best. The conjunction “And” sounds okay, but “but/yet” work best in this case.

Day 3
Write 2-5 dialogue sentences. The tag (person who said it) can go before or after the quotation. If it comes before, we need a comma before we open the quotation mark. The first letter of the first word inside of the quotation should always be capitalized. Don’t forget that when the tag is first ending punctuation of the sentence goes inside of the quotation marks. Example: My mom said, “We are going to see Mr. Thomas tomorrow.” If the tag comes at the end, the comma goes inside of the quotation marks and the ending punctuation mark goes at the end of the sentence after the tag. Example: “We are going to see Mr. Thomas tomorrow,” my mom said.

Day 4
Read the Countdown passage on the back of this sheet and answer questions. Show your thinking! Remember to eliminate those “tricky trash” answer choices that could neeeeever be right. Identify the “distractor factor” and compare it to the answer you think is right. Plug them into the sentence if necessary.

Day 5
Write a paragraph explaining how the skills you worked on during Days 1-4 of grammar will help you in your writing!

Word Study

Spelling Week 1 (3/23-3/27)

4th Grade

Most of the time when a noun ends in an f or fe, you will change the f or fe to ves to make the noun plural.

Note: Your spelling word is the bolded plural word. You have a total of 10 regular words.

1. calf - calves

2. half - halves

3. knife - knives

4. leaf - leaves

5. loaf - loaves

6. life - lives

7. wife - wives

8. shelf - shelves

9. thief - thieves

10. yourself - yourselves

 

***Challenge Words***

There is always exceptions to our spelling rules.  Every now and then you have a noun that ends with f and it can be made plural just by adding an s or you can make it plural by replacing the f with ves.

If you know you need a challenge in spelling, then include the following six words on your list.

12. scarf - scarfs/scarves

13. dwarf - dwarfs / dwarves

14. handkerchief - handkerchiefs / handkerchieves

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