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Week 25
Root Words
Root Words
Understanding the meanings of root words is an important piece of your child's foundation in language. Support your child by creating a root word journal or dictionary together. This will serve as a resource for your young learner while building vocabulary and reading more complex texts.
Understanding root words and their meanings is a foundational piece of language. This is crucial as students read more complex texts and come across unfamiliar words. Support your students by having them create a Root Word Dictionary to keep track of a variety of root words and their meanings.
Root Word Study: Rupt
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Root Word Study: Rupt
Understanding root words is crucial for learning the meaning of unfamiliar words and building vocabulary. Use this resource to study the root word RUPT.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
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Root Word Study: Sign
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Root Word Study: Sign
In this vocabulary-building worksheet, third graders will discover words with the root word "sign," which means to mark or seal.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
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Root Word Study: Spect
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Root Word Study: Spect
In this vocabulary-building worksheet, third graders will discover words with the root word "spect," which means to look.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Word Problems & Mathematical Practices
Word Problems & Mathematical Practices
Find ways to support your child with increasingly complex word problems. When tasked with solving a multi-step, mixed-operation word problem, have your child go back to the basics. Identify the question, pick out clue words, and work through the problem step by step. Help them figure out if it makes sense to add, subtract, multiply, or divide. For a fun challenge, encourage your child to write new word problems.
Teach your students to hone in on important information as they work through word problems. First, identify the question that is being asked; next, find the "clue words" that can guide students through the operations. After your students get a firm handle on solving multi-step word problems with mixed operations, challenge them to write their own.
Snack Time Multiplication
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Snack Time Multiplication
Indulge in some delicious multiplication with this word problem worksheet that helps kids practise times tables and double-digit multiplication skills.
Year 4
Maths
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Multiplication Word Problems
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Multiplication Word Problems
It's a multiplication wonderland! Review those times tables with these multiplication word problems.
Year 4
Maths
Worksheet
Sea Creatures Word Problems: Multi-Step Subtraction and Multiplication
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Sea Creatures Word Problems: Multi-Step Subtraction and Multiplication
This underwater-themed worksheet is a playful way for learners to practise solving multi-step word problems.
Year 4
Maths
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Compare & Contrast
Compare & Contrast
Support your child as they master the important skill of identifying similarities and differences in the stories they read. Give your student short texts to practise on, using graphic organizers like venn diagrams and story maps to help them visually organise information.
Support your students as they master the important skill of identifying similarities and differences in the stories they read. Give your class short texts to practise on, using graphic organizers like venn diagrams and story maps to help them visually organise information.
Compare Story Elements
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Compare Story Elements
Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts
Year 4
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: First Day at the New School
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Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: First Day at the New School
In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
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Graphic Organizer Template: Venn Diagram
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Graphic Organizer Template: Venn Diagram
Use this two-circle Venn diagram template in instruction, or as a guide for student work.
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Informative Writing
Informative Writing
Give your child tools and strategies that will help them blossom as young writers. Help your child recognise paragraph structure, and encourage frequent practise with short prompts. Use prewriting tools like graphic organizers to help your child organise their thoughts as they begin a more focused piece of writing.
Give students tools and strategies that will help them blossom as young writers. Help learners recognise paragraph structure, and encourage frequent practise with short prompts. Use prewriting tools like graphic organizers to help students organise their thoughts as they begin a more focused piece of writing.
On-Demand Idea Organizer
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On-Demand Idea Organizer
This exercise helps students pre-write their ideas in an organized way when faced with an on-demand writing prompt.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
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Writing a Paragraph
Worksheet
Writing a Paragraph
Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practise writing a paragraph.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
The Upside-Down Traffic Lights Paragraph
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The Upside-Down Traffic Lights Paragraph
Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.
Year 4
Reading & Writing
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