WEEK OF MAY 25,2009 4TH GRADE

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS- GRADE 4 The blog for this week in Reading and Language Arts will be the Review for the Final Exams. We will take be reviewing all the vocabulary words, phonic skills, spelling words and grammar in class. The children should do the same at home. I will be giving CW and HW during the week to help the children practice the skills. Please check the Assignment Book or blog each day to check for any changes or homework assignments. If you have a question about anything on the blog, please send me a note or see me. HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!! REVIEW FOR READING: READING EXAM 1. Vocabulary Words: know the meaning of the vocabulary words from the following stories: A. What Jo Did B. Coyote School News C. Grace and the Time Machine D. Marven of the Great North Woods E. S0 You Want to be President F. The Stranger The definition of each word can be found in your child's Reading Notebook listed under the name of each story. If your child was absent for any of the words, you can check the Reading Text Book for the words and the definitions are in the glossary. Review pages in the New York Practice Book that we have done. 2. Spelling: The children should know the Spelling Words for the stories above. The spelling words can be found in the notebook and also the spelling book Other skills that should be reviewed and are reviewed in the Reading Notebook are: 1. Synonyms- words that mean nearly the same eg. big, large 2. Antonyms- words that are opposites eg. hot, cold 3. Homophones- words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings eg. I, eye 4. Multiple Meaning Words- words that are spelled the same, sound the same, but have different meanings eg. trunk- An elephant has a trunk. I put the groceries in the trunk of the car. 5. Syllabication- the number of vowel sounds that you hear in a word eg. rainbow has 2 syllables because the long a sound is heard in the first syllable and the long o sound is heard in the second syllable. 6. Root Words- the base word eg. walked the root word is “walk”. The word without any prefixes or endings. 7. Prefixes- letters that are added to the beginning of a word and change its meaning eg. redo- re is a prefix that means to “do over again” 8. Suffixes- letters that are added to the end of a word and change its meaning eg. wishful- ful is a suffix that means “full of” 9. Compound Words- two complete words that are put together to make a new word eg. rain + bow = rainbow 10. Contractions- two words are combined by using an apostrophe to make a word shorter eg. I will – I’ll, I am- I’m LANGUAGE ARTS EXAM 1. Nouns – review pp. 21-40 in Grammar and Writing Handbook A. Common and Proper Nouns B. Singular and Plural Nouns C. Irregular Plural Nouns D. Singular Possessive Nouns E. Plural Possessive Nouns 2. Verbs- pp. 41-56 A. Action and Linking Verbs B. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs C. Subject-Verb Agreement D. Past, Present, and Future Tenses