Fourth
Grade Language Arts Curriculum with
Reading, Spelling, and Handwriting
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McRuffy 4th
Grade is only available directly from McRuffy Press.
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The 4th Grade Language Arts program incorporates reading, spelling,
word study, writing, language and grammar into one comprehensive
program. Building upon the SE programs from previous levels, the
4th grade program goes beyond phonics and helps students gain a
better understanding of the English language with studies in word
structure, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
The 4th grade level offers reading materials, a complete teacher's
manual, a language workbook, and spelling workbook as in the previous
levels. A new workbook is added. The Reading and Writing workbook
provides a wide variety of guided writing exercises based off of
reading experiences.
With the 4th Grade Language Arts program, students will be prepared
to take language and reading to a new level.

4th Grade Language Arts / Spelling
and Reading Curriculum:
- The Teacher's Manual features daily lesson
plans. The lessons are integrated with language, spelling, and handwriting. Reading
materials are integrated with creative writing, reading comprehension, vocabulary
development, and handwriting. The teacher's manual is published in two volumes
for easier handling.
Sample
Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Manual
- Two color workbooks
provide a wide variety
of activities to reinforce reading, language, and spelling
concepts with challenging, engaging, and enjoyable materials to support the lessons.
The workbooks are spiral bound to lay flat or fold back completely. Activities
cover spelling, reading comprehension and much more.- The Language Arts
workbook contains language and grammar activities, and additional reading
materials.
- The Spelling workbook contains activities emphasizing
word structure, spelling rules, phonics, and spelling.
See
sample Language Arts workbook pages See
sample Spelling workbook pages
- Reading and Writing workbook featuring activities
that interact with the reading books. Writing activities
integrate with stories to encourage writing for different
purposes. Story structure activies, character analysis,
story evaluation, graphic representations, and more are
covered in the Reading and Writing workbook.
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- The original stories
included in the fourth grade program will challenge young readers to build on
their skills and take their abilities farther. Students read a chapter a day of
approximately 1000 words. Stories are bound in a three volume set. Reading materials
feature a wide range of stories, some featuring characters from previous levels,
plus many new characters.
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- The 4th
Grade McRuffy Handwriting books assist students in improving
penmanship. The handwriting books integrate spelling and
vocabulary word practice.
Handwriting
Books are sold separately. | |
4th Grade Language Concepts Taught:
Language
concepts explore sentence structure, grammar, language reasoning such as analogies
and categorizing, punctuation, and language usage are taught in the Langauage
Arts workbook.
The 4th Grade
McRuffy Handwriting book are sold separately.
Individual Materials:
The 4th
Grade McRuffy Handwriting books are sold separately.
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