Grade 4 Worksheets

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• Use clarifying questions to ask about confusing details from what a speaker shared.
• Use follow-up comments and follow-up questions to extend understanding by adding information and reasoning.
• Respond respectfully by connecting answers to the speaker’s purpose and using an appropriate speaking volume.

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• Identify common text features such as headings, captions, bold vocabulary, charts, diagrams, maps, timelines, and sidebars.
• Explain how text features help readers find information and connect ideas in a text.
• Use text features to support comprehension and create a clear summary of the main ideas.

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• Identify an author’s purpose by recognizing whether the text is intended to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade.
• Describe a viewpoint or attitude using language cues and selected details.
• Support an answer by citing evidence such as facts, examples, recommendations, and persuasive or emotional wording.

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• Identify causes and effects in a text by using details to explain how events are connected.
• Use signal words (like because, so, therefore, since) to support cause-and-effect understanding.
• Distinguish between an effect and its cause when summarizing or answering questions.

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• I can identify the main idea and key supporting details in a text.
• I can write a summary that keeps the original meaning and important order of events.
• I can remove minor details while keeping information needed for understanding.

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• Explain how evidence supports a claim by adding details and then giving a brief explanation of why the detail matters.
• Identify text details (facts, definitions, or descriptions) and match them to the claim they help prove.
• Revise writing to reduce empty restatement by strengthening the link between evidence and meaning.

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• Explain how text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections help clarify meaning.
• Describe how a connection is triggered by specific details from the text.
• Compare how different perspectives can change interpretation of the same idea.+ Show more

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• Explain how readers combine information from text and visuals (and audio or motion when available) to build meaning.
• Identify how captions, label placement, and timing help interpret a visual or video.
• Reconcile information when different modes agree or provide different details.+ Show more

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• Identify common safety hazards at home, school, and in the community
• Explain how safety rules and equipment (like helmets and seat belts) prevent injuries
• Describe safe actions to take when an accident or emergency happens

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• Identify ways communities celebrate reading, such as book festivals, reading challenges, and literacy programs
• Explain how books can build empathy and understanding in ourselves and others
• Create and plan a mini reading event that supports teamwork and positive community participation

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• Use sound patterns and word parts to spell correctly (vowels, plural endings, prefixes, and suffixes).
• Apply orthographic rules when adding endings, including dropping final e and doubling consonants before -ed and -ing.
• Correct common spelling errors involving homophones and plural choices (-s vs. -es).

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• Identify whether a sentence is written in present tense or past tense
• Choose verbs that match the time signals in a sentence and keep tense consistent across writing
• Revise sentences to correct tense shifts and improve writing coherence

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• Identify how adjective, adverbial, and prepositional phrases add descriptive detail to sentences.
• Choose the most precise placement of phrases to reduce ambiguity about what a phrase describes.
• Revise sentences by moving phrases to clarify meaning while keeping the original sentence structure.

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• Explain how respectful communication helps create a positive online community.
• Identify strategies for protecting personal information and others’ privacy online.
• Apply critical thinking to decide whether online content is trustworthy and appropriate.+ Show more

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• Identify early reasons communities created fire prevention and education campaigns.
• Use key fire safety vocabulary correctly, including words related to prevention and response.
• Explain how teamwork and safety awareness help reduce fire risks.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea as the central message of a paragraph or text
• Distinguish main-idea statements from supporting details and background information
• Use clues such as linking words and repeated ideas to help find the main idea

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• Use quotation marks to show exactly what a character says.
• Place commas and dialogue tags inside quotation marks when the quoted sentence is complete.
• Use question marks and exclamation points inside quotation marks when they belong to the quoted words.

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• Identify the subject and verb in a sentence to improve subject-verb agreement
• Choose correct verb forms by keeping tense consistent within a connected set of ideas
• Revise sentences so clarity increases in multi-clause and multi-phrase writing

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• Explain how collisions transfer energy and change motion.
• Use evidence to describe cause and effect in an energy transfer story.
• Connect changes in speed or direction to the way energy moves between objects.

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• Understand the importance of recycling and conservation in protecting Earth's resources.
• Identify different recyclable materials such as paper, plastic, and metal.
• Explain how recycling reduces pollution and saves energy.+ Show more

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• Write an opinion piece with a clear claim and reasons
• Use evidence (facts and details) from reading or research to support an opinion
• Connect each reason to the claim and explain how evidence supports it+ Show more

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• Identify biotic and abiotic habitat components and explain how each affects living things.
• Describe how shelter, food, water, space, and light help determine where organisms live.
• Explain the difference between habitat and niche using simple examples (pond edge vs. canopy).+ Show more

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• Use quotation marks to show direct speech (exact words spoken).
• Place punctuation and capitalization correctly inside quotation marks.
• Recognize how paired quotation marks mark where quoted text begins and ends.

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• Explain how listeners can follow spoken ideas when a message has a clear sequence.
• Use appropriate volume, pace, and emphasis to match the purpose and setting of a talk.
• Choose precise wording and avoid vague statements to make meaning clear.+ Show more

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• Use quotation marks to show direct speech and reproduced words.
• Place commas and end punctuation correctly with quotation marks.
• Distinguish narration from quoted dialogue in longer writing.

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• Identify how an author’s word choices and sentence patterns create a distinct voice in children’s literature.
• Explain how authors use language to show cultural identity, values, and themes of unity.
• Practice close reading by finding phrases that reveal who is speaking and what the author wants readers to understand.

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• Explain why day and night are about equal at the autumnal equinox
• Describe changes in nature as summer shifts into fall
• Identify how ancient cultures observed seasonal changes+ Show more

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• Describe how light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque materials
• Explain how surface and bulk properties affect colour, brightness, and heating
• Use optical behaviour to interpret everyday examples such as filters, pigments, clouds, and haze

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• Explain what an integrated summary is and how it differs from isolated mini-summaries.
• Identify main ideas and select the most critical supporting details from different sections of an informational text.
• Link ideas using logical relationships while keeping a consistent point of view.+ Show more

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• Identify how purpose and audience shape word choice, tone, and level of detail in writing
• Explain how a persuasive text supports claims with reasons and addresses possible concerns
• Compare informative writing that focuses on definitions and key facts+ Show more

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• I can describe a story’s major events in the correct order using a concise plot summary.
• I can explain cause-and-effect relationships using events from the text.
• I can paraphrase key moments without copying the original wording.+ Show more

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• Explain how Texas resources move through production to become finished goods and services.
• Identify examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities.
• Describe how trade and services help goods reach customers across regions.

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• Identify the correct end punctuation for statements, questions, and exclamations.
• Use periods, question marks, and exclamation points at the end of sentences.
• Revise writing by fixing missing or incorrect end punctuation to improve meaning.

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• Explain how media can influence health attitudes and behaviors.
• Identify strategies used in health-related advertising or online messages.
• Use critical thinking to judge whether a media message supports healthy choices.

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• Identify the stages of plot structure: introduction (setting and situation), rising tension, turning point, and resolution.
• Explain how one event leads to the next by using cause-and-effect language from a text.
• Use textual evidence to describe how conflict changes the direction of a story.

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• Identify how headings, captions, sidebars, and diagrams help a reader understand an informational text.
• Use text layout clues, such as sequence words and comparison cues, to explain how ideas connect.
• Locate and connect supporting details in the text to central ideas shown through text features.

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• Identify the main idea and the embedded (dependent) idea in complex sentences.
• Use subordinate words and precise phrases (time, cause, condition, contrast) to connect ideas clearly.
• Revise repeated or choppy sentences into one clear complex sentence without losing relationships.

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• Describe how energy moves through a food chain from producers to consumers and decomposers.
• Use arrows to show trophic relationships in a simple pond food chain and explain what each role does.
• Explain how a food web has multiple feeding connections and why removing one link can affect many species.

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• Identify health-related problems by describing what is happening and who is affected.
• Use a step-by-step problem-solving approach to generate options and choose a safer, healthier choice.
• Explain how checking results helps improve decisions and build self-confidence.

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• Use safe handling rules for sports equipment like balls, ropes, and mats
• Demonstrate safe movement skills for holding, launching, and catching
• Identify common hazards during physical activities and explain how to prevent injuries+ Show more

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• Describe how smooth surfaces create mirror images using the relationship between incident and reflected directions.
• Explain where a plane mirror image appears to be located and how lateral inversion affects that image.
• Compare specular and diffuse reflection and predict how surface texture changes image clarity.+ Show more

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• Use multiple contextual clues (synonyms, paraphrases, and descriptive details) to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
• Explain how cause-and-effect relationships in a text help narrow a word to the best meaning.
• Match a word’s meaning to the topic and the author’s purpose when the word has multiple senses.

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• Apply consistent editing decisions across a full draft, including word choice, punctuation, and capitalization.
• Check that tense and point of view stay consistent while revising descriptions or steps.
• Use a final proofread to correct spelling without changing the writer’s intended meaning.

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• Define relevant details and explain why they support a text-based main idea or answer.
• Select details from a passage that directly match a specific question or central point.
• Exclude unrelated information even when it is interesting.

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• Define pattern, trend, and prediction in the context of data over time.
• Identify patterns and trends in simple sets of results.
• Use data patterns to make and explain a prediction.+ Show more

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• Describe common ways Juneteenth is celebrated today, including parades, music, and storytelling
• Explain how cultural celebrations support pride, heritage, remembrance, and community unity
• Use descriptive language to compare traditions and their meanings

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• Define artificial intelligence and describe what it can do.
• Identify key AI vocabulary: prediction, pattern, and decision.
• Match AI terms to correct examples or definitions.+ Show more

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• Identify implied meaning in a story by using evidence from actions, dialogue, and word choice.
• Explain how outcomes and character choices help predict unstated feelings or motives.
• Distinguish between stated information and what is only suggested by clues.