Suggestions for being a good listener and participant are also included to encourage children to talk about what they are reading. Find The Book Club Kit at your local library. In this book, girls learn the importance of friends and making a friendship work. These real-life stories, activities and quizzes can be read alone or with a friend. Does the thought of memorizing your multiplication facts drive you crazy? Are you tired of those pesky speed drills in math class? If you want a fun way to learn how to multiply, you must read this clever picture book.
Tang uses simple rhymes and puzzles to help students understand the concept of multiplication. Find Crazy Cars at your local library. This book outlines over a dozen famous frauds from the s to the present, including P.
Find Fooled You! Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years at your local library. Even reluctant readers will enjoy the clear, direct text, short length, and dramatic content. We can even hope that this brilliant book, with its awards and attendant success, may lead to a renaissance of books for kids that make history come alive. In 19 monologues and two dialogs in verse and prose, the lives of a cast of characters from a medieval village — nobles and peasants, but all children — are illuminated.
Through them, along with margin notes and periodic background sections, a portrait of life in the Middle Ages is created. Find Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village at your local library. You may want to discuss the concept of class differences with your kids. Visuals abound and the book concludes with some significant ways for kids to make a difference. This guide will educate and empower young readers, leaving them with the knowledge they need to understand this problem and a sense of hope to inspire them into action.
A practical guide to conserving resources and protecting the environment, each brief chapter of 50 Simple Things provides information and tips designed to inspire ideas and action. The book also explains how everyday items — like a light switch or a toilet — are connected to the rest of the world.
Fun ideas for the whole family to discuss and implement! Like eco-Nancy Drews, the characters of the Gaia Girls series will appeal to girls ready to take on modern-day environmental challenges. Illustrated throughout, this chapter book is for more mature fourth-grade readers, as it does not pull any punches when taking on subjects like factory farming. Highly recommended for its compelling story and sensitivity to current issues. Find Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth at your local library.
This book has everything a budding spy or cryptographer wants to know about creating codes, ciphers, and the methods of concealment. An answer key provides a great opportunity to practice new skills from pictographs to Igpay Atinlay. This is an ear-to-ear-grinningly delightful school story. Parents need to know that there is nothing to be concerned about here and lots to cheer.
Families can talk about silence and civil disobedience. Why does the silence seem so powerful? What do you think of the standoff between Dave and the principal? Find No Talking at your local library.
Fourteen-year-old orphan Widge works for a mean and unscrupulous master who goes by the name of Falconer. Ordered to steal the script for Hamlet, Widge is taken to London and forced to attend a performance of the play.
Instead of concentrating on stealing the script, he becomes engrossed in the show. Reluctantly, Widge admits his failure to Falconer and is told to return until his mission is accomplished. Nothing goes as planned and a very surprised Widge finds himself an accepted member of the backstage crew. Once a lonely outcast, he has friends and a place to call home for the first time in his life.
Will he have the moral integrity to disobey his master or will he betray his new family? Set in Elizabethan London, The Shakespeare Stealer introduces us to Shakespearean stagecraft, life on the streets of London and to the truth behind the youthful appearance of Queen Elizabeth I! Find The Shakespeare Stealer at your local library.
Part of the Eyewitness Books series, Natural Disasters covers a wide variety of natural disasters, from earthquakes to epidemics. Written in plain language and illustrated with spectacular photos and diagrams, it contains a wealth of valuable information, including a historical timeline of major disasters, a glossary, and a list of Web and real-world resources natural history and science museums for additional research. Find Natural Disasters at your local library. With his hallmark wit and humor, Dahl tells the tale of Matilda, a child prodigy who defends her sweet teacher against the terrible school principal, Mrs.
Children will love learning about Matilda and her extraordinary powers. Find Matilda at your local library. Take a spunky heroine competently surviving on her own on a deserted island the ultimate kid fantasy.
Add in animal friends who seem to understand, the vaguest of villains hovering in the background and easily overcome, a smattering of scientific information effortlessly absorbed and a very satisfying conclusion. Then write it in breezy style, making the various pieces of the story fit together in a nicely coincidental, jigsaw-puzzle way. All together it makes for one delightful story.
Check out the sweetly imaginative, family-friendly film starring Jodie Foster. The Tucks will never die, which turns out to be less of a blessing than one might think. A gentle but powerful reflection on mortality, and on what constitutes a meaningful life. Check out the adaptation, in which the character Winnie is 15 instead of Find Tuck Everlasting at your local library.
This was her first sighting of Dustfinger, one of many colorful characters that her father brought to life from the pages of the book Inkheart. In fact, Meggie does not know this yet, but this is how her own mother disappeared nine years before.
Now, the evil Capricorn wants another character brought to life, and is determined to have Mo read aloud. This fascinating multi-layered story is an enjoyable but dark read for anyone who loves a good story within a story. Find Inkheart at your local library. It turns out that his disappearance is connected with his scientific work, and Meg, her brilliant little brother, and her friend Calvin set out to find him — a search that takes them on an exciting but dangerous galactic adventure.
Check out the adaptation, which dramatizes the struggle between good and evil, or the new release coming spring Find A Wrinkle in Time at your local library. A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert. A thousand miles from any habitation, while attempting to fix his plane, he meets a strangely dressed little boy who seems to have come from nowhere, and who demands that he draw a sheep.
Gradually the Little Prince reveals his story. He comes from a small asteroid, where he lives alone until a rose grows there. But the rose is demanding, and he is confused by his feelings about her. Eventually he decides to leave and journey to other planets in search of knowledge. After meeting many confusing adults, he eventually lands on Earth, where he befriends a snake and a fox.
The fox helps him to understand the rose, and the snake offers to help him return to his planet — but at a price. Many adults look back on this book with a catch in the throat and have a special place for it in their hearts.
There quite literally has never been anything like it, though others have certainly tried. Find The Little Prince at your local library. Hugo is an orphan who tends the clocks in a Paris train station. He lives a lonely existence in the shadows of the station, stealing food and dodging the Station Inspector. One day he encounters a flinty old man who has even more secrets than he does.
This powerful story is beautifully illustrated to create the pace and visual effects of a movie. Find The Invention of Hugo Cabret at your local library.
New readers and those familiar with Laura Ingalls and her family will love following along as Laura takes them through a year in the life of the little family of pioneers. She lives in a little house in the big woods where she and her siblings work hard at their many chores, mind their ma and pa, go to school all in one room and have lots of frontier adventures.
Check out the TV series, which loosely follows the storylines of all of the Little House books. Find Little House in the Big Woods at your local library. In fact, many teachers today use it as part of their language arts curriculum.
Poppers Penguins is a good fit for most first- and second-grade readers, and can also be read aloud to kindergartners. Want to watch the movie? The adaptation is only loosely based on the original story but has plenty of slapstick gags to keep the elementary school crowd entertained.
Find Mr. Find When You Reach Me at your local library. Please enter a valid email address. Thank you for signing up! Server Issue: Please try again later. Sorry for the inconvenience. Parenting » Book lists » Favorite books for 4th graders. Favorite books for 4th graders Our panel of children's book experts recommends these great books for your fourth grader. Perfect for: Kids who like adventure stories. Perfect for: Kids with siblings, older and younger.
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Parenting » Reading » 4th grade reading under Common Core Standards. Specific decoding skills your child should show this year include: Putting together compound words e. Figuring out the meaning when with common prefixes and suffixes are added to a base word e. When you add pre- to heats , what does it mean? What does the suffix -ly do to the meaning of sharp? Decoding dozens of multisyllabic words, from com-pen-sate to sy-no-nym , as well as read grade-level irregularly spelled words, such as though and Wednesday.
Specific fluency skills your child should show this year: Reading with enough accuracy to understand the material. After multiple readings, reading aloud smoothly and with plenty of expression. Share on Pinterest. Get the GreatSchools newsletter — our best articles, worksheets and more delivered weekly.
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I'm interested in grades: PreK K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th. Books for grade 4 — this list of suggested reading books for grade 4 children has been curated and compiled for elementary school children aged There is a range of exciting and thought-provoking books to suit all abilities, including easy readers and more difficult texts.
Over the course of a year, these stories should inspire both those who find reading a struggle, and also challenge more confident pupils. This list of 4th-grade reading recommendations was last edited on Oct 24, pm For prices, please click on the book covers. An informative and factual middle-grade book, reflecting on the repercussions of the Indian Relocation Act.
Regina and her family are told that her tribe no longer exists and they are forced to move to Los Angeles. A useful book to spark discussions about race and American identity. An epic fantasy story about wars between tribes of dragons. A beautifully illustrated book full of classic fables including funny stories and stories which will get your child to think. Milo is bored with everything and has nothing to do. But one day a tollbooth unexpectedly appears in his room.
When Milo goes into the tollbooth he finds himself transported into another world which is far more interesting than his real life.
A modern classic. An ideal book to get your child interested in reading. Alice travels down a rabbit hole into a strange and unexpected world where nothing is quite as it seems. Danger and uncertainty lurk.
When Roz the robot finds herself unexpectedly marooned on an island, she knows she needs to learn how to survive — fast — in this fast-paced thriller. A more advanced book for grade 4 children.
The complete set of captivating adventure novels based on Greek gods, myths, and fantastic creatures — told in a modern and fast-paced style. An atmospheric and page-turning mystery novel set beneath the Biltmore Hotel. Children start vanishing — can Serafina and her friend Braeden find out why?
A gripping read for grade 4 children. The illustrated life story of Louis Braille and how he invented a system of reading for the blind. When Dad goes out to buy the groceries and takes rather longer than expected; he has some incredible stories to tell about his perilous quest for breakfast cereals — involving pirates, aliens, and wumpires.
Very funny. George invents a medicine that might just cure everything. Ideal for group reading in grade 4. A young orphan lives with his Norwegian grandmother who tells him incredible stories about evil witches who can smell children. Then he meets some. Will he find a way to elude them? A favorite book for grade 4 students.
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