Strategies to help students recognize the order of events in a selection provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as plot diagrams, probable passages, story mapping, summary blueprints, and timelines.

The site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th-grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the chronological order.

This Chronological Order graphic organizer allows students to order events from text they are reading.

Strategies to help students recognize similarities and differences provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Character Frames, Character Mapping, Semantic Feature Analysis, Three-Column Notes, and Venn Diagrams.

Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan), Probable Passage, Semantic Feature Analysis, Vocabulary Prediction/Confirmation, and Vocabulary Mapping.

Students learn how to create stem-and-leaf diagrams and boxplots by collecting data on the surface tension of water molecules. This hands-on activity using pennies is a great way to learn how to organize data.

Students learn about proportions using regular and souvenir baseball bats. This site contains a complete lesson plan, which is available in a printable version.

Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's Purpose," "QAR (Question/Answer Relationship)," and "What's the Purpose?"

Ben Franklin is the subject of this passage and the comprehension questions which follow. The test is interactive online, and may be printed for use in the classroom by going to the site map and choosing PRINTABLE MATERIALS.

Adapted from Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park brochure, this article gives an excellent overview of the nature preserve and its history. The quiz offers feedback immediately.

Students use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.

Provides nine interactive, online practice tests for the fourth grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). Each test uses a number of reading skills and uses both multiple choice questions and short written responses. It provides immediate feedback to the multiple choice questions as well as sample answers to the written responses. Although this test is specific to Florida, many of the skills it covers apply to reading in any setting.

This page gives students a guide for problem solving. A list of strategies is presented, and each strategy has an example to demonstrate it.

Students use their height and the length of the shadow to determine the height of buildings. A great outdoor activity to learn about proportions and ratios.

Has a large group of vertebrate fossil pictures, a guide on preparing fossils, and much more.

Strategies to help students recognize the difference between fact and opinion provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes teaching ideas such as analyzing facts and opinions in newspapers, and opinion/ proof notes.

A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, a book of stories for children.

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, a book of stories for children.

A lesson plan in which students preview a text and complete a graphic organizer to activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete a graphic organizer to show prior knowledge. Materials are included.