Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
Students will learn how to draw a line of best fit for a set of data using m&m's and a "Bungee."
Strategy to help students recognize cause and effect relationships provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes simple instructions and a visual.
Site provides extensive assistance in prepraring 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section helps students identify cause and effect in literature.
This Cause and Effect graphic organizer helps students organize information from a text they are reading.
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.
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.
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.
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section teaches students to use graphic organizers.
Students participate as a class in this activity using their desks as points on the coordinate plane. The teacher leads them in the activity, increasing their understanding of the characteristics of the coordinate plane.
This activity allows students to physically create a number line and work on adding and subtracting integers. This lesson can be adapted to include other concepts with real numbers.
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of Aristotle, and a variety of teaching support materials, such as graphic organizers, are included for a limited number of titles.
The texts of three classic fairy tales, as told by Joseph Jacobs. They are: "Jack, the Giant Killer," "The Cat and the Mouse," and "Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!" The text can be read online or downloaded by individual stories in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each story has downloadable support material which focuses on various reading skills and strategies.
This resource offers the complete texts of four of Andersen's best-known fairy tales: The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Swineherd." The texts can be read online or downloaded in MP3 format. In addition, each story has downloadable support material which focuses on various reading skills and strategies.
This resource presents text of two folk tales collected by Norwegian writer, Peter Christian Asbjornsen. The tales are "The Greedy Youngster," and "Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh." The text can be read online or downloaded in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each story has downloadable support material which focuses on various reading skills and strategies.