Fourth Grade Reading while enhancing and/or maintaining your child's academic skills and strategies with fun-filled weekly themed units! 

Each week students will engage in a fun theme that includes essential components of reading instruction:
*comprehension
* vocabulary
*fluency
*phonological awareness
*phonics and word analysis

Other literacy topics include:
*grammar, writing and visual discrimination

Students will work with a small group and the teacher to complete the daily activity.

Sample week: *Note: Skills and strategies change weekly to enrich or enhance student's learning
Monday: Students will be introduced to their weekly story (Fluency) and comprehension activity
Tuesday- Phonics/Phonemic Awareness Activities
Wednesday: Vocabulary/writing/grammar

*Weekly Theme Topics* This is a 8 week Summer Camp! :)

Week of June 3rd:  ( Week 1: This week starts Thur-Sat ONLY)
The Lion and the Mouse- recalling details, relating personal experiences, sequencing, categorizing words that describe character traits, synonyms, onomatopoetic words, irregular verbs.

Week of June 10th: 
An Oregon Trail Diary- recalling details, sequencing, drawing conclusions, interpreting graphic information, critical thinking, categorizing, compound words.

Week of June 17th: 
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Jug- making inferences, sequencing, recalling details, understanding word meaning, suffixes, reading with expression, alphabetical order

Week of June 24th:
The Three Sillies-recalling details, creative thinking, sequencing, using context, understanding word meaning, comparative & superlative words, reading with expression.

Week of July 1st: 
Penguins, Pelicans, and Puffins- true or false, sequencing, recalling details, understanding word meaning, using words in context, reading with accuracy, writing sentences correctly, recognizing the correct spelling.

No Class the Week of July 8th-14th 

Week of July 15th: 
Leprechauns- recalling details, identifying realism and fantasy, similes, interpreting graphic information, understanding word meaning, long vowel spelling, unscrambling words from a story.

Week of July 22nd: 
The Legend of Blackbeard the Pirate- recalling details, making inferences, drawing on personal experie3nces, sequencing, critical thinking, interpreting graphic information, understanding word meaning, synonyms, homophones, alphabetical order

Week of July 29th: 
Updated Shortly

 Small assignments after class will also be assigned.