4th Grade

Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!

• Give your student a rich literary approach to language arts in grades 3 and 4.
• Help your student discover for himself key points of English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and elements of good writing.
• Keep interest and attention high through short lessons just twice a week.
• Confidently guide and evaluate your student’s progress in composition with the helpful tips and practical tools in the Teacher Guide & Answer Key.

Book 1

• identify each mark of punctuation in a sentence and explain why it is used there;
• alphabetize the months of the year;
• identify and define homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms;
• correctly spell irregular plural words;
• use a and an correctly;
• analyze contractions and compound words;
• detail prefixes, suffixes, and root words;
• identify types of sentences, syllables, and stanzas in a poem;
• and more! (See a complete list in the Placement Guide below.)

Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!

• Quickly confirm what your student learned in the Student Book through guided discovery and great literature.
• Keep on track with helpful teaching tips and practical reminders based on Charlotte Mason’s methods.
• Encourage your student to improve naturally in composition skills step by step.
• Evaluate your student’s narrations with confidence using the included rubrics and detailed instructions.
• Be assured your student is growing in language arts skills with Charlotte’s simple yet effective methods!

• Provides all of the answers to the lessons.
• Gives helpful and practical teaching tips to keep you on track.
• Walks you through the transition from transcription to prepared dictation as your student moves from third grade into fourth grade.
• Reminds you to have your fourth-grade student write one narration each week from his history, geography, Bible, or science reading.
• Supplies a set of 5 rubrics and detailed instructions to help you evaluate written narrations and track your student’s progress in capturing his thoughts on paper.
• Presents a complete list of English usage, capitalization, and punctuation points that are covered in Book 1.