Coco's 4th Grade Reading List

My Coco is a reader. She usually reads at least a book a week and sometimes reads smaller books throughout.
Together, she and I made up a suggested reading list for 4th grade.
She will be expected to read everyday and write a paragraph in her reading journal about what she wrote. When she finishes a book, she gets a choice of 4 of the book reports I found on www.enchantedlearning.com We have made shoebox dioramas, hanger mobiles, posters... Her favorite (cause I just asked her) is making a tri-fold brochure advertising the book. She prints pictures relating to the book and attempts to sell it.

Here is Coco's Suggested Reading List for 4th Grade

Charlotte's Web by E.B White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mouse on a Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Wayside Series by Louis Sachar
The Ramona Series by Beverly Cleary
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Half Magic by Edward Eager
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
A Llama in the Family by Johanna Hurwitz
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman
Frindle by Andrew Clements

One of the things we like to do is have a group of our friends read the same books at the same time, so we can 1) discuss it together and 2) see the movie afterwards together. This worked out really well with Coraline for Coco and her friends and Inkheart for Lola and her friends.

Coco's 4th Grade Curriculum - Language Arts

This is my favorite.. I love L.A. and so does Coco. And this year I got lucky! I grabbed a Language Arts book of the shelf in the dining room and it turned out to be a 4th grade Language Arts book! Flipping though it, I correlated the lessons with pages from the CC and from her Scholastic Grammar book. We are also focusing on neater handwriting and letter writing this year. I bought a beautiful stationary set for her and she is now looking for a penpal. This will help her learn sentence structure, paragraph formation and how to write a formal letter (not email lol)
We also have an extra sheet of grammar, spelling, vocab or whatnot every Wednesday from the CC book that didn't really do with any of the lessons.
We aren't going the full 38 weeks with Language Arts this year. Im confident we are cramming 38 weeks into our 36 LOL.

I don't think we need anything else for this year for this class...
1) Word Order and Meaning - text and workbook pages
2) Questions - text and wb pages
3) Start Poetry- this will go on every Monday for the rest of the year
4) Two Parts of a Sentence - textbook pages
5) Nouns - text and wb pages
6) Determiners - text and wb pages + an activity
7) Nouns in the Subject- text and wb pages
8) Pronouns- text and wb pages
9) Subjects- text and wb pages
10) Subject and Predicates- text and wb pages + an activity
11) Singular Nouns Showing Ownership- text and wb pages
12)Types of Sentences- workbook pages
13) Compound Words - text an wb pages
14) Days and Months (Capitalization)- text and wb pages + making calendars as gifts
15) Letter Writing Review - text and wb pages
16) Understanding a Table of Contents- text an wb pages
17) Library Skills- have many workbook pages
18) Dictionary Work- txt and wb pages
19) Tall Tales- will be doing these all week and then once a month- wb pages
20) Giving and Understanding Directions- text and wb pages
21) Homophones- text and wb pages
22) Homonyms- text and wb pages
23) Synonyms- text and wb pages
24) Antonyms- text and wb pages + review of past four weeks with games
25) Prefixes - text and wb pages + magnet game we made last year
26) Suffixes - text and wb pages + magnet game
27) Combination Pre/Suf Words- text and wb pages
28) Picture Words- textbook pages
29) Making an Advertisement- text and wb page
30) Adjectives- text and wb pages and Apples to Apples :)
31) Adverbs- text and wb pages
32) Verbs- text and wb pages
33) Verbs Cont.- text and wb pages
34) Contractions- text and wb pages
35) Review
36) Review and Testing

Language 4 by Laidlaw