US homeschool curriculum · 4th grade
4th Grade Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for 4th grade: 27 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take 4th Grade Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Read words ending in -ably and -ibly: Can read and build adverbs like comfortably, possibly and terribly.
- More silent letters: Can spell words with silent letters such as knuckle, wrinkle, honest, answer and sword.
- Read 4th grade words: Can read words such as community, immediately, privilege and thorough in a sentence.
Spelling
- -ably and -ibly: Can spell adverbs like reasonably, incredibly and horribly.
- -ancy and -ency: Can spell nouns like hesitancy, frequency and emergency.
- Make verbs with -ate, -ise and -ify: Can turn a noun or adjective into a verb: pure → purify, apology → apologize.
- Homophones and confusable words: Can choose between farther/father, altar/alter, bridal/bridle, descent/dissent and similar pairs.
- Spell 4th grade words: Can spell words such as community, immediately, privilege and thorough.
- Doubling and drop-e in longer words: Can spell beginning, traveling, admitted, hoping and offered correctly.
Grammar
- Find the relative clause: Can pick out the relative clause (starting who, which, that, whose, where, when) in a sentence.
- Find the modal verb: Can pick out the modal verb (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) in a sentence.
- Nouns and adjectives into verbs: Can choose the verb made from a noun or adjective (dark → darken, class → classify).
- Verb prefixes: Can say what a verb prefix such as de-, over-, mis- or re- does to the meaning.
- Adverbs of possibility: Can pick the adverb that shows how likely something is (perhaps, probably, certainly).
- Cohesion within a paragraph: Can choose the adverbial that keeps the order of events clear (firstly, after that, finally).
Punctuation
- Find the parenthesis: Can pick out the extra information set off by parentheses, dashes or commas.
- Where does the comma go?: Can place a comma so that a sentence means what is intended.
- Speech split by a reporting clause: Can punctuate speech where the reporting clause comes in the middle.
Vocabulary
- Synonyms and antonyms: Can choose a synonym or an antonym for a given word.
- Unfamiliar words in context: Can work out the meaning of a harder word from the sentence around it.
- What the figurative language means: Can say what a simile or metaphor is really telling the reader.
Reading comprehension
- Infer feelings and thoughts: Can work out what a character is thinking or feeling and point to the evidence.
- Predict from the details: Can predict what might happen next from details the author has planted.
- Main ideas across two paragraphs: Can identify the main idea that two paragraphs share.
- Using headings to find information: Can say which section of a non-fiction text a piece of information belongs under.
Writing
- Proofread 4th grade writing: Can spot the sentence with no errors in parenthesis, relative clauses, modal verbs or spelling.
- Show, don't tell: Can choose the sentence that shows a feeling through action rather than stating it.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.