Fourth Grade Reading and Writing Links
(4th Grade optional links)
- A Book That Shaped Me Summer Writing Contest
- MP1 Historical Fiction
Sign of the Beaver Background - MP2 Maryland Economics
City of Gaithersburg
Gaithersburg Land Use (Pages 6 and 7)
Gaithersburg QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau
Gaithersburg Zoning Map
Recreational Land Use
Search businesses in Gaithersburg - MP3 Media Messages
- MP4 Perspectives in Science and Social Studies
Reading for Literary Experience
MSA Practice
Reading to be Informed
- Kids Planet
- National Geographic for Kids
- Identifying Text Features
- Science Online
- Scholastic News
- Time For Kids
- SIRS Discoverer
- Teaching Books.net
- Kids Post
Poetry and Figurative Language
- Scholastic Poetry
- Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
- Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin
- Poetry Writing with Jean Marzollo
- Figurative Language (PDF)
- Idioms Activity (PDF)
- Metaphor Activity (PDF)
- Similie Activity (PDF) Click View, Toolbar, Formatting to be able to underline
- Jack Prelutsky's Webpage
- Shel Silverstein's Webpage
- Poetry 4 Kids
- The Children's Poetry Archive
- Giggle Poetry
- Whootie's Stories to Grow By
- Read, Write, Think Poetry:
Diamante's
Shape Poems
Acrostic
Fables and Fairy Tales
- Aesop's Fables
- Aesop's Fables
- More Aesop's Fables with Questions (What is the moral?)
- Animated Fables, including:
- Tortoise and the Hare
- A Lesson for Foolish Crow
- The Fox and His Shadow
- The Lion and the Mouse
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Andersen Fairy Tales
- Grimm Fairy Tales
- Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables with Jon Scieszka
Science Fiction
K.A. Applegate - Scholastic
Interview with K.A. Applegate