Welcome to 4th grade!

This year we will be going on a language arts journey. Our first stop will be at the story of Because of Winn Dixie by Katie DiCamillo. We will be reading a short passage of the realistic fiction story. We will have quizzes after reading the stories in the Journeys book to see how well we understood what we read, leaned new vocabulary words and how well we learned our new spelling words. I will be posting each story as we read it. So please check back to see what we will be learning about each story.

Vocabulary  

comfort             consisted

mention            positive                                      

mood                 advanced

properly            peculiar                                 

intends              talent                                  

Target Skill

Story Structure

Target Strategy   

Summarize

Genre

Realistic Fiction is a present day 

story that could take place in real life.

Spelling Words:

blade        gray       past        afraid

magic       delay     amaze    drain

maybe      break     sale        hang

stain         glass     raft          jail

crayon     fact        stale       steak