Fourth GradeHP Internet Activities by Story

(The activities listed directly under the themes and not under the stories are to be used as desired during the time your students are working on that theme.) Proofreading Makes Perfect has two different kinds of activities. One is online. It has practice exercises for Capitalization & Punctuation, Spelling, Usage, and Putting it Together. *The other are downloadable sheets for some of the stories below. Homework Helper has a five day list of activities for each story including a list of story words, spelling words, and activities to do for a given story.

Theme 1 Look Inside Writing Detective-Personal Narrative Grammar Park Practice-Sentence Sea Park; Subject Slide; Predicates in Space Go for Grammar Gold! Sentences; Subjects/Nouns; Predicates/Verbs; Quotation Marks & Colons Homework Helper for Look Inside
The Hot and Cold Summer Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots	Sees Behind Trees Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements Proofreading Makes Perfect	Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots
Dear Mrs. Parks Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Make Judgments	Elena Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements Proofreading Makes Perfect
Theme 2 Teamwork Writing Detective-How-to Essay Grammar Park Practice-Sentence Power; Spotlight on Clauses; Sentence Sort; Noun Dunk; Noun Explorer Go for Grammar Gold! Simple & Compound Sentences; More About Sentences; Commas; Phrases & Clauses; Complex Sentences; More About Nouns Homework Helper for Teamwork
We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Draw Conclusions	Folk Tales from Asia- Who Is Best? and Virtue Goes to Town Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Summarize/Paraphrase Test Tutor-Figurative Language Summarize/Paraphrase Proofreading Makes Perfect
Iditarod Dream Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Draw Conclusions	Woodsong Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Summarize/Paraphrase Test Tutor-Summarize/Paraphrase Figurative Language	Island of the Blue Dolphins Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements Figurative Language Proofreading Makes Perfect
Theme 3 Changing Planet Writing Detective-Persuasive Writing Grammar Park Practice-Possessive Noun Desert; The Pronoun Clubhouse; Mixed-Up Pronouns; Exploring the Pronoun Reef Go for Grammar Gold! Possessive Nouns; Pronouns; More About Pronouns Homework Helper for Changing Planet
Everglades Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots	Summer of Fire Author's and Illustrators Building Background Test Tutor-Text Structure: Sequence Proofreading Makes Perfect	Oceans Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Test Tutor-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Text Structure: Sequence
Seeing Earth from Space Author's and Illustrators Building Background	The Case of the Flying Saucer People Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Test Tutor-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Text Structure: Sequence Proofreading Makes Perfect
Theme 4 Express Yourself Writing Detective-Compare/Contrast Essay Grammar Park Practice-Exploring the Pronoun Reef; On the Trail of Adjectives and Adverbs; Verb and Contraction Forest Go for Grammar Gold! More About Pronouns; Adjectives & Adverbs; More About Adjective & Adverbs; Main Verbs & Helping Verbs Homework Helper for Express Yourself
Hattie's Birthday Box Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Word Relationships Test Tutor-Word Relationships	William Shakespeare and the Globe Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Fact/Opinion Test Tutor-Fact/Opinion Classify/Categorize Proofreading Makes Perfect	The World of William Joyce scrapbook Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Word Relationships Test Tutor-Word Relationships Classify/catagorize
Satchmo's Blues Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Fact/Opinion Test Tutor-Fact/Opinion	Evelyn Cisneros: Prima ballerina Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Test Tutor-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Classify/Categorize Proofreading Makes Perfect
Theme 5 School Rules Writing Detective-Research Report Grammar Park Practice-Action Verb Tree House; Subject and Verb Mix-Up; Principal Parts Picnic; Batter Up with Verbs Go for Grammar Gold! Action Verbs & Linking Verbs; The Simple Tenses; More About Verb Tenses; Irregular Verbs; More About Punctuation Homework Helper for School Rules
Off and Running Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Test Tutor-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Characterization	Little by Little Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Author's Purpose & Perspective Test Tutor-Author's Purpose/Perspective Proofreading Makes Perfect	Dear Mr. Henshaw Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Test Tutor-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Characterization
Frindle Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Author's Purpose & Perspective Test Tutor-Author's Purpose/Perspective	The Fun They Had Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Draw Conclusions Proofreading Makes Perfect
Theme 6 American Adventure Writing Detective-Expressive Writing Grammar Park Practice-Perfect Verb Match; Puzzling Pathways; On the Trail of Adjectives and Adverbs; Canoe Comparison; Preposition State Fair Go for Grammar Gold! The Perfect Tenses; Main Verbs & Helping Verbs; Usage Problems; Adjectives & Adverbs; More About Adjectives & Adverbs; Prepositions Homework Helper for American Adventure
Across the Wide Dark Sea Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure:Connotation/Denotation Test Tutor-Connotation/Denotation Locate Information: Reference Sources	Name This American Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Cause/Effect Test Tutor-Text Structure: Cause/Effect Proofreading Makes Perfect	What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin Author's and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Connotation/Denotation Test Tutor-Connotation/Denotation
Lewis and Clark Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Cause/Effect Test Tutor-Cause/Effect Locate Information: Reference Sources	Black Frontiers Author's and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Summarize/Paraphrase Test Tutor-Summarize/Paraphrase Locate Information: Reference Sources Proofreading Makes Perfect