Fourth Grade Spelling Words

(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 Personal Best Writing Detective-Expressive Writing Grammar Practice Part-The Sentence Park Game, Subject Storm, Predicate Races, Subject & Predicate Picnic, Sentence Horseshoes
The Best School Year Ever Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements	Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots	Knots in My Yo-Yo String Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Make Judgments
The Marble Champ Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements	Darnell Rock Reporting Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots
Theme 2 Friends to the Rescue Writing Detective-Expository Writing Grammar Practice Part-Complex Sentence Bandstand, Sentence Seal Pool, A Rain Forest of Nouns, Singular and Plural Noun Reef, Possessive Noun Ride
Number the Stars Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Narrative Elements Test Tutor-Narrative Elements	The Summer of the Swans Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Literary Elements Test Tutor-Literary Devices: Point of View	Old Yeller Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Summarize/Paraphrase Test Tutor-Summarize/Paraphrase
Trapped by the Ice Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Literary Devices: Figurative Language Test Tutor-Literary Devices: Figurative Language Sequential Structure	Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Summarize/Paraphrase Test Tutor-Summarize/Paraphrase Sequential Structure
Theme 3 - Unlocking the Past Writing Detective-Research Report Grammar Practice Part-Pronoun Exploration, Possessive Pronoun Safari, Play Ball with Pronouns, Adjective Balloon Ride, Adjective Express
The Stone Age News Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Test Tutor-Text Structure: Main Ideas/Details	Ancient China Authors and Illustrators Building Background	Pyramids
Look into the Past: The Greeks and The Romans Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details Test Tutor-Text Structure: Main Idea/Details	The Skill of Pericles Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots Test Tutor-Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots
Theme 4 - Creative Solutions Writing Detective-More Expository Writing Grammar Practice Part-Fishing for Comparisons, On the Trail with Verbs, Action Verb Remote Control, Linking Verb Search, Underwater in the Present Tense
My Side of the Mountain Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Literary Devices Test Tutor-Literary Devices: Point of View Figurative Language	Fall Secrets Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Word Relationships Test Tutor-Word Relationships	Girls Think of Everything Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Test Tutor-Compare/Contrast
A Do-It-Yourself Project Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Compare/Contrast Test Tutor-Compare/Contrast	Catching the Fire: Philip Simmons, Blacksmith Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Word Relationships Test Tutor-Word Relationships
Theme 5 - Making a Difference Writing Detective-Persuasive Writing Grammar Practice Part-A Carousel of Tenses, Basket of Principal Parts, Name That Verb, Perfect Tense Matching, Progressive Verb Forest
Seventh Grade Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Draw Conclusions	My Name is San Ho Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Author's Purpose/Perspective Test Tutor-Author's Purpose/Perspective	Out of the Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Draw Conclusions
Ann of Green Gables Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Word Relationships Test Tutor-Word Relationships	Cowboys: Roundup on an American Ranch Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Author's Purpose/Perspective Test Tutor-Author's Purpose/Perspective
Theme 6 - Expanding Worlds Writing Detective-Other Writing Forms Grammar Practice Part-Contractions and Negatives in Space, The Adverb Tree House, Comparison Slide, Preposition Barnyard, The Adjective and Adverb Desert
Atlas in the Round Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Cause/Effect Test Tutor-Text Structure: Cause/Effect	Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Fact/Opinion Test Tutor-Fact/Opinion Denotation/Connotation	I Want to be an Astronaut Authors and Illustrators Reading Skills Rocket-Text Structure: Cause/Effect Test Tutor-Text Structure: Cause/Effect (This one does not seem to be working.)
CyberSurfer Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Fact/Opinion Test Tutor-Fact/Opinion Denotation/Connotation	The Case of the Shining Blue Planet Authors and Illustrators Building Background Reading Skills Rocket-Draw Conclusions Test Tutor-Denotation/Connotation Draw Conclusions