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4th Grade Language Arts
English IV reviews noun forms, possessive nouns and pronouns, present, past, and past participle verbs, predicate adjectives, demonstrative adjectives,prepositional phrases, introduction to sentence diagramming, parts of speech review, using direct quotations, importance of parallelism, and correct placement of modifiers.
The course also focuses on consonants, vowels, verbs, plurals, pronunciation, syllables,root words, prefixes and suffixes, homonyms, words with multiple meanings,recognizing main ideas, cause and effect, characterization and other storyelements, summarizing and paraphrasing, point of view, purpose in writing,common expressions, fiction and nonfiction, tall tales, folktales, fantasy,literary forms, and figurative language. Selected authors include White, Henry,Irving, and Emerson.
This course offers dictionary and thesaurus skills and usage, review of sightwords, parts of speech, words in context, analogies, Latin and Greek roots,word recognition, words borrowed from names and places, core word vocabulary,words used in testing, grade-level review of long and short vowels, silentconsonants, sounds, and combinations.