Grade 4 · English · Semester 1 · 2026–2027

Your Grade 4 English journey, week by week.

Follow the semester from reading and vocabulary through grammar, spelling, and writing. Open any week to see the exact texts, skills, classwork, homework, and page references.

Tap any point on the journey — or any week below — to open the details.

The semester journey — click a point to jump to that week.

What students will work on

Grade 4 English develops four connected strands throughout the semester.

Core Strand

Reading & Comprehension

Literary and informational texts, genre, text features, plot, theme, point of view, and central idea.

Core Strand

Vocabulary & Spelling

Content words, homographs, idioms, roots, affixes, vowel patterns, digraphs, and compound words.

Core Strand

Grammar

Sentences, subjects and predicates, clauses, nouns, verbs, verb tenses, and sentence combining.

Core Strand

Writing

Introduction to writing, argumentative writing, free journal writing, feedback, and expository cause-and-effect writing.