Journeys Reader's Notebook Grade 4

Providing grade level reading and English practice can be as easy as adding a workbook. The student workbook from the HMH Journeys Reading program adds a supplemental component to any standard Fourth Grade ELA studies. Students will work on parts of speech, inflection, spelling words, writing skills, and the focus shifts from phonics review to grammar and spelling. Each page in the lower left-hand corner will indicate the skill being covered (Vocabulary Strategies, Spelling, Grammar, Writing, Independent Reading). These Independent Reading worksheets, about two for each lesson and the larger Unit Review Reader’s Guide section, are activities taken from the Big Book reader (which is no longer available). Many of these activities can be adjusted to reflect what the students may already be reading on their own and make a lovely research skills opportunity. For example, Unit 2 Reader’s Guide is about Discovering Mars. Students can take this time to do independent or guided research about the planet Mars, astronauts, the Solar System, missions to Mars, etc. With this information, students can work on these Independent Reading worksheets.   There is a lovely Reading and Writing Glossary in the back of the workbook. Grammar is the heavy focus in this level pointing towards the mechanics of grammar within writing samples. The Teacher Edition contains all the answers for this workbook. This is a consumable workbook that is not reproducible with perforated pages for easy removal. There is no difference between the Common Core and the standard workbook. 391 pgs, pb.  ~Rebecca