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4th Grade Resources

4th Grade Resources

Click the categories below to view the various online resources available. Please note: while we make every attempt to ensure that the links presented here are current and operational, we cannot guarantee the validity of these links/resources and the district is not responsible for any content presented outside of the district's website.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Academic Vocabulary - 4th Grade

Reading/Language Arts

MyOn Digital Library

Beaumont ISD is providing MyOn for FREE to all district students, ages K-12. MyOn provides thousands of engaging fiction and nonfiction books that also include audio support and tools for highlighting and making notes on the digital book.

Username/Password information -- Use your student ID number for both your username and password.

Storyline Online

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has a wonderful story read along website, Storyline Online. Well-known actors read popular children's picture books. The narration is accompanied by illustrations from the book. Each book has accompanying lesson plan ideas and activities.

Mysteries Online

Mysteries for Kids -- mysteries are a great way to invigorate young minds.

Spelling City

Online practice with Zaner-Bloser Spelling.

Username/Password information:

Username: txstudent
Password: zbspelling
School ID: txschool

Jeopardy Game Online

Students can practice reading skills as they relate to the 4th grade STAAR Reading assessment.

Free Rice

Free Rice is a vocabulary practice for all ages and levels.  For every correct answer, rice is donated to an impoverished country.  At the end of the month, the site owner calculates how much rice was donated and ships it to the selected country to provide food for others.

Articles Online

A free online newspaper for kids aged 8 - 15.  It is updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevance to this age range.

Poetry Online

Access many poems and activities related to poetry.

4th Grade Reading STAAR Vocabulary

Students can play games on Quizlet using the most common STAAR Reading terms.

4th Grade STAAR Terms (General)

Students can play games on Quizlet using the most common STAAR Reading terms.

Cloze Reading - Mr. Nussbaum

Cloze Reading is where students try to figure out what the missing key words are in a passage. This type of activity greatly helps students with comprehension skills, sequencing, and more.

Vocabulary Practice - Mr. Nussbaum

General vocabulary practice.

Reading Comprehension - Mr. Nussbaum

Select a grade level to access a variety of passages with comprehension questions.

Highlights Online

Highlights Online is the Highlights kids magazine in an online website form with stories, jokes, kids news, current events, and reading and language arts games. It is a great learning and family interactive website.

Accelerated Reader (AR)

AR Bookfinder

Check any book to see if it is on Accelerated Reader. Just type the title into the search bar to  find out if it has an AR quiz, how many points it is worth, what the reading level (BL - Book Level) is, and a brief summary of the book.

AR Tracker (For Parents)

Check on your child’s Accelerated Reader progress any time and receive text /email alerts when they take a quiz.

Username/Password information:

The user name is the child’s school ID number and the password is their birthday (two digit month, day, year) 

Example:  

Student ID:  123456

Password:  011509 if the birthdate is January 15, 2009

Writing Resources

4th Grade Grammar Flashcards

Practice your grammar terms here.

EduPlace

Can you identify correctly punctuated sentences?

Sentence Repair

Repair some messed up sentences here.

Combining Sentence Practice

Can you figure out how to combine sentences correctly?

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

How well do you know your homophones?  It is likely you will need to use at least some of these correctly on STAAR. Play a Millionaire game to check yourself.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Revision Practice

Editing and Revision practice with a Millionaire game!

Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Fragments and Runons

Play the Millionaire game to identify fragments and run-ons.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Double Negatives

Another Millionaire game that tests your ability to avoid double negatives.

Scholastic - Transition Words

Transition words practice.

ESL Games Plus

Practice subject/verb agreement.

You Get to be the Teacher - Mr. Nussbaum

You get to be the teacher!  Grade and correct another student's work at this site.

Time4Writing

Practice revision skills.

STAAR Practice - Extraneous Information in Paragraphs

Can you figure out what information does NOT need to be included in a paragraph? This is an important skill for STAAR Writing.

Portland Proofreading

Practice a variety of proofreading skills with these games.

Writing Practice - Mr. Nussbaum

Can you identify the errors in these sentences?  Give it a try! These activities are appropriate for elementary or middle school.

WritingEnglish.com

How well can you recognize errors in spelling or grammar?  Take some of these assessments and see your results.

Deluxe Paragraphs - Mr. Nussbaum

For ages 8-12... Targets-Parts of Speech (nouns, plural nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) Create a hilarious story using your knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, plural nouns, and adverbs. First, choose the shark story or the farm story.

Scholastic Story Starters

Story starters is a creative writing website sponsored by Scholastic. This site provides a variety of prompts to help build writing fluency and creativity.

Math Resources

Math Blaster

Fun way to learn math facts.

Game On - Increasing Learning Through Online Games

Games to help reinforce math skills at the upper elementary level.

Interactive Math Glossary

The Interactive Math Glossary is provided by the Texas Education Agency to help explore and understand mathematics vocabulary used in the grades K–8 TEKS. You can also download the Interactive Math Glossary app through the iTunes app store.

Think Central

Think Central provides the digital Student Edition eBook, Math iTools, Math Concept Readers, Math on the Spot Videos, and Mega Math games.

Username/password information:

Username – student Id# @bmtisd.com
Password – student id#

Study Jams

Study Jams offers step-by-step instruction on different math concepts.

Xtramath

Xtramath provides practice for fact fluency.

Contact your student's teacher for the username/password.

Prodigy Math

Prodigy has content from all major topics and will seamlessly cover Grades 1 - 8 to help ensure your students are ready for standardized testing. With a diagnostic test to place students in the correct grade, embedded assessments, and automatic differentiation, Prodigy ensures that each one of your students succeed at their own pace.

Contact your student's teacher to get the username/password.

Math Resources (For Parents)

Texas Assessment Management System for Families

Information on the STAAR test and how to help your child prepare.

Math4Texas

Math4Texas showcases the Math TEKS by grade level with tips, examples, digital tools, and videos to help parents understand the math concepts and skills that their children are learning.

Texas Education on iTunesU

Provides multimedia content to educators, students, and parents in Texas and around the world. 

Content collections

  • include 84 unique collections, featuring fully downloadable video, podcasts, and PDF files are available in the foundation curriculum (English language arts and reading, mathematics, science, social studies) and in some enrichment curriculum (career and technology education, fine arts, and technology applications)
  • are provided by Texas school teachers and public school districts; regional education service centers; institutions of higher education; Texas museums, non-profits, and professional organizations; and Texas state agencies, including the Texas Education Agency

Bilingual/Spanish Resources

Department of Education Math Activities

This website has English and Spanish math activities parents can do with their child.

Department of Education - Reading Activities

This website has English and Spanish reading activities that will assist parents in helping their child become a better reader.

ELL Texas

This website provides parents with information including the TEKS in English and Spanish.

Department of Education - General Resources

This website gives parents strategies on how to help their child be successful in school in English and Spanish.

IXL (Reading)

This website provides Spanish reading activities.

GetEpic (Reading)

Books in Spanish, bilingual Spanis/English, Read-to-Me, etc. Quizzes available.

PBS (Reading/Math/Science)

Parenting guidance to teach their students. It includes games, videos, etc.

Reading Con Migo (Reading)

Free books in Spanish.

RockaLingua (Reading/Math)

Reading, Grammar, Math, songs, & games.

The Learning Patio (Reading/Math/Science/Social Studies)

Reading, Grammar, Writing prompts, Math, Science, S. Studies. 

Mundo Primaria (Reading/Math/Science)

Reading (includes audio books), Math, & Science free activities and games.

Color In Colorado (Reading)

This is a Spanish Reading website with many reading resources.