4th Grade Grammar Curriculum | Fourth Grade Year-Long Grammar by Teach Simple

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What's inside this resource

Thirty weekly grammar units for fourth grade take students from sentences and fragments through parts of speech, verb tenses, punctuation, and word relationships, with every fifth week set aside as a cumulative review and a final week built around a year-end exam. Each week's packet pairs a teacher's page explaining the concept with worked examples, a color-coded teacher-only page for extra call-out practice, and student worksheets that include cut-and-paste sorting, color-coding, and matching activities, closed out by an answer key. A companion week-by-week concept plan at the front lets a teacher print only the units needed for a given week or work through the full year in sequence.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Student can distinguish complete sentences from sentence fragments.
Student can identify and correctly use core parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions).
Student can apply subject-verb agreement and correct verb tense in writing.
Student can apply correct punctuation and capitalization conventions (quotation marks, apostrophes, commas, capitalization).

Teaching tips

Use the review weeks (every fifth week) as a built-in checkpoint before moving to new material, since they cycle back over the previous four weeks' concepts.
Separate teacher pages from student pages before copying — teacher pages print with a blue border and in color specifically so they're easy to identify.
Staple, hole-punch, or hand out each week's packet individually depending on how the class is organized, since the resource is designed to be flexible for prep.

Skills covered

Sentence and fragment identification — students cut, sort, and glue sentence versus fragment strips into the correct column.
Sentence classification by type — students color-code items as complete sentences or fragments based on given criteria.
Fragment-to-sentence matching — students pair sentence fragments with the missing clause needed to complete them.
Grammar concept application across 30 weekly units — students practice nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives/adverbs, prepositions, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, and punctuation, one concept per week.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

How are the review weeks (every fifth week) meant to be used?

Each review week (Weeks 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30) cycles back over the four grammar concepts taught in the preceding weeks, giving the teacher a built-in checkpoint before moving on to new material.

How can a teacher tell which pages are meant for the teacher versus the student when printing the packet?

Teacher pages print with a blue border and in color, while student pages are plain, so a teacher can sort the printed stack into teacher and student sets after printing.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.L.4.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why). b. Form and use the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses. c. Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions. d. Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag). e. Form and use prepositional phrases. f. Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.* g. Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their).*

Core concepts

sentence structure
parts of speech
verb tense
punctuation
grammar review

Topics

fourth grade grammar fourth grade grammar activities

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