Back to School ELA Review for 4th Grade | 20 Daily Lessons

Start the year with a focused 4th Grade Back to School ELA Review! Designed to revisit essential Grade 3 reading, grammar, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills, this resource gives students 20 structured daily lessons plus 16 print-and-play literacy games. The predictable routine helps fourth graders rebuild confidence, establish strong classroom routines, and prepare for Grade 4 learning.

Each daily lesson follows the same student-friendly structure: Read & Think, Language & Grammar, Word Work, and Write About It. Students read short fiction, nonfiction, and persuasive passages, answer comprehension questions, review essential language skills, strengthen vocabulary and word knowledge, and complete a connected writing task. Skills gradually spiral from focused review into more complex reading, grammar, editing, and reflection.

The resource includes 20 daily ELA review lessons, a 68-page Student Workbook, reading comprehension questions, inference and text evidence practice, grammar and language review, vocabulary and word study, Greek and Latin roots practice, daily writing prompts, 16 print-and-play literacy games, a complete answer key, Teacher Guide, 20-day pacing overview, four-week planning guide, differentiation suggestions, progress-monitoring tools, family letter, student reflection, and Reading Star Award.

Students revisit essential Grade 3 comprehension skills including main idea and details, theme, character traits and motivation, setting and mood, plot and conflict, inference, cause and effect, compare and contrast, author’s purpose, point of view, text structure, fact and opinion, text features, summarizing, text evidence, drawing conclusions, and making connections.

Grammar and language practice includes fragments and run-ons, subjects and predicates, verb tenses, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, compound and complex sentences, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, prepositions, capitalization, sentence combining, editing, and commonly confused words. Vocabulary and word study strengthen prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, context clues, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs, figurative language, analogies, and academic vocabulary.

The 16 included literacy games add engaging partner, small-group, and center practice. Activities include Parts of Speech Sort, Root Word Match, Synonym Match, Roll-a-Root Word, Academic Vocabulary BINGO, Multisyllable Roll & Read, Prefix Sort, Antonym Match, Reading Road Race, Main Idea Baskets, Fact or Opinion Sort, Sentence Building Tiles, Fix-It Cards, Sequence Cards, Homophone Match, and Syllable Sort.

Perfect for fourth grade morning work, back-to-school ELA review, third grade skills review, literacy centers, reading comprehension practice, grammar review, vocabulary development, intervention, homework, formative assessment, or first-month-of-school routines. Each lesson takes approximately 15–25 minutes, making it easy to fit into a busy classroom schedule.

Give students a confident, structured start to fourth grade with 20 days of meaningful ELA review plus 16 engaging literacy games!