4th Grade TCAP Practice



4th Grade

Parent Resources

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Reading/Language Arts

1. Read with your child every night.

a. Make sure your child can read the words and comprehend the story.

b. Make a list of words your child misses and review them and their meaning.

c. During the story, ask your child what is happening, why a character did something, to predict what they think will happen next, what the main idea of the story is, who the characters are, what the setting is…

2. Review the weekly spelling and vocabulary words.

a. Use the words often around your child.

b. Play scrabble or boggle with your child.

3. Have your child write at home.

a. Allow them to write in a journal at home about their day.

Math

1. Purchase or create multiplication and division cards. Go over them every night!

2. Talk to your child daily about what they are learning in school.

3. Allow your child to help you bake dinner. Keep track of ingredients and the timer.

4. Allow your child to buy something and make change.

5. Make your child solve everyday word problems: I need 12 apples to make a pie. I only have 3. How many more do I need?

ON THE NEXT FEW PAGES YOU WILL FIND WEBPAGES TO GO WITH THE SKILLS FOR TCAP PRACTICE.

Reading/Language Arts

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Main Idea Practice #1

Main Idea Practice #2

Main Idea Tutorial



Main Idea Graphic Organizer



What’s The Big Idea



Understanding and Supporting Details



Organization and Sequence

Sequencing Quiz



Make a Gran’s Cup of Tea Sequencing Activity



Interactive Timeline Creator (Story Events)



Sentence Analysis

Sentence Surgeons



Penguins on Ice



What is a Sentence?



ToBee or NottoBe (subject-verb agreement)



Literary Analysis, Judging Reliability and Appropriateness

Seaside Postcard (character)



Street Scene Labels (setting)



Literary Analysis, Judging Reliability and Appropriateness (continued)

Jack and Jill Plot Map Movie (story elements)



Hints About Print (selecting sources)



Quality Information Checklist



Inferential Reading

How Do You Know?



Inferences Based on Characters



Drawing Conclusions



Determining Purpose and Function

Author’s Purpose



Author’s Purpose Practice



Reading Rocket Author’s Purpose



Vocabulary in Context

Word Meaning Image Clues



Flip a Chip



Cloze Reading Passages



Video: Storylords – Inferring Word Meaning in Context



Math

Compare Using Decimal Representations

Fraction Models



Railroad Repair



Ordering Decimals



Use Symbols to Compare Fractions

Ordering Fractions: Drag and Drop



Interactive Fraction Modeler



Equivalent Fractions Matching Game



Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Adding Fractions



EZ fractions addition tool



Contextual Problems with Whole Numbers, Fractions, and Decimals

Railroad Repair



Make a Match



Math Continued

Mission Magnetite



Calculation Nation



Math Playground: Word Problems



Use Letters and Symbols to Write Expressions

Pan Balance Expressions



Poodle Weigh-In



Describe Data Using Mean, Median, Range, and Mode

Send in the Trolls



Mode, Median, and Mean



Generate and Compare Equivalent Forms of Fractions

Equivalent Fractions Matching Game



Reducing Fractions to the Lowest Terms



Tony’s Fractions Pizza Shop



Equivalent Fractions Interactive Practice



Verify Conclusions using Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties

Interactive Multiplication Properties Lesson



Interactive Addition Properties Lesson



Math is Fun: Guide to Properties



Science

Investigating a Question

Virtual Investigation: Fingerprint Activity



Insect Investigation: Using Questions as Keys



Variation in Living Things Investigation



Solving a Human Problem

Check My Plate: Making Healthy Eating Choices



Slush Rush



Technology Development

Science and Technology: Jobs and Inventions Videos



Fantastic Contraption



DesignIt.BuildIt.Fidgit



PowerPlay



Physical Changes in Matter

Sorting and Using Materials



Changing State



Solids and Liquids



On Fire



Strange Matter



How Materials Effect Light

Light and Shadows



Geometric Optics



Reflection and Refraction



Phases of the Moon

Go to the Head of the Solar System



Planets Interactive



Sun, Moon, and Stars Module



Water Cycle

Interactive Water Cycle



How Much Do You Know About Water



Water Evaporation



Cells

Interactive Cell Models



Animal Cell Mitosis



The Incredible Megacell



Social Studies

Governance and Civics

Your Neighborhood and Beyond



Branches of Government



How Laws are Made



Ben’s Guide to Citizenship



Economics

Mad Money



Producer/ Consumer



Cropscape: Interactive Map



World Energy and Minerals Map



Geography and Maps

Continent Matching



Image Ace



Interactive World Landforms



World Biomes



Adventure Island (using a map key)



Explore Mars (using a map grid)



Cybersquad: Virus Hunt (map navigation)



History

Arctic Artifacts



Name the Founding Father



Stories from the Past



Native Americans Activities



U. S. History Timeline



U. S. Historical Documents



History/Geography

Explore A Pyramid



Find Your Longitude



News City Pizza



Grid References



Scale



Family Adventure



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