Author: Sylvan Learning

Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0375430032

Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 4th grade reading success! Good reading skills are essential not only for fourth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside are: READ BETWEEN THE LINES Do-it-yourself essays on games, camping trips, and more teach kids how to grasp inferences within a story. COMPARE & CONTRAST Diagrams show how to figure out what similar subjects such as "comets or asteroids?" have in common and how to tell them apart. FACT & OPINION Interesting articles help kids back up opinions with facts from the text on topics such as "Should kids have cell phones?" QUESTION BUSTERS Right There and Think-and-Search questions explain how to find the answers to straightforward and not-so-straightforward questions about a story. STORY PLAN Fill-in-the-blank sections aid in building story structure, including setting, main characters, problems, and solutions. Plus! CHECK IT! STRIPS Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work. Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success. Why Sylvan Learning Products Work Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a Honors Award from the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. The NAPPA is the nation’ s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources, and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.