Online English Tutoring for 4th Grade

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Reading, writing, speaking and listening are the ways a child learns a language. Our expert, grade 4 English tutors build around the three essential interrelated strands of English Curriculum – Language, Literature and Literacy.
At eTutorWorld, customized tutoring sessions help your child systematically learn the language which is essential not only for everyday communication but also in learning other subjects.

Certified Online English Tutors for 4th Graders:

With our 4th grade English tutoring, your child will learn about:

Oral Language

Providing details and examples to enhance meaning
Summarizing and synthesizing
Comparing and analyzing ideas
Expressing ideas clearly and fluently

Reading and Viewing

Choosing texts and defending text choices
Making inferences and drawing conclusions during reading
Reading strategically, depending on purpose
Reading texts of different forms and genres

Writing and Representing

Writing in a variety of genres
Writing to express and extend thinking
Using criteria to revise and edit writing
Using conventional grammar, spelling and punctuation

Here’s a brief summary of fundamental concepts included in our 4th grade English tutoring program.

GRADE 4 – COMMON CORE SECTION	COMMON CORE CODE	COMMON CORE STANDARD (ANCHOR)
Conventions of Standard English:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.A-G CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1. B CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.C CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.A	– Reflexive pronouns – Progressive tenses – Modals – Order of Adjectives – Prepositional phrases – Complete sentences – Homophones
	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2.A – D	-Capitalization -Commas and quotations -Compound sentences -Spellings
Knowledge of Language:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3.A CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3.B CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3.C	-Usage of language -Usage of punctuation -Formal and Informal language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.A CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.B CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.C	-Context as clue -Greek and Latin affixes -Use of glossaries and dictionaries
	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.A – C CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.6	-Metaphors and Similes -Synonyms and Antonyms; Homographs -Idioms and Proverbs -Academic and domain specific words
Reading: Literature Key ideas and details	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3	– Predictions from a text – Theme and summary of a text – Characters and setting of a story
Craft and Structure:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6	– Words and meanings from a text – Difference between poem, drama and prose
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9	– Text with audio and visual aids – Compare and contrast similar themes
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9	– Read and comprehend different genres of literature
Reading: Informational Text Key ideas and details	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3	– Details and examples of a text – Summarize the text – Use of information in a text
Craft and Structure:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.6	-Context to clues -Structure of a text -Compare and contrast two views on the same topic
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.8 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.9	– Interpret information presented visually,orally or quantitatively – Reasons and evidence to support specific points – Integration of information from two texts on the same topic
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.10	Read and comprehend informational texts
Phonics and Word Recognition:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.3	Decoding New words
Fluency:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4 A – C	Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Writing:Text types and Purposes	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1 A – D	– Opinion writing – Writing informative texts – Writing narratives
Production and Distribution of Writing:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2 A – E	– Organized writing – Editing – Collaborative writing and keyboard skills
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3 A – E	Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies
Research to Build and Present Knowledge:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.5 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.6	– Research projects – Listing sources – Setting, events and characters of a story – Reasons and evidences
Range of Writing:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.8 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.9	Writing over long and short time frames
Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1 A-D CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.3	– Collaborative discussions – Rules and regulations – Asking questions, commenting and answering – Review the key ideas
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:	CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.5 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.6	– Report a text with facts – Adding recordings and visual displays – Formal and informal language.

4th Grade Recommended English Reading list

S. No.	Name of Book	Author
1	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis
2	The Black Stallion	Farley, Walter
3	The Secret Garden	Burnett, Frances Hodgson
4	The Little Prince	Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
5	Tuck Everlasting	Babbitt, Natalie
6	Zlateh the Goat	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
7	The Great	Hamilton, Virginia. M. C. Higgins
8	The Birchbark House	Erdrich, Louise
9	Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul
10	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon	Lin, Grace

S. No.	Name of Book	Author
1	The Echoing Green	Blake, William
2	The New Colossus	Lazarus, Emma
3	Casey at the Bat	Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
4	A Bird Came Down the Walk	Dickinson, Emily
5	Fog	Sandburg, Carl
6	Dust of Snow	Frost, Robert
7	Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf	Dahl, Roald
8	They Were My People	Nichols, Grace
9	Words Free As Confetti	Mora, Pat

S. No.	Name of Book	Author
1	The Amazing Story of the Red Planet	Berger, Melvin. Discovering Mars
2	Let’s Investigate Marvelously Meaningful Maps	Carlisle, Madelyn Wood
3	Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms	Lauber, Patricia
4	The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It	Otfinoski, Steve
5	Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions	Wulffson, Don
6	Good Pet, Bad Pet	Schleichert, Elizabeth
7	Ancient Mound Builders	Kavash, E. Barrie
8	About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks	Koscielniak, Bruce
9	England the Land	Banting, Erinn
10	England the Land	Banting, Erinn
11	A History of US	Hakim, Joy
12	My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World	Ruurs, Margriet
13	Horses	Simon, Seymour
14	Sy. Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea	Montgomery
15	Horses	Simon, Seymour
16	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball	Nelson, Kadir
17	Kenya’s Long Dry Season	Cutler, Nellie Gonzalez
18	Seeing Eye to Eye	Hall, Leslie
19	Telescopes	Ronan, Colin A
20	Underground Railroad	Buckmaster, Henrietta

Sample Performance Tasks for Stories and Poetry

Make connections between the visual presentation of John Tenniel’s illustrations in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the text of the story to identify how the pictures of Alice reflect specific descriptions of her in the text. [RL.4.7]

• Explain the selfish behavior by Mary and make inferences regarding the impact of the cholera outbreak in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden by explicitly referring to details and examples from the text. [RL.4.1]

• Describe how the narrator’s point of view in Walter Farley’s The Black Stallion influences how events are described and how the reader perceives the character of Alexander Ramsay, Jr. [RL.5.6]

• Summarize the plot of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and then reflect on the challenges facing the characters in the story while employing those and other details in the text to discuss the value of inquisitiveness and exploration as a theme of the story. [RL.5.2]

Read Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting and describe in-depth the idyllic setting of the story, drawing on specific details in the text, from the color of the sky to the sounds of the pond, to describe the scene. [RL.4.3]

• Compare and contrast coming-of-age stories by Christopher Paul Curtis (Bud, Not Buddy) and Louise Erdrich (The Birchbark House) by identifying similar themes and examining the stories’ approach to the topic of growing up. [RL.5.9]

• Refer to the structural elements (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” when analyzing the poem and contrasting the impact and differences of those elements to a prose summary of the poem. [RL.4.5]

• Determine the meaning of the metaphor of a cat in Carl Sandburg’s poem “Fog” and contrast that figurative language to the meaning of the simile in William Blake’s “The Echoing Green.” [RL.5.4]