Grade 4 Language Arts — Complete Year

Open the binder. Teach the day. A full year of Grade 4 Language Arts — readings, comprehension, model writing, word study, every parent guide.

Designed for the homeschooling parent who wants a single binder that says "do this today" — secular, print-and-teach, no per-week prep, no buying ten more books. Plain-language goals, not standards-speak, on every page a child sees; the formal CCSS reference lives quietly in the back-matter crosswalk.

What's Included

- **36 public-domain reading passages**, full text on the page — Greek myths (Pandora, Daedalus and Icarus, Persephone, Echo and Narcissus, Arachne, Theseus and the Minotaur, Orpheus, Phaethon) plus Brothers Grimm tales, Hans Christian Andersen, and obscure Aesop fables for more challenging language. - **4-6 text-dependent comprehension questions per reading**, mixing retrieval, inference, vocabulary, main-idea, and text-evidence — every question authored against THIS reading, never generic. - **36 WAGOLL model texts** (What A Good One Looks Like) aligned to grade-4 CCSS writing outcomes — opinion, informative, and narrative voices. - **36 weekly skills pages** with grammar, sentence-level practice, and a "Try it" prompt tied to each week's reading. - **36 weekly word-study pages** — 12 spelling words derived per week from the curriculum, four rotating Mon-Thu activities, and a Friday check. - **7 illustrated reading pages** — public-domain plates from Helen Stratton's illustrations for Jean Lang's *A Book of Myths* (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1915) for the Greek myths, plus Walter Crane and Milo Winter Aesop plates. Every image's provenance is documented in the build manifest. - **Placement check** + **three term-end assessments** (after weeks 12, 24, 36) + **end-of-year cumulative review** — every item answer-keyed. - **Hands-on family projects + paired living-books reading lists** — one of each per major theme. Every book is a verified real title (cross-checked against Open Library); fabricated ISBNs are never on the list. - **Weekly parent guide** — plain-language goals, how-to-teach, "if stuck / if ready for more." - **Year-at-a-glance scope & sequence**, **36-week pacing calendar**, **standards crosswalk**, **parent FAQ**, **progress tracker**, **portfolio prompts**, **record keeping**. - **Consolidated answer keys** for all comprehension questions and all assessment items — at the back of the book, never on the child page. - **Color + blackline (inksaver) DOCX variants** shipped together so you can print whichever suits the day. - **TPT bundle of the 3 Term bundles** (weeks 1-12, 13-24, 25-36) — buy the year, get a discount versus buying terms individually.

Grade & Ages

- **Grade Level:** 4 (ages ~9-10) - **Length:** 36 weeks (4 short sittings per week + a flex day) - **Time per day:** 60-90 minutes

Standards Alignment

Aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) at Grade 4. The standards crosswalk page maps each strand to the relevant CCSS code; the per-week pages use plain English so a parent doesn't need standards literacy to teach.

Secular Promise

**Secular curriculum.** No religious content in the readings, the writing prompts, or the project / booklist material.

The fable and myth readings are presented as **world-culture literature** — stories that human cultures have told for centuries to explain values, origins, and how to live — not as religious instruction.

Plain secular language throughout: when a story features gods, they're taught the way they're taught in a comparative-literature class, not the way they're taught in a Sunday school.

Format

Single editable / printable DOCX (color) plus a matching blackline (inksaver) version, both in the same download. Answer keys are bound at the back so a child working through the book never sees them; a parent flips to the back to mark.

Pair with

Grade 4 Math Complete Year (sold separately) — or the Grade 4 Complete Core Bundle to get both subjects on one integrated calendar at a discount.