Printables
26 sheets to print, grouped by learning area. Grade 4 sheets ask a child to check their own work — estimate first, test the prediction, say where a fact came from — because that is most of what this year adds. The instruction line at the top is addressed to you.
Reading and writing
English language arts and literature
Emphasis, pauses and phrasing
Read it like you mean it
Before reading each line aloud, mark it: a slash / where the voice pauses, and underline the one word to lean on. Then read it three times, and a fourth time for somebody else.
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Strategies for a harder text
Stop and think
Do the Before question first, then read the passage, stopping at each mark. The strategies are what a good reader does anyway; writing them down once makes them visible.
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Plan a short report
Write to inform
Pick a topic they know something about — an animal, a sport, a place. Plan it here before writing: headings first, facts under each, and a note of where each fact came from.
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Using information honestly
Where did it come from?
Read the fact card, then do the three jobs. Grade 4 is often the first report written from books and websites, and this is the habit that keeps it honest.
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Concise writing
Say it shorter
Each sentence says something simple in too many words. Rewrite it shorter without losing the meaning. Read both versions out loud — the shorter one usually sounds more sure of itself.
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Numbers to 10 000
Mathematics
Adding and subtracting
Columns to 10 000
The same method as Grade 3, one column wider. Line up ones under ones and carry or trade across. The second subtraction has zeros in the middle, which is the hard one.
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Line up the points
Decimals in columns
Money is the easiest way in: dollars and cents are decimals already. Every number is written with two places after the point — 4.6 is written 4.60 — so the points line up and each column means one thing.
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The written method
Multiplying by one digit
Multiply the ones first, then the tens, then the hundreds, carrying as you go. Estimate first — 234 × 3 is about 200 × 3 = 600 — so an answer of 70 or 7000 can be caught at once.
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The written method, and remainders
Dividing by one digit
Work from the left: how many 4s in 15? Write it on top, multiply, subtract, bring the next digit down. The last one does not come out even — the leftover is the remainder.
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By its sides and angles
Name that shape
Use the measurements written on each shape — equal side lengths, right-angle squares and angle sizes — to write the most exact name. Four sides first, then triangles.
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Count, then multiply
Area of rectangles
Count the squares in the first two and check by multiplying the sides. Then use only the measurements for the rest. Area is always in square units.
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How our class gets to school
Read the graph
Read the graph, then answer. Every answer should come from the graph — say which bar you used.
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Looking closely
Science
A magnet test
Will it stick?
Predict first, then test with a fridge magnet. Most metals do not stick, which surprises almost everyone, and the coins are the interesting ones.
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Sorting waste
Where does it go?
Tick where each thing should go in your town — the rules differ between places, so checking your town's website is part of the job. Then answer the question underneath.
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Land, water, air, living things
Four systems, always connected
For each event, tick every system it involves, then say how one of them affects another. There is always more than one — Alberta's outcome is the connections.
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Structure and function
Built for the job
Draw a line from each body part to what it is for. Then pick an animal from home or the park and do one of your own.
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Space in daily life
Moon journal
Each clear evening for two weeks, draw the Moon's shape in a box and write the date. The pattern that appears is one of the oldest calendars people have.
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Colonial Canada
Social studies
Colonial Canada, 1534 to 1867
Put it in order
The events are jumbled. Number them from 1 (earliest) to 8 (latest) in the boxes, using the dates as a check. Then answer the question at the bottom.
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Who brought what
The fur trade
Fill in both columns, then answer the questions. The fur trade was a partnership before it was anything else — Europeans could not have done it without First Nations trappers, guides and food.
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Who's who
New France
Draw a line from each name to what they are known for. Then answer the question about the word Canada.
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From four provinces to ten
Who joined when
Confederation in 1867 made a country of four provinces. Use the years in the box to fill in when each province joined, then answer the questions.
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What citizens are owed, and owe
Rights and responsibilities
Tick whether each is mainly a right (something the country protects for you) or a responsibility (something you owe). One of them is both — find it.
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Moving and feeling good
Physical education and wellness
Every part, not just one
A week of fitness
Plan something for each part of fitness this week, then tick it off. A child who only ever runs is training one part, and the outcome asks for a variety.
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Checking food information
Is it credible?
For each source, ask two questions: who made it, and are they selling something? Then tick how much to trust it about food.
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Price is only one factor
Which one would you buy?
Two soccer balls. Fill in the table, work out the cost per game, then decide — and say why. There is no single right answer, but there should be a reason.
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Having a plan before it happens
Be an upstander
For each situation, write one thing an upstander could do. Telling an adult always counts. Having a plan ready is what makes it possible to act at the time.
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Before you print
- Everything is drawn as outlines, so a sheet costs almost no ink and can be coloured in afterwards.
- Each sheet is one page. Use your browser's print button, or the one at the top of the sheet.
- Most sheets have a short for the grown-up note underneath with the answers and what to watch for. It does not print with the sheet.
- Several sheets have no single right answer on purpose. Those are the ones worth talking through rather than marking.