Take It to Your Seat Language Centers, Grade 4

Fourth-grade students will master standards-based language and vocabulary skills through engaging hands-on center activities. Each of the 11 centers focuses on one skill aligned in a format that is accessible and motivating for all types of learners. These portable language centers help teachers to: * support kinesthetic and visual learners * provide differentiated practice of language and vocabulary skills * offer a quality center activity * review or reinforce skills * informally assess a student’s understanding of concepts The 11 centers cover the following Conventions of Standard English and Vocabulary Acquisition and Use skills: * Using relative pronouns to form more-detailed sentences * Forming sentences in the progressive past, present, and future tenses * Choosing the correct preposition and prepositional phrase * Identifying complete sentences * Choosing the correct meaning of a homophone used in a sentence * Using correct capitalization in sentences * Forming compound sentences * Identifying word roots as the base of words * Identifying prefixes and suffixes as word parts * Identifying words with similar meanings * Identifying words with opposite meanings Each easy-to-assemble center provides a hands-on activity with a written practice activity, as well as: * correlations and targeted skills * full-color center mats and task cards * an overview with lesson objectives * a student direction page that explains the center activity * a center checklist to record each…