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The 4th grade English student:

• Continues cursive writing.
• Practices alphabetizing and increases his comprehension of vowels and consonants.
• Reviews and expands knowledge of the parts of speech—nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, and subject nouns), verbs (action, state-of-being, and helping), pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
• Develops paragraph writing skills and reviews the types of sentences—declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.
• Identifies and practices using ending punctuation.
• Learns the use of a colon and an apostrophe in contractions and possessives.
• Begins to use the dictionary.
• Learns proper letter writing form .
• Reviews and expands word concepts (antonyms, synonyms, homonyms), confusing words, word pairs, and contractions.