Grade 4 Worksheets

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• Use context to decide which meaning of a word fits a sentence.
• Identify common prefixes and suffixes to infer word meaning.
• Explain how structural clues and context help maintain meaning across a text.

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• Identify how writers change details, tone, and vocabulary for different purposes and audiences
• Determine whether a text is mainly persuasive or informational based on its key features
• Use evidence from a passage to explain how audience needs affect word choice and organization

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• Explain how force, friction, gravity, electricity, and material properties affect a design’s performance.
• Match scientific ideas to real-world design examples.
• Use scientific vocabulary to complete sentences and questions about simple prototypes.+ Show more

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• Explain how claims should align with specific textual evidence from a passage
• Identify strong evidence by choosing quoted phrases, key sentences, or details that directly support an interpretation
• Use context around a quoted line to make sure the evidence truly matches the intended idea

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• Identify which details directly support the main idea of a prompt or passage.
• Revise a response by removing distracting information and adding more precise evidence.
• Explain how irrelevant details weaken clarity and reasoning.

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• Classify common rocks as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic by observing texture and composition.
• Distinguish grain size, crystal arrangement, and layering/foliation using visible features.
• Explain how texture can record a rock’s formation environment, such as cooling rate or sediment transport.

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• Identify common system components in a simple technological system, including a source, mechanism, and control or connector.
• Explain how energy moves through a system to produce an output from an input.
• Describe how material and component properties affect how well a system works.

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• Explain how sound reflection creates echoes in open and enclosed spaces
• Describe how distance to a reflecting surface affects the time between direct and reflected sound
• Compare how soft and hard surfaces influence sound absorption and reverberation+ Show more

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• Use linking phrases to show how ideas connect within sentences and between sentences.
• Identify whether a relationship is addition, contrast, cause-and-effect, or an example.
• Revise writing by adding transitions that clarify what each new point contributes to the main idea.

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• Describe how observations of a real situation lead to a design problem
• Explain how a design solution can change materials, shape, or structure
• Use evidence from a scenario to choose an effective design approach+ Show more

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• Identify a sentence’s subject and verb to ensure subject-verb agreement is correct.
• Choose the best verb form to maintain consistent tense across connected ideas.
• Revise sentences to improve clarity by correcting grammar mistakes that affect meaning.

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• Understand what weather describes and the factors that influence it.
• Identify patterns in weather over days and weeks.
• Learn how to record and compare weather data over time.+ Show more

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• Use commas to separate items in a list within a sentence.
• Identify when a sentence needs commas to avoid misreading list items as one idea.
• Apply comma rules to lists that include words, phrases, or short groups of terms.

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• Describe criteria that show how well a prototype works.
• Identify constraints that limit materials, size, or safety for a prototype.
• Compare prototype features to criteria while following constraints.+ Show more

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• Identify transitional words and phrases that show how ideas are connected in a text
• Choose the best transition to match time, sequence, comparison, contrast, or cause-and-effect
• Explain how transitions help readers follow ideas across sentences and paragraphs+ Show more

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• Identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in a sentence.
• Explain how prepositions and conjunctions help words connect in complete statements.
• Use correct parts of speech to write and revise short descriptions.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes of evaporation and condensation.
• Identify everyday examples of evaporation and condensation.
• Describe how temperature influences state changes between liquid and gas.+ Show more

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• Identify important details from a summer-memory story about fun, challenges, and growth.
• Use reflection vocabulary to describe feelings and lessons learned.
• Write a clear summary of a personal memory with a meaningful takeaway.

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• Choose details from a passage that directly support the central idea of a question.
• Distinguish relevant details from partially related or unrelated information.
• Use evidence from text to answer questions clearly and accurately.

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• Explain how modern technologies can solve real problems in Texas communities.
• Identify ways technology can improve quality of life in areas such as energy, environment, and medicine.
• Compare how today’s technologies are different from or similar to past innovations in Texas.+ Show more

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• Understand how light propagates as straight rays in the ray model.
• Identify how intersections and extensions of rays determine shadows and illuminated regions.
• Describe how angles of incidence and reflection relate for smooth surfaces.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation causes predictable day and night.
• Describe how the Sun appears to move across the sky due to Earth’s turning.
• Use observations (sunrise, sunset, time of daylight) to support the day/night cycle explanation.

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• Explain how predator-prey relationships can change population sizes over time
• Describe how competition for limited resources can affect growth rates and survival
• Identify mutual relationships and use population evidence to infer ecosystem connections

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• Explain how population size can increase or decrease over generations
• Identify traits and behaviors that can improve survival in a specific environment
• Match examples of limiting factors, predation, and disease to their effects on populations+ Show more

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• Infer a character’s trait using evidence from actions, dialogue, and responses to challenges.
• Explain how evidence across multiple moments supports (or weakens) an inference.
• Choose trait descriptions that match what the text shows, not what readers assume.

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• Describe how cultural heritage is preserved through language, celebrations, and crafts
• Identify examples of cultural traditions from different Texas populations
• Explain how cultural heritage can strengthen community belonging+ Show more

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• Restate information from a text in new wording while preserving the original meaning.
• Include key details from the text in a paraphrase without copying sentences word-for-word.
• Check that a paraphrase stays precise enough to match the source detail.

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• Draft a paragraph that includes a clear main point and relevant supporting details
• Arrange sentences in a logical sequence so ideas connect smoothly
• Use simple transitions to help readers move from one idea to the next+ Show more

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• Define bug, error, debug, and troubleshoot in the context of computer programs
• Identify whether an observed problem is caused by a logical error or a sequencing error
• Use a simple testing and observation process to debug a program+ Show more

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• Explain how wave frequency relates to pitch and how wave amplitude relates to loudness.
• Describe how changing tension, length, mass per unit length, and air-column conditions can change frequency.
• Identify factors that affect how loud a sound is, such as excitation force, surface area, and coupling.

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• Identify what a graph shows about quantities and categories
• Read bar graphs, line graphs, and pictographs to find patterns and trends
• Interpret information by describing what changes in a graph over time or between categories

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• Identify how Cinco de Mayo artwork (banners, decorations, and costumes) reflects cultural stories and community pride.
• Use respectful, accurate language when describing traditions and artistic symbols from Mexican celebrations.
• Create a simple art design inspired by Cinco de Mayo patterns using colors, shapes, and meaningful symbols.

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• Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in sentences
• Explain how each part of speech helps meaning in context
• Use parts of speech to improve sentence clarity and word choice

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• Explain how water changes form (liquid, vapor, and ice) and how that relates to clouds and precipitation.
• Describe how temperature affects how much water vapor air can hold and how weather changes season to season.
• Use evidence from a text to identify main ideas about moisture, cloud formation, and precipitation.

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• Identify information shown in charts, tables, and diagrams.
• Compare variables and describe patterns found in data displays.
• Explain how organizing observations helps reveal trends.

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• Identify observable traits that support why organisms are placed in specific groups.
• Explain how similarities and differences help justify a classification decision.
• Describe what to do with borderline cases by comparing the strongest separating traits.

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• Identify behaviors that support productive discussion, such as taking turns and staying on topic.
• Use sentence starters to build on others’ ideas (e.g., “Along with…” and “In addition…”).
• Demonstrate active listening by noticing emphasized points and responding with additions or brief summaries.+ Show more

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• Describe how straight-line light paths help explain why shadows form
• Predict how changing the position of an object changes the shadow’s location
• Explain how the size or closeness of an object affects shadow size+ Show more

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• Explain how energy moves through an ecosystem using producers and consumers in a food chain.
• Use arrows to describe feeding relationships in a food chain.
• Predict how changes in one organism population can affect other organisms connected by feeding relationships.

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• Define and use the words test, result, expected outcome, and evaluation in the context of program testing.
• Compare intended behavior and actual behavior to decide whether a program passes a test.
• Describe how observation during testing helps find strengths and areas for improvement.

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• Describe how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks connect through the rock cycle.
• Identify processes that change rock materials, including melting and cooling, weathering and erosion, transport, compaction and cementation, and heat and pressure.
• Explain that rock cycle changes repeat over geologic time and involve pathways that can loop.

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• Identify how a writing goal connects the topic to a reason for writing (inform, entertain, or persuade).
• Select the main idea and choose relevant details that match the goal.
• Order writing priorities so drafting stays focused and coherent.

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• Identify the central idea of a text by using key details and clues.
• Explain how repeated topics and relationships among sentences help reveal what a text mainly emphasizes.
• Write a one-sentence main idea statement that matches the evidence in both narrative and informational writing.

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• Identify what a savings account is and how it helps people save money.
• Explain the meaning of deposit, record, balance, and interest in simple terms.
• Select strategies for using deposits to track savings account growth.

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• Explain why welcoming new students helps a positive classroom environment
• Identify kind and inclusive ways people greet one another in a community
• Use classroom routines and shared goals to support teamwork

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• Define and use budget words such as balance, goal, priority, amount, and leftover
• Identify how to track spending to keep a budget balanced
• Choose the best action for a budget goal using needs, saving, and simple planning

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• Identify how visuals such as size, color, and placement guide an audience’s attention
• Explain how audio elements such as voice tone, sound effects, and music clarify or change a message
• Analyze how combining visual and audio choices affects what information is understood+ Show more

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• Explain how a push or pull can change an object’s speed and direction.
• Compare force strength and use it to predict changes in motion.
• Identify situations where a net force changes an object’s motion.