As members of the “upper” grades of elementary school, 4th graders deepen their learning of skills through novel studies, preparing them for middle school. Much of a 4th grade reading curriculum teaches students how to analyze books they read. Rather than just understand the plot and information given in a text, students are encouraged to think about the messages in a text, how it relates to their own lives, and comparing texts to each other.
*Some of the possible novels are below.*
*Some of the possible novels are below.*
"The Twits"
By: Roald Dahl
By: Roald Dahl
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two useless, smelly and unfriendly people, who have nothing better to do than play practical jokes and pranks on each other, have their monkeys stand upside down all the time, and make bird pie with the birds that they catch using their glue on the tree. But what happens when the monkeys and birds get revenge? Their world gets turned upside-down!
"James and the Giant Peach"
By: Roald Dahl
An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.
"BFG"
By Roald Dahl
By Roald Dahl
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any other giant, she would have soon become breakfast. Now, Sophie hears that the giants are off to England to eat some children, and decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
"Shiloh"
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh. When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who doesn't treat the dog right. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family to Judd's anger. How far will Marty have to go to make Shiloh his?
"The Chocolate Touch"
By Patrick Skene Catling
By Patrick Skene Catling
In a laugh-out-loud hilarious twist on the legend of King Midas, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate. Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? Well, John Midas is about to find out!
"Sideways Stories from Wayside School"
By Louis Sachar
By Louis Sachar
There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirtieth floor. That's the way things happen at Wayside School. There are 29 kids in Mrs. Jewls's class and this book is about all of them.