Fourth Grade Supply List 2025-2026

Fourth Grade TWDL Supply List 2025-2026

• Using and applying knowledge of grade-level phonics and  word-analysis skills to read and write single-syllable an  multisyllabic words.
   
• Fluently read grade-level texts.
   
• Demonstrating legible cursive writing skills.
   
• Writing a personal or fictional narrative, write to make a claim and write expository texts that follow rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling.
   
• Improving writing by planning, revising and editing, with guidance and support from adults. 

• Read a Variety of Texts: Build an at-home library of children’s stories, non-fiction texts, magazines, recipes, comics, etc.
   
• Choose Appropriate Books: Help your child pick books that are not too hard but not too easy.
   
• Read to Your Child Every Day: Model good reading strategies to your child by reading a few minutes each day.
   
• Have Your Child Read to You Every Day: Spend 15-20 minutes listening to your child read to you before they are tired.
   
• Talk About It: Ask your child questions about what they read.
   
• Have them retell the story in their own words including a description of the characters and setting and what happens in the book (beginning, middle, end, problem, solution).
   
• Practice Text Tracking: If your child is an early reader, encourage them to point to each word.
   
• Reread Favorite Books: Repeat favorite books over and over to build reading fluency.
   
• Reading Apps: Download reading apps for your device.

In grade 4, instructional time will emphasize four areas: (1) extending understanding of multi-digit multiplication and division; (2) developing the relationship between fractions and decimals and beginning operations with both; (3) classifying and measuring angles and (4) developing an understanding for interpreting data to include mode, median and range.

Florida B.E.S.T. Math Standards

Instructional Practices 
Teaching from a range of complex text is optimized when teachers in all subject areas implement the following strategies on a routine basis:

1. Ensuring wide reading from complex text that varies in length.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Emphasizing text-specific complex questions, and cognitively complex tasks, reinforce focus on the text and cultivate independence.
4. Emphasizing students supporting answers based upon evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).

Science and Engineering Practices (NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2010)

• Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering).
• Developing and using models.
• Planning and carrying out investigations.
• Analyzing and interpreting data.
• Using mathematics, information and computer technology, and computational thinking.
• Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).
• Engaging in argument from evidence.
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

Additional content addressed on the Grade 4 NAEP Science assessment includes:

• Earth materials have properties that make them useful in solving human problems and enhancing the quality of life. (SC.6.E.6.2)
• The Sun warms the land, air, and water and helps plants grow. (SC.3.E.6.1;SC.3.L.17.2)
• Weather changes from day to day and during the seasons. (SC.2.E.7.1)
• Scientists use tools for observing, recording, and predicting weather changes. (SC.5.E.7.3; SC.5.E.7.4)
• Plants and animals have life cycles. (SC.2.L.16.1)
• Environment changes impact organism survival and reproduction. (SC.5.L.15.1)
• Organisms need food, water, air, and shelter. (SC.1.L.17.1)
• Some objects are composed of a single substance; others are composed of more than one substance. (SC.5.P.8.3)
• Heat (thermal energy) results when substances burn, materials rub against each other, and electricity flows though wires. (SC.3.P.11.2)
• Metals are conductors of heat and electricity. (SC.3.P.11.2)
• Increasing the temperature of any substance requires the addition of energy.
• Electricity flowing through an electrical circuit produces magnetic effects in the wires. Energy is transferred to the surroundings as light, sound, and heat (thermal energy). (SC.5.P.11.1; SC.5.P.11.2)

Florida Science Standards

The fourth grade Social Studies curriculum consists of the following content area strands: American History, Geography, Economics, and Civics. Fourth grade students will learn about Florida history focusing on exploration and colonization, growth, and the 20th Century and beyond. Students will study the important people, places, and events that helped shape Florida history.
 

Florida Social Studies Standards

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy choices, maintain and improve quality of life, promote personal health and prevent injuries. This course also includes content related to resiliency education: civic and character education and life skills education.  

The content should include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Injury Prevention and Safety
• Internet Safety
• Nutrition
• Personal Health
• Prevention and Control of Disease
• Substance Use and Abuse Prevention
• Resiliency Education

Florida Health Standards