English Language Conventions

pensThese skills, based on educational standards, outline state requirements for your child’s learning program and what Fourth Grade students across the state should be able to do in this subject.

For each English Language Convention skill, we have listed several online activities that your child can explore themselves or that you and your child can do together.

Skill:

Use the correct verb with the subject of the sentence

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Use past, present, and future verb tenses correctly

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Use conjunctions (including, although, while, neither, and nor) correctly

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Use adverbs (including, slow, slowly and slowest) correctly

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Use the correct pronoun to replace a noun

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Capitalize titles, brand names, proper adjectives, and names of organizations

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Use quotation marks with dialogue and titles of texts published within larger texts (e.g. the title of a song on a CD)

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Combine two sentences by using a comma and a conjunction or a semi-colon

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