IXL Winter Adventures skill plan - Language arts 4th grade

Keep students learning with IXL's week-by-week skill plan! Find essential IXL skills for solidifying understanding below.

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Days
Day 1: Around the world		1. Read about famous places 2. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features
Day 1: Around the world
1. Read about famous places 2. Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features

Day 2: Writer's workshop		1. Add imagery to stories Activity: Look at a scene in a book and write down all the times the author describes things with sensory details, uses strong verbs, or shows instead of tells. If you can't find many examples, try rewriting a sentence by adding in your own imagery.
Day 2: Writer's workshop
1. Add imagery to stories Activity: Look at a scene in a book and write down all the times the author describes things with sensory details, uses strong verbs, or shows instead of tells. If you can't find many examples, try rewriting a sentence by adding in your own imagery.

Day 3: Into the myths		1. Compare mythological illustrations 2. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
Day 3: Into the myths
1. Compare mythological illustrations 2. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales

Day 4: Badge of honor		Pick a challenge from your awards page and try to earn it!
Day 4: Badge of honor
Pick a challenge from your awards page and try to earn it!

Day 5: Brave the elements		1. Identify story elements 2. Identify elements of poetry
Day 5: Brave the elements
1. Identify story elements 2. Identify elements of poetry

Day 6: The show must go on		1. Read drama 2. Show character emotions and traits
Day 6: The show must go on
1. Read drama 2. Show character emotions and traits

Day 7: All's well that ends well		1. Choose the best concluding sentence Activity: Write your own alternate ending to a famous story.
Day 7: All's well that ends well
1. Choose the best concluding sentence Activity: Write your own alternate ending to a famous story.

Day 8: What's wrong with this picture?		1. Correct errors with signs 2. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Day 8: What's wrong with this picture?
1. Correct errors with signs 2. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

Day 9: Get organized		1. Read graphic organizers 2. Organize information by main idea
Day 9: Get organized
1. Read graphic organizers 2. Organize information by main idea

Day 10: Five-star recommendations		Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.
Day 10: Five-star recommendations
Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.

Day 11: It's tradition		1. Read about art, music, and traditions 2. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
Day 11: It's tradition
1. Read about art, music, and traditions 2. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1

Day 12: You can do anything		1. Read about sports and hobbies 2. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
Day 12: You can do anything
1. Read about sports and hobbies 2. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment

Day 13: Spoiler alert!		1. Make predictions about a story Activity: Read a chapter of a book, then try to guess what will happen in the next chapter. Now read the chapter. Were you right?
Day 13: Spoiler alert!
1. Make predictions about a story Activity: Read a chapter of a book, then try to guess what will happen in the next chapter. Now read the chapter. Were you right?

Day 14: New frontiers		1. Read science fiction with illustrations 2. Read about business and technology
Day 14: New frontiers
1. Read science fiction with illustrations 2. Read about business and technology

Day 15: Level up your language		Pick two "Grammar and mechanics" skills to practice.
Day 15: Level up your language
Pick two "Grammar and mechanics" skills to practice.

Day 16: Get the gist		1. Summarize a story 2. Determine the main idea of a passage
Day 16: Get the gist
1. Summarize a story 2. Determine the main idea of a passage

Day 17: Then and now		1. Read historical fiction 2. Read realistic fiction with illustrations
Day 17: Then and now
1. Read historical fiction 2. Read realistic fiction with illustrations

Day 18: Where am I?		Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.
Day 18: Where am I?
Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.

Day 19: Don't misquote me		1. Identify and correct plagiarism 2. Punctuating dialogue
Day 19: Don't misquote me
1. Identify and correct plagiarism 2. Punctuating dialogue

Day 20: Do you believe in magic?		1. Read fantasy with illustrations Activity: Imagine you find a magic bottle that contains a genie. The genie offers to grant you three wishes. Write about what you would wish for and why.
Day 20: Do you believe in magic?
1. Read fantasy with illustrations Activity: Imagine you find a magic bottle that contains a genie. The genie offers to grant you three wishes. Write about what you would wish for and why.