Fourth Grade Teach-It Guides
Need a refresher before teaching a tricky topic? Choose exactly what you need.
Parent Teach-It Guides break down concepts in parent-friendly language, show you how to explain them to your child, and walk you through teaching the skill step-by-step.
16 guides found
Recording Data and Drawing Conclusions
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader how to record experimental data, analyze results, and draw evidence-based conclusions.
Place Value to Millions and Decimals
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about place value with large numbers (millions) and an introduction to decimal place value (tenths and hundredths).
Angles, Lines, and Symmetry
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about angles, types of lines, and symmetry in shapes.
How Citizens Participate in Democracy
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about civic participation — voting, campaigning, contacting representatives, and making a difference in the community.
How Communities Change and Grow
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about how communities change over time, how people work together to improve them, and the role of immigration in shaping communities.
Earth's Systems and Changes
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about Earth's major systems — the water cycle, weather, climate, plate tectonics, and how Earth changes over time.
Adaptations and Survival
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader how animals and plants develop traits that help them survive in their environments.
Writing Strong Paragraphs
A parent's guide to teaching paragraph writing, including topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences.
Long Division with One-Digit Divisors
A parent's guide to teaching long division step-by-step, including the standard algorithm and how to handle remainders.
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
A parent's guide to teaching fraction addition and subtraction with like denominators, including visual models and the path to unlike denominators.
Vocabulary: Figurative Language and Academic Words
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader to understand figurative language and build academic vocabulary for reading across subjects.
Converting Measurements and Elapsed Time
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about converting between measurement units and calculating elapsed time.
Understanding Decimals
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about decimals — what they are, how they relate to fractions, and how to compare, add, and subtract them.
Multi-Digit Multiplication
A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader to multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.
The Three Branches of Government
A comprehensive 4th-grade teaching guide for the three branches of the U.S. government.
The Bill of Rights
A comprehensive teaching guide for 4th-grade students covering the Bill of Rights and the historical context of its creation.