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Revison of grade 4

Fourth year of elementary school

A school year involves many notions for students, teachers and parents. You care about your child’s success, and you want to review 4th grade with him or her. This is the last year of the second cycle. This page gives you access to the essential knowledge for the fourth year of elementary school. What’s more, it offers you unique Internet resources to support your youngster throughout the school year. In short, this page is an indispensable guide to French and math revision for grade 4. It is based on the Quebec Education Program, which is available on the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Quebec website.

Spelling and word meaning in Grade 4

Students must be able to :

Use a dictionary correctly
Identify letter position rules
Know the rules for capitalization and elision
Identify spelling constants
Distinguish between homophones: a/à, son/sont, ont/on, ses/ces, mes/mais
Remember word formation: prefixes and suffixes
Word meanings
Fixed expressions
Word relationships: word families, lexical fields, synonyms and antonyms

Grammar and agreement system for your learner

Your student should be able to master the following concepts:

Word classes
The noun: its gender, number (singular or plural), the addition of the “x” for the plural of certain words, the formation of the feminine form

Listen: word classes

The determinant:

Recognize a determiner
Identify the agreement of the determiner
Agree determiners with nouns

The Adjective :

Forming the plural and feminine forms of adjectives
Knowing that adjectives are receivers of agreement
Knowing adjective agreement
Recognize the agreement of adjectives following an attributive verb

The verb:

The conjugated verb and the infinitive verb
find a conjugated verb in a sentence

The pronoun:

Invariable words

The noun phrase: identify receivers, agreements, the noun complement function and its constructions.

Listen: the noun phrase

Syntax and punctuation in fourth grade

Your child will :

Observe sentence structure and constituents
Recognize the subject and identify the subject group
The predicate (verb group)
The sentence complement

Syntactic manipulations: addition, deletion, replacement and displacement

Sentence forms: positive and negative
Sentence types: declarative, interrogative and imperative

The ponctuation

Use commas to separate items in an enumeration
Understand the use of hyphens in direct speech

Conjugation for your 4th grader

Students must master the following concepts:

The present infinitive and its endings

Radical and ending

Conjugate the verbs avoir, être, aimer, dire and aller in the different tenses below and know their endings:

Present indicative, imperfect, future simple, present conditional, present participle and near future.

Grade 4 mathematics

The child will have to use and know the mathematical concepts in the following list.

Arithmetic

Student understands: the meaning and writing of numbers, natural numbers (placing in order), counting real and drawn collections, decomposing numbers, rules for agreeing and writing numbers.