4th grade toolkit

$129.00
  • Includes a comprehensive deck of Learning Target cards for essential skills and real-world projects.

  • Includes an access code to our Digital Dashboard, with systems to track progress, video tutorials on the habits and parent resources to engage your student with ease. This includes digital tools that can generate math problems, texts and quizzes for the books they are reading.

  • Features the Innovation Notebook to capture creativity and insights. It includes two insert sections to help you monitor and celebrate:

    Your Responsibility Data Tracker

    This is a space for you and your child to track your progress throughout the year. Your goal is to fill in your checks each month for completing habit cards, projects and other family responsibilities you designate.

  • Celebrate Your Wins

    At the end of the book, you’ll find a sticker puzzle. We recommend adding a sticker each time your student completes a project or practices a specific habit three times.

  • Includes a comprehensive deck of Learning Target cards for essential skills and real-world projects.

  • Includes an access code to our Digital Dashboard, with systems to track progress, video tutorials on the habits and parent resources to engage your student with ease. This includes digital tools that can generate math problems, texts and quizzes for the books they are reading.

  • Features the Innovation Notebook to capture creativity and insights. It includes two insert sections to help you monitor and celebrate:

    Your Responsibility Data Tracker

    This is a space for you and your child to track your progress throughout the year. Your goal is to fill in your checks each month for completing habit cards, projects and other family responsibilities you designate.

  • Celebrate Your Wins

    At the end of the book, you’ll find a sticker puzzle. We recommend adding a sticker each time your student completes a project or practices a specific habit three times.

Our Digital Dashboard and Toolbox are built to give you exactly what you need to succeed with each card, right at your fingertips.

Here are a few sample cards to see how is easy this is. We have one from each habit, a sample project and an SEL activity.

4th Grade

Mixed Sampler

A custom sampler pulling one card or skill from each subject — Math, Language, Projects, and SEL — each keeping its own subject color.

CarTalk routine icon M1Math

Factors and Multiples — Factoring

I can find all factor pairs for a whole number.
4.OA.B.4
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Prompt 1 — Factoring

Let's try factoring numbers! Factoring is when we find all the pairs of numbers that multiply to make our target number. We can start with 24.

Factor pairs reference
Card back reference

• As you review all the ways to make 24. Pause and let them try to find the last few.

Play Tennis

• Play “Tennis” with 36. You name one factor, your child names its pair:

(1,36) (2,18) (3,12) (6,6)

• Try other target numbers:

20, 48, 50, 72.

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Modeling routine icon M4Math

Multiplication of Large Numbers — Area Model

I can use the area model to multiply two 2-digit numbers.
4.NBT.B.5
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Skill 1 — Area Model (Box Method) for 2×2 Multiplication

I Do

Area box model reference
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• Model 34 × 26 using an Area Box drawn on graph paper:

Break numbers into expanded form: (30 + 4) and (20 + 6).

Draw a 2 × 2 box grid:

Top-left: 30 × 20 = 600

Top-right: 4 × 20 = 80

Bottom-left: 30 × 6 = 180

Bottom-right: 4 × 6 = 24

Area box model filled reference
Card back reference (filled in)

Add all 4 partial products: 600 + 180 + 80 + 24 = 884

Area box model final answer reference
Card back reference (final answer)

We Do Draw boxes and solve together:

43 × 18 =

52 × 37 =

Math Generator

Click to generate more problems like this.

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StoryTime routine icon L5Language

Summarizing using Text Structure — Narrative Summary

I can summarize a narrative using its key story elements.
RL.4.2 · RI.4.2 · RI.4.5
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Skill 1 — Narrative Summary

Summarize the latest chapter book you have read by using:

• Somebody: Who is the main character?

• Wanted: What was their goal?

• But: What problem/conflict did they face?

• So: What action did they take to solve it?

• Then: How did the story or chapter end?

Book Quiz

Our Book Quiz will allow your student to quiz after they have read their book. We have included over 150 of the most popular books at their grade level.

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Listen and Write routine icon L9Language

Quotations — Advanced Dialogue Conventions

I can correctly punctuate dialogue with commas, quotation marks, and capitalization.
L.4.2b · L.4.2c · L.4.2d
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Skill 1 — Advanced Dialogue Conventions

Practice placing commas, quotation marks, and capital letters correctly:

"If we leave now," whispered Maya, "we can beat the traffic."

The teacher asked, "Has everyone submitted their project?"

Use Listen and Write to give them more practice sentences like these:

"I love playing soccer," said Tyler, "because it is my favorite sport."

The coach shouted, "Run to the finish line!"

"Don't forget your lunch box," Mom reminded us, "or you will be hungry at school."

"Where are my keys?" asked Mr. Davis.

Lily smiled and said, "We are going to the zoo tomorrow."

Listen & Write Generator

Use our Listen & Write Generator for grade-level dictation words, sentences, and paragraphs read aloud.

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Modeling routine icon P2Projects

Your Superpower Narrative Fiction

Expand a personal memory into a detailed narrative using dialogue, sensory description, and pacing, conveying a clear thematic lesson.
W.4.3 · RL.4.2 · L.4.1e · L.4.2b
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Card A — Story Mapping

Brainstorm superpower reference
Card back reference

I Do Look over the example brainstorm on the back of the card, and tell me how they organized their ideas.

We Do Have your child divide a notebook page into 4 quadrants. Brainstorm a focused 20-minute memory, outline the arc, and articulate the lesson learned (e.g., "Patience and teamwork can turn a disaster into an adventure").

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Card B — Drafting with Sensory Detail

I Do Demonstrate expanding story points into descriptive sentences using sensory imagery (sight, sound, touch) and prepositions to show spatial relationships.

We Do

• Have your child state sentences aloud before writing

• Focus on pacing — slow down the most critical moment with internal thoughts and physical reactions, beat by beat

• Encourage advanced word choices (e.g., "scared" → "apprehensive" or "trembling")

• Discuss how the superpower would change how they feel about themselves and others.

• Decide how they will use their super power to solve a problem and create and ending to the story.

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Card C — Revising, Editing & Publishing

I Do The art of revising is to take your writing from GOOD to GREAT. Before we get started, let's compare these two student essays. What is the difference?

Good — The Day I Saved the Class Pet

One sunny Tuesday, I was at school sitting at my desk. My secret superpower is that I can turn invisible whenever I hold my breath. Nobody at school knows about it except my best friend Maya.

During quiet reading time, our class hamster, Barnaby, escaped from his cage! Mr. Davis noticed the cage door was open and gasped. Barnaby was running super fast under the tables. Everyone started yelling and looking for him, which made Barnaby get scared and hide under a giant bookshelf in the back of the room. The gap under the bookshelf was really small, and if we moved it, it might crush him.

I knew I had to act fast. I took a big deep breath and turned totally invisible. Since no one could see me, I didn't have to worry about anyone stepping on my hands or asking what I was doing. I crawled quietly over to the bookshelf. I reached my arm far underneath the dark space.

Because I was invisible, Barnaby wasn't scared of a big human coming at him. I gently scooped him up into my hands. Then I walked back over to the cage, let my breath out, and became visible again right in front of the cage!

"I found Barnaby!" I shouted. Everyone cheered and Mr. Davis gave me two prize tickets. Being invisible helped me save our class pet without scaring him away.

Great — A Breeze of Fresh Air

It was a sweltering ninety-degree afternoon, and the air conditioning in Room 14 had completely died. Ms. Gable was trying to teach long division, but everyone was slouched over their desks like melting popsicles. Sweat was dripping down my face, and my friend Sophia was fanning herself with a notebook, looking like she might pass out.

That was when I decided to use my secret power: Aerokinesis, which means I can control and generate wind currents with my hands. I have to keep it a secret so scientists don't test me in a lab, but this was a real emergency.

Carefully hiding my hands under my desk so no one would notice, I snapped my fingers three times to activate my power. I pointed my fingers toward the open classroom windows and gently swept my arms upward.

Instantly, a crisp, cool breeze swept in through the blinds. I focused hard, making the air swirl around the classroom like a gentle vortex. It rustled our worksheets, cooled down our sweaty foreheads, and blew away the stuffy heat. I kept the breeze focused right near the ceiling so it felt just like a giant ceiling fan was running overhead.

"Oh, thank goodness for that refreshing breeze!" Ms. Gable exclaimed, wiping her forehead and smiling. Everyone sat up straight, instantly refreshed and energized. Sophia turned to me and whispered, "Where did that cool wind come from?" I just smiled and pretended to adjust my papers.

Thanks to my wind powers, Room 14 survived the hottest day of the year, and we even finished our math lesson on time!

We Do Guide revising for sentence variety, dialogue punctuation, and precise vocabulary. Publish a final handwritten or typed copy with an illustration of the climax.

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SEL 3SEL

Respectful & Supportive

I am respectful and supportive of others.

Look at the image. Amara gets a math problem wrong on the board in front of the class. Some kids snicker. She has two choices: laugh it off and stop raising her hand for the rest of the year, or ask the teacher to explain what she got wrong.

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Card reference

What makes the second choice harder in the moment?

Why might a scholar choose the harder option anyway?

What's the difference between being wrong and being a bad student?

Have you ever had a moment like Amara's? What did you do?

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Math Habits

M1Factors and Multiples
M2Addition and Subtraction with Large Numbers
M3Place Value
M4Multiplication of Large Numbers
M5Division with Remainders
M6Word Problems with Variables
M7Comparing Fractions
M8Adding Fractions
M9Decimals
M10Elapsed Time and Unit Conversions
M11Area & Perimeter
M12Geometry

Language Habits

L1Attacking Unknown Words
L2Sight Words
L3Fluency
L4Figurative Language
L5Summarizing using Text Structure
L6Text-Based Evidence
L7Character Development
L8Sentences
L9Quotations
L104th Grade Grammar
L11Vocabulary

Projects

P1Publish a Reference Book
P2Your Superpower Narrative Fiction
P3Persuasive Letter
P4Comparing Authors
P5Measurement Data Analysis
P6Architectural Floor Plan (Area & Perimeter)
P7The Stock Market Challenge

SEL

SEL 1Choices Affect Others
SEL 3Respectful & Supportive
SEL 4Everyone Learns Differently
SEL 5Standing Up Online
SEL 6Being Inclusive
SEL 7Listening to Feedback
SEL 8Looking Deeper
SEL 9Celebrating Difference