Practice Makes Polished Level 4

Practice Makes Polished Level 4 is a supplemental practice workbook (with answer keys), not a complete language arts curriculum.

This flexible resource fills several needs:

• Use it alongside Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 4 or any other language arts program to ensure mastery and retention.
• Use it solo as remediation, enrichment, or summer learning.

The introductory material outlines two 36-week scheduling suggestions plus alternate 8- and 12-week summer schedules.  Includes Scope and Sequence, multiple scheduling options, Answer Keys, owl papercrafts, and student reference pages. It is designed to strengthen skills in grammar, spelling, reading, and writing. While it targets grade 4, it can be used for grades 3-6.

Plus you also get

• Charts and helps for student reference: No need to scramble for guides. They’re built in.
• Owl extension activities (drawing, paper crafts, and nature exploration ideas): Just for fun and to reinforce the owl theme.
• Complete answer keys: No second guessing yourself when you have all the right answers.

Short reading passages (with comprehension questions) center on owls — 16 unique owl species such as barn owls, screech owls, and red owls; and owl habitats, behaviors, and characteristics. To further the owl theme, use the extension activities at the back of the book which include drawing tutorials as well as papercrafts.

A broad variety of written activities means kids are never bored with this workbook:

• Spell with Color: Students use colored pencils to differentiate between consonants and vowels in spelling words.
• Word Shape Spelling: Words are written into boxes that match their letter shapes.
• Put Words in Order: Activities that require students to arrange words alphabetically.
• Word Play: Students fill in stories with different parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.
• Mark It! Word Usage Reviews: These focus on homophones, homonyms, and homographs as well as correct word usage.
• Write It Well: These activities encourage students to write different types of sentences, including imperative, declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative.
• Journal It!: Provides opportunities for creative writing and reflection on daily life, personal thoughts, weather descriptions and passages from the Book of Psalms or Proverbs.
• Mazes: For practicing parts of speech like pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions.
• Word Search: Students find and circle specific words within a grid or create their own word search puzzles.
• Hidden Picture: Students color sections based on different word types or parts of speech.
• Match-up: Students draw lines to connect words with their meanings or correct usage.
• Fill In It: Activities where students complete sentences with appropriate words, such as who’s or whose.
• Drawing Activities: Included within reading comprehension sections, asking students to draw scenes, animals, or characters from the stories.
• Owl Crafts: Optional activities such as drawing owls, making an owl journal, and creating paper owls.