Our 5 favorite fourth grade writing worksheets

Prepositions

In this writing worksheet, your child will write the right preposition — e.g. by, for, from, etc. — to complete the first set of sentences. Then, your child gets practice writing 10 original sentences using prepositional phrases.

Skills your fourth grader will work on: prepositions, prepositional phrases, building vocabulary, and writing complex sentences.

Colons, semicolons, and dashes

In this writing worksheet, your child gets punctuation practice, learning when it's appropriate to use a dash, semicolon, or colon.

Skills your fourth grader will work on: punctuation, dash, semicolon, colon, editing, writing practice, and English grammar.
 

Soft c and homophones

In this writing worksheet, your child will use the dictionary, looking up words with a soft c sound and homophones.

Skills your fourth grader will work on: using a dictionary, letter sounds (phonemes), decoding homophones, and building vocabulary.

Writing complex sentences

In this writing worksheet, your child will combine two simple sentences into a complex sentence with the help of conjunctions, such as so, as, and though.

Skills your fourth grader will work on: conjunctions, joining words, compound sentences, sentence structure, editing, writing practice, and English grammar.

Write like a reporter!

In this writing worksheet, your child gets practice using a source to write a news article.

Skills your fourth grader will work on: reading comprehension, interpreting and inferring, evaluating an argument, fact versus opinion, writing an article, and writing practice.

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