Reading Vocabulary

Mrs. Hammersley's 4th Grade

Reading Vocabulary

Our reading book this year is Seeing Is Believing from Scott Foresman. There are six units with a different theme for each one. There are five stories in each unit.

Each week the vocabulary words come from the stories and there are reading skills and spelling words. On Fridays, the students have a reading comprehension test, a vocabulary test and a test on the spelling words. Click on each page below for a list of vocabulary words.

Unit 1 ~ Focus on Family
"A Visit with Grandpa", "Train to Somewhere", Yingtao's New Friend", "Family Pictures", and "Addie in Charge"

Unit 2 ~ A Wider View
"from The Cricket in Times Square", "A Big-City Dream", "I Love Guinea Pigs", "The Swimming Hole", and "Komodo Dragons"

Unit 3 ~ Keys to Success
"John Henry", "Marven of the Great North Woods", "On the Pampas", "The Storm", "Rikki-tikki-tavi"

Unit 4 ~ Timeless Stories
"Half-Chicken", "Blame It on the Wolf", "Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man", "The Disguise", "Keepers"

Unit 5 ~ Other Times, Other Places
"Amazing Alice", "A Peddler's Dream", "The Race for the North Pole", "Into the Sea", and "Space Probes to the Planets"

Unit 6 ~ Express Yourself!
"Koya's Cousin Del", "Children of Clay", "Coming Home", "Out of the Blue", and "Chocolate is Missing"