Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum

Grammar Garden Grade 4

Clauses, sentence variety, and paragraphs that hold together

436coursebook pages, four quarters

127Preceptor Guide pages

156assessment & resource pages

Grammar Garden · Grade 4 · Language & writing curriculum

Key facts

Grade: Grade 4 — one of six grade levels in the K–5 sequence.
Format: Print-at-home PDFs. The Preceptor Guide is read page by page in the browser.
What is included: Four quarterly Student Coursebooks (436 pages), a yearlong 127-page Preceptor Guide, a 156-page Assessment & Resource Book, and a 6-page Student Reference Booklet.
The week: Five days: Learn & Notice · Practice Together · Build Sentences · Edit & Revise · Write & Show — combinable to four.
Practice online: The Grammar Garden Game is the browser practice companion — practice between lessons, never the lesson.
Price: Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
Open to everyone: 8 zoomable coursebook pages, the complete 127-page Preceptor Guide, and the full 36-week scope below.

Real pages from inside the coursebooks

See the language work your child will actually do

These pages were selected from across all four quarters to show instruction, sentence building, editing, and composition — not covers, contents pages, or empty writing lines.

Inside Grade 4

Grammar that grows into writing

The clause becomes the working unit: phrase versus clause, simple to compound to complex, fragments and run-ons repaired on sight — then objects and complements, the progressive tenses, well-placed modifiers, and writing with transitions and brief source use. Skills deliberately return after they are taught — applied again in sentence work, editing, and composition — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of terms.

Phrases versus clauses; simple, compound, complex
Objects, complements, and the progressive tenses
Modifiers placed where they belong
Transitions, elaboration, and brief source use

The published plan

Grade 4 scope and sequence, all 36 weeks

Generated from the curriculum’s own skill registry — the same source the books are built from — so this table cannot drift from what the coursebooks teach. Studio, benchmark, and capstone weeks are the program’s built-in review and assessment rhythm.

Week	Strand	Focus
1	Diagnostic	Orientation, baseline writing sample, and placement diagnostic
2	Sentence foundations	Sentence components
3	Sentence foundations	Phrase versus clause
4	Sentence foundations	Independent and dependent clauses
5	Sentence foundations	Simple and compound sentences
6	Sentence foundations	Complex sentences
7	Sentence foundations	Fragments, run-ons, and comma splices
8	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
9	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
10	Grammar and usage	Regular and irregular verb review
11	Grammar and usage	Progressive tenses
12	Grammar and usage	Modal auxiliaries and tense shifts
13	Grammar and usage	Agreement with intervening phrases
14	Grammar and usage	Pronoun agreement and clarity
15	Grammar and usage	Relative pronouns and relative adverbs
16	Grammar and usage	Frequently confused words
17	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative studio
18	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
19	Grammar and usage	Adjective order and determiners
20	Grammar and usage	Adverbs and modifier placement
21	Grammar and usage	Prepositional phrases
22	Sentence development	Combining and varying sentences
23	Mechanics	Commas in coordinate/introductory structures
24	Mechanics	Dialogue and quotation punctuation
25	Mechanics	Titles, italics/underlining, and possessives
26	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
27	Application	Application task
28	Composition	Paragraph architecture
29	Composition	Transitions and cohesion
30	Word meaning and reference	Precise language and relevant detail
31	Composition	Narrative
32	Composition	Informative writing with brief source use
33	Composition	Opinion/response with evidence
34	Language for purpose	Revise for purpose and audience
35	Editing and revision	Edit and publish
36	Capstone	Portfolio capstone

The Grade 4 package

All seven books, shown exactly

Four quarterly Student Coursebooks, the yearlong Preceptor Guide, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — every book in the grade package, with its real page count. The book files’ own cover pages carry the series’ cover title, Strong Sentences: Grammar, Writing & Composition, under the Faith Readers imprint.

Quarter 1 · Weeks 1–9

Student Coursebook

89 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 2 · Weeks 10–18

Student Coursebook

98 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 3 · Weeks 19–27

Student Coursebook

116 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 4 · Weeks 28–36

Student Coursebook

133 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Preceptor Guide · yearlong

Complete guide, visible before enrollment

Read all 127 pages online — the weekly rhythm, scripting, and answers in context. The teacher PDF is not publicly mounted and has no download action.

Assessment & Resource Book

Diagnostics, benchmarks, reteach cards

156 pages: the entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks with scoring, reteach cards for every skill, and anchor charts.

Student Reference Booklet

The rules in one durable place

A 6-page booklet of the grade’s rules and models — printed once, kept beside the child all year.

Faith Schooling All Access

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All Access includes every Grade 4 book on this page — the four coursebooks, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — along with the wider curriculum and practice library.

Included with All Access

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