1. 4 th Grade Academic Vocabulary Week #4

2. compound sentence 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: sentence composed of at least two independent clauses usually connected with a conjunction. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: “I have a lot of work to finish, so I will be up all night” is a compound sentence.

3. report 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: a usually detailed account or statement. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: I will need to write an entire report on the state of California.

4. conjunction 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: a word or expression that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: We found that some of the most common conjunctions are: and, or, but, for, and so.

5. subheadings 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: the heading or title of a subsection of a printed work. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: The subheading for this week's science lesson is “Food Chains”. Living Things Need Energy

6. tense 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: form of a verb used to show the past, present, or future time of the action. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: I ate a Double-Double is an example of the past tense of “eat”.

7. inverse operations 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: opposite operations, such as addition and subtraction. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example:The inverse operation of 6 + 6 = 12 is 12 – 6 = 6.

8. difference 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: The answer in a subtraction problem. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: Mrs. Bickford showed us that the difference between 6,565 and 501 is 6,064!

9. regroup 2. What does it mean? 3. Dictionary Definition: to use place value to exchange equal amounts when renaming a number. 4. Break it down: 5. Kid-Friendly Definition: 1. In class example: I regrouped the ones by borrowing 10 ones from the tens column.