At the 4th grade level students are ready to progress past sight words and move on to some higher projected vocabulary. Students start to see industrial words for the first time as they realize there are actually different places to work than just a school or where their parents work. If you look at each of these word walls you will quickly realize that the longer words are presented with less words. 4th Grade is the first time students are seeing new vocabulary words that are in some what of a tiered system. The first tier being basic words that they see every day (fair, frown, quiz). Then there are high frequency words that appear in academic language (outgoing, satisfied, encyclopedia). Then there are low or even very low frequency words (withdrawn, pleasurable) that students will rarely see and limited as to their use.
4th Grade Word Wall Words
Scroll down to view and print the word walls that are designed for Grade 4 students.
Ways To Describe People We Don't Know Well
These are terms that you might use to describe characteristics of people. There are 10 vocabulary words as the screen shot shows you.
Words That Describe Ourselves
The words on this wall are a bit extreme to describe qualities about people.
Mixed Word Wall
As you can see from this list, these are a really strange mixture of terms. These are all commonly used at the 4th grade level.
Emotional Word Wall
Outside of "shampoo", all these terms tend to drive strong emotions in one way or another.
People Who Put Time In
These are terms that you would use to describe people that dedicate a great deal of their time towards the pursuit of something.
4th Grade Word Wall Words
Before we get to the list of 4th grade word wall words, we must recap how word walls efficiently enhance the students' vocabulary. It is a method in which looking at the words, and their spellings can make an imprint on young minds, and since the wall stays up for a year by looking at it repeatedly, the words become part of the picture memory.
To help you set up a word wall in your class, we have skillfully created a list that includes words from all the basic subjects taught in the class. To make it clearer, we have categorized them here in alphabetical order. We do suggest you can use different styles of cards or colors for each subject as well.
My advice with these word walls is to post them weekly. Adding six to ten new vocabulary words every week should be commonplace for grade 4 students. The more experience students get with these words, the easier it will be for them. This is usually the last school aged year that students use Word Walls. Many teachers start to just assign words to students on their own and just keep the words available in the room as a reminder for themselves more than for the students. Believe me, I always found them as a helpful reminder just for my self as I went through the day. The vocabulary here is more difficult, not just to spell and pronounce, but to fully understand and take in within our realm of thinking and owning.
Here are all the terms we would recommend you include on your walls:
| Accomplish Argue Adaptation Alert Afford Ancestor Annual Arena Ascend Assist Awkward Appropriate Analyze Address Addend Abstract Attempt Attractive Absorb Access |
Basin Battery Basic Baggage Blossom Benefit Blend Burrow Border Breed Bounce Button Beggar Blood Bridge Between Beauty Brought Blanket Building Beast Bubble Bracket |
Clothing Common Cost Crime Current Called Cover Chore Couple Crooked Cottage Couldn't Cousin Cough Coin Crayon Calculate Carefree Century Concentrate |
Demonstrate Destructive Desire Descend Disclose Distract Dawn Dusk Develop Damage |
| Entertain Eager Entrance Extraordinary Enough Evening Electric Engine Earlier Easier Except Expect |
Forgive Famous Forever Fruit Flexible Fragile Frantic Focus Frontier Factor Foremost Furious |
Generous Geography Geologist Gentle Groceries Guard Gasoline |
Hospital Honor Hundredth However Happiest Hiking Humble Host Heroic Hardships Hollow |
| Impact Indicate Impossible Intel Information Inspire Instant Increase Invisible |
Jagged Jump Justify Judge Jacket |
Kneel Knight Known Knowledge Keyboard Knife Keeper Knack |
Limp Limb Literate Lack Load Lava Likely Listen Limit Laid Ladder |
| Milkshake Mountain Mouse Manufacturer Mature Mistrust Mock Modest Model Master Middle Meadow Meteor Minerals Mental Mantle Magma Maybe |
Noble Nightingale Notebook Normal Noisy Newspaper Nevertheless Neither Neighbor |
Obey Often Outstanding Orchard |
Peculiar Peer Plentiful Practice Precious Precaution Previous Proceed Proactive Permanent Precision Protest Pointless |
| Queasy Quotient Quail Question Quite Quiet Quit Quilt |
Railroad Reach Ready Remember Reason Recognize Release Request Represent Response Reveal Resist Reduce Recent |
Severe Shabby Shallow Sole Soul Source Sturdy Survive Surface Surf |
Terror Tidy Tidal Trophy Timetable Trustworthy Touche Terrible Theory Tupperware Tradition Typical Tragic |
| Umbrella Uniform Unicorn Undershirt Unknown Understandable Urge Uncle Umpire Underline Urban Utensils |
Van Vet Vow Video Vacuum Visa Vending Machine Veins Vocal Cords Villa Vaccine Violin Violet Valley Vegetable Vehicles Vineyard Volcano Village Vacation Vanilla Virus Vinegar Veil |
Which Waste Witch Would Worse Wagon Where Worst Witty World Worry Widen While Wheel Wafer Women Wound Wreck Water Width Whale Whole Wheat Wedge Whose Wired Woody White Wrist Welch Woman Weird Windy Worth Weigh Weave Write Wrath Whack Wrong Waist Whoop Watch Woven Whine Wrote |
Xylophone X-Ray Xmas Tree Xystos Xylems Xavier |
| You Year Yogurt Yes Yell Yippee Yo-Yo Yards Yummy Yule Yeasty Yuletide Yoga Yeehaw Yodel Yarn Yawn Yemen Yeah Yolk Youth Young Yelped Yacht Yahoo Yellow Yardstick Yourself Yesterday Yuck |
Zany Zeitgeist Zeppelin Zydeco Zigzag Zonked Zilch Zebec Zealot Zirconium Zenith Zygote Zoography Zip Zoo Zeppelin Zest Zinc Zombie Zucchini Zookeeper Zenith Zephyr Zeroes Zodiac Zealot Zanily Zombie Zagged Zipper Zinger Zipped Zester Zebras Zigzag Zapped Zoomed |
These word wall words are just suggestions. The vocabulary is not limited to this list. There are more words out there that can be added to this list. Hope we made your classroom decoration easier for you. Share this list with other teachers and students.