Nelson Literacy 4a - Student Textbook is one of the 3 books set, 
which is: 
Nelson Literacy 4a - Student Textbook, 
Nelson Literacy 4b - Student Textbook, 
Nelson Literacy 4c - Student Textbook.

The set is approved by the Ontario Ministry of Education for the Grade 4 English Language course.

Author Team: Jennette MacKenzie, Miriam Trehearne, Carmel Crévola

Nelson Literacy 4a - Student Textbook is full of fascinating stories and articles.  Many of the topics are the same as those that the student will come across in their science, social studies and health study units.

It has 4 units.

Literature Unit: What a Story!
In this unit, the student will:
- connect to personal experiences;
- identify characteristics of a story:
- build a main idea in writing;
- identify purpose and audience for movie posters;
- practise common courtesies in conversation.

Science Unit: Habitats and Communities
- visualize while reading;
- visualize while listening;
- identify which details are important to the main idea in your writing;
- identify characteristics of descriptive text pattern;
- learn about habitats and communities.

Social Studies Unit: Medieval Times
In this unit, the student will:
- make predictions;
- identify some text features;
- write strong leads;
- identify conventions of book covers;
- learn about medieval times.

Health Unit: Healthy Living
In this unit, the student will:
- identify characteristics of cause-and-effect text pattern;
- find important ideas while reading;
- identify important information while listening;
- identify overt and implied messages in packaging;
- write strong endings;
- learn about healthy living.

Throughout the book, the student will learn the strategies on reading, writing, speaking, listening and media literacy, and trying out these strategies.

Full colors, 128 pages.