马立平四年级是“认字和阅读”阶段的最后一年，在这一年里，学生要再接再厉，最终完成 整个阶段认字 1400 多个并基本巩固的目标。使用教材是马立平中文四册。 四年级教材内容含有以下四个板块: 1. 课文 —— 承载教学的文字内容 2. 文字和语法 —— 向学生介绍课文中出现的一些常用字词的用法 3. 字形、字义、字音 —— 通过辨析帮助学生认识汉字字形、字义、字音的关系 4. 阅读材料 —— 用学生已经学习过的汉字写成，旨在起到复习和巩固的作用 四年级学生遇到的挑战，是阅读材料的量比三年级增加了——课本在阅读部分新辟了 一个“温故知新”的二级板块，即每周增加一篇之前教材里出现过的比较有趣的篇目，因 此，每周的阅读材料由三篇增加到四篇。在第二和第三单元里，“温故知新”板块的篇目 还配有繁体字版本，这是为五年级第一单元正式向学生介绍繁体字所做的铺垫:借助学生 熟悉的简体字文字资料，对繁体字有初步的接触和认识。
The fourth grade of Ma Liping is the last year of the “characters and reading” stage. During this year, students will make persistent efforts to complete the goal of recognizing more than 1400 words. The use of the textbook is the fourth volume of Ma Liping Chinese. The fourth grade textbook contains the following four sections: 1. Text - the textual content of the teaching 2. Text and grammar - introduce students to the usage of some common words that appear in the text 3. Glyphs, meanings, and pronunciations - Help students understand the relationship between Chinese characters, meanings, and meanings through analysis 4. Reading materials - written in Chinese characters that students have already learned, intended to be used for review and consolidation. The challenge for fourth-grade students is that the amount of reading material has increased over the third grade – textbooks are new in the reading section. A secondary section of “Warming New Knowledge”, which adds an interesting piece of text that appeared in the previous textbook every week. Therefore, the number of reading materials per week has increased from three to four. In the second and third units, the article "Warming the New" section Also comes with a traditional Chinese version, which is the basis for the official introduction of traditional Chinese characters to the first unit of the fifth grade: with the help of students Familiar Simplified Chinese characters and texts have preliminary contact and understanding of traditional Chinese characters.