Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fourth-grade students!Contains nonfiction texts that include a variety of content-area topicsContains teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.Contains an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.
Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage fourth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fourth-grade students!
Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!
Text structures include:
o Question and answer
o Main idea and details
o Cause and effect
o Compare and contrast
o Time order
Nonfiction texts in the grade 4 book include a variety of content-area topics:
Science:
o "Getting to Know Snakes" Level P
o "Weather and the Scientists Who Study It" Level S
o "From Power Plant to Lightbulb" Level T
Geography:
o "The Mystery of the Matching Continents" Level R
Social Studies:
o "Being an Active Citizen" Level Q
o "How Countries Create Their Economies" Level T
Biography:
o "Julia Morgan: Architect and Trailblazer" Level P
o "Roald Dahl: Master Storyteller" Level S
How-to:
o "How to Keep Your Teeth and Gums Healthy" Level R
o "How to Make Snacks More Healthful" Level O
Each unit includes:
o Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
o A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
o A close-reading activity
o A comprehension and vocabulary activity
o An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
o A text structure analysis activity
o A culminating text-based writing activity
Additional teacher resources:
o Overview article and writing prompts chart
o Five elements of nonfiction text chart
o Five structures of nonfiction text
o An answer key
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.