Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4

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:
• Question and answer
• Main idea and details
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Time order

Nonfiction texts in the grade 4 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:
• ''Getting to Know Snakes'' Level P
• ''Weather and the Scientists Who Study It'' Level S
• ''From Power Plant to Lightbulb'' Level T

Geography:
• ''The Mystery of the Matching Continents'' Level R

Social Studies:
• ''Being an Active Citizen'' Level Q
• ''How Countries Create Their Economies'' Level T

Biography:
• ''Julia Morgan: Architect and Trailblazer'' Level P
• ''Roald Dahl: Master Storyteller'' Level S

How-to:
• ''How to Keep Your Teeth and Gums Healthy'' Level R
• ''How to Make Snacks More Healthful'' Level O

Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
• A close-reading activity
• A comprehension and vocabulary activity
• An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• A text structure analysis activity
• A culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:
• Overview article and writing prompts chart
• Five elements of nonfiction text chart
• Five structures of nonfiction text
• An answer key

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.

Key Features:

• 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 topics
• Contains teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.
• Contains an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.

These Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4 in Black, White are ideal for classroom learning and instruction.