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4th Grade Reading Lesson Plans

Apply our teacher-approved fourth grade reading lesson plans to focus on key skills for your classroom! Your students will learn to make inferences, identify key and supporting details, and understand complex text. Our themed lesson plans keep the classroom exciting - from learning about the plant life cycle to a rainy day experiment.

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4th Grade
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Reading Closely
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Reading Closely
Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Close Reading: Introduction
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Close Reading: Introduction
By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
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Close Reading: Reading Through Character Emotion
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Close Reading: Reading Through Character Emotion
Close reading isn’t about just ticking through words on a page; it’s about absorbing ideas and expanding on them.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Reading Response Letters
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Reading Response Letters
Try reading response letters in your class.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense
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Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense
Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
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Close Reading Through Word Choice
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Close Reading Through Word Choice
During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Detective Reading
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Detective Reading
...Ask your students to take turns reading parts of the passage aloud....
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details
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Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details
In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Reading the Clues, Understanding Plot Lesson Part II
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Reading the Clues, Understanding Plot Lesson Part II
....* Ask students to get out their pencils and Reading Like a Writer, Writing like a Reader workbooks....
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Making Text Connections
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Making Text Connections
It can be taught on its own or serve as a precursor to the Reading Response Letters lesson.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Character Actions and Emotions
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Character Actions and Emotions
It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Close Reading: Reading Through Character Emotion.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Native American Legends
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Native American Legends
Social studies, reading comprehension, and writing come together in this high-engagement lesson about Native American legends!
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Jazzy Bio Poems
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Jazzy Bio Poems
Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians!
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Cause and Effect with Comic Strips
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Cause and Effect with Comic Strips
In this integrated reading and science lesson, students will explore the relationship between cause and effect.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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It’s Game Time: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels
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It’s Game Time: Multisyllabic Words with R-Controlled Vowels
This fun and exciting lesson utilizes board games and movement to help students practice identifying, reading, and creating multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Diving into Earth's Oceans
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Diving into Earth's Oceans
After reading two different texts, they'll be ready to dive right into ocean paragraph writing.
4th Grade
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Endangered Species Exploration
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Endangered Species Exploration
This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Head to Head Fiction Reflections
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Head to Head Fiction Reflections
Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Read with Expression!
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Read with Expression!
Knowing how to identify types of sentences and read each kind with expression is an important component of reading fluency.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Two Points of View
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Two Points of View
This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first and third person points of view.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Pumpkin Creatures
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Pumpkin Creatures
This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin.
3rd Grade
Reading & Writing
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Main Idea and Supporting Evidence
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Main Idea and Supporting Evidence
It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Reading Closely.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Pun Visuals
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Pun Visuals
Students will use a webpage to help them understand puns in their future reading and writing endeavors.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Fiction Genres Library Exploration
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Fiction Genres Library Exploration
This lesson introduces them to many genres of fictional books so they can get off to a terrific start of fourth grade reading.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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Prepositional Phrases as Key Details
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Prepositional Phrases as Key Details
This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson.
4th Grade
Reading & Writing
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