Lesson Plans for Fourth Grade Reading

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It's packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

.... Explain that they will solve the four questions by identifying the answers in the text. Ask your students to take turns reading parts of the passage aloud. With new...

Close reading isn’t about just ticking through words on a page; it’s about absorbing ideas and expanding on them. In this lesson, students will use this strategy to make interpretations about a character's emotions through their actions.

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. 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.

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. 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.

...Students will be able to use context clues to identify and describe conflict and genre.* Ask students to get out their pencils and Reading Like a Writer, Writing...

Social studies, reading comprehension, and writing come together in this high-engagement lesson about Native American legends!

Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians! This lesson would fit perfectly in a unit about biographies or Black History Month.

Are your students ready to see narratives from a different perspective? This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first and third person points of view.

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills. Using T-charts and Venn diagrams, they'll analyze stories and explore different characteristics of fiction and nonfiction.

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin. Your students will enjoy writing a story about a character that they have created!

Teach your students the importance of text features with informational readings about endangered species around the world. This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.

In this lesson, your students will use guiding questions as a way to organize their thoughts about non-fiction reading. They will also gain an understanding of some of the factors that led to the colonization of the Middle Atlantic States.

..., setting, and events on the board. Talk through each, asking students to explain what they are and why they are important for reading. Remind your students that a...

... they might see when reading that describe setting, such as dark, bright, grassy, or house. Read the paragraph on page 15. Answer the first 3 questions as a class...

... interactive whiteboard. If these technologies are not available, read students an article and pass out copies so they can follow along. Upon reading the article, ask the...

... students to share their thoughts, and write some examples on their board. Ask students to think about the skills we use when reading informational text. Ask...

... challenge should find and illustrate idioms from their independent reading books. Support: Gather students who need extra support into a small group, and share a few...

... special language used to describe different aspects of the Underground Railroad. Tell students that they will be reading a passage about the Underground Railroad...

... article Presidential Pets. After reading, ask students to show a thumbs up if the article is nonfiction, or a thumbs down if it is fiction. Explain that this is a...

... these boycotts: What were the effects? How do they compare to the effects of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Support: Some students may benefit from reading the article with...

... short story by Langston Hughes called Thank You, Ma’am. Explain that while you are reading you want them to listen carefully and try to draw a conclusion (make a...