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Lesson Plans for Fourth Grade Reading

Teachers created these fourth grade reading lesson plans to focus on key skills, such as making inferences, identifying details, and understanding complex text.

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Reading Closely

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson.

Close Reading: Introduction

By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

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.

Reading Response Letters

Try reading response letters in your class.

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

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.

Detective Reading

...Ask your students to take turns reading parts of the passage aloud....

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.

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....

Native American Legends

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

Jazzy Bio Poems

Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians!

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.

Cause and Effect with Comic Strips

In this integrated reading and science lesson, students will explore the relationship between cause and effect.

Endangered Species Exploration

This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.

Head to Head Fiction Reflections

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers.

Two Points of View

This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first and third person points of view.

Pumpkin Creatures

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin.

Sounds Familiar!

Reading is about to come alive with onomatopoeia!

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills.

Middle Atlantic State Migration

In this lesson, your students will use guiding questions as a way to organize their thoughts about non-fiction reading.

See It, Don't Say It!

Students will practice identifying, reading, and creating words with silent letters.

Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

...Instruct your students to use the books that they are reading....

Sight Word Extravaganza

...Encourage students to search for these sight words as they are reading at school and at home....

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

...Have advanced students select a paragraph from a nonfiction classroom reading book....

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