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Fourth Grade Reading Comprehension

These fourth grade reading comprehension resources help kids in the upper elementary grades gain fluency with reading and boost their confidence with different types of text. Worksheets, lesson plans and activities provide fourth grade reading comprehension help, covering principles such as fiction vs nonfiction, paraphrasing and identifying the main idea. When you are ready to move on, check out our fifth grade reading comprehension resources.

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Fiction Comprehension

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Explore "The Secret Garden" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: The Kitten

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

Sugar and Spice

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Reading Closely

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.

Put the Story Sequence in Order

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring character of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Amazing Animals Adaptations!

Students put their knowledge of animal adaptations to the test when they create a new creature with its own unique set of adaptations!

Reading Comprehension

These articles, short stories, fairy tales and fables teach kids about a wide range of subjects so your child can learn more about history and science while improving literacy and vocabulary skills.

Reading Response

Keep your budding reader organized with a reading response journal! Print out several of these response pages to create a homemade reading log.

Read and Think Bookmarks

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Short and Sweet Summaries

Use this resource with your students to practice writing concise fiction summaries.

Reading Comprehension: Dr. Dolittle

Young readers can build their comprehension skills as they read this passage from a children's classic, "The Story of Dr. Dolittle."

The Elephant's Child: Reading Comprehension

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's delightful story, "The Elephant's Child", complete with a word search and reading comprehension questions about the story!

Sum It Up: Introduction to Writing Summaries

Students are often taught that written pieces should be long and detailed, but this isn't the case when it comes to summaries. This lesson gives students the chance to practice keeping summaries concise in a fun and engaging way.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Get Ready for Fourth Grade

This summer-themed workbook prepares students to enter the fourth grade with the skills they’ll need, and includes practice with the core subjects of word study, math, reading and writing.

Compare the Fairy Tales

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

The Crab that Played with the Sea

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Identify the Author's Purpose

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Tracking Character Traits

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Similes and Metaphors: Comparisons Done Right

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

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