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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

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: Peter Pan

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

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.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

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

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.

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!

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.

Detective Reading

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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.

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!

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."

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.

Practice Reading by Getting into Character!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Simple Summary Reading Log

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Paraphrasing Practice

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

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?

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.

Rochelle's Birthday Surprise

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Endangered Species: Amur Leopard

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

Reading Nonfiction

Explore nonfiction with this set of short and sweet facts on notable people, places and events in history. Young readers can practice taking notes, answering questions and analyzing primary sources.

Find the Theme Flowchart

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

The Story of Orion

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

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