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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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4th grade
Fiction Comprehension
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4th grade
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Character Actions and Emotions
Lesson plan
Character Actions and Emotions
Use this lesson to help your ELs describe a character’s emotion based on actions. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Close Reading: Reading Through Character Emotion.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Sentence Parts and Making Predictions
Lesson plan
Sentence Parts and Making Predictions
In this lesson, students will practice identifying the subject and predicate of a sentence and making predictions with textual evidence as they read short fictional texts. Use it as a stand alone lesson or as a precursor to What's Next?
4th grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Compare and Contrast Fairy Tales
Worksheet
Compare and Contrast Fairy Tales
Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
What is a Memoir?
Worksheet
What is a Memoir?
Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Compare Similar Stories
Worksheet
Compare Similar Stories
Use this resource for your students to read two fiction texts and compare and contrast the characters, setting, and plot.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Thinking About Themes: Reflection Cards
Worksheet
Thinking About Themes: Reflection Cards
Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections
Worksheet
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections
Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Compare Story Elements
Worksheet
Compare Story Elements
Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts
3rd grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Rochelle's Birthday Surprise
Worksheet
Rochelle's Birthday Surprise
Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Compare & Contrast Supporting Characters
Worksheet
Compare & Contrast Supporting Characters
Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Literature Response Prompts
Worksheet
Literature Response Prompts
Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Author’s Purpose Task Cards
Worksheet
Author’s Purpose Task Cards
Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and help them determine the author's purpose.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Myths and Man
Lesson plan
Myths and Man
Popular fiction throughout the ages colors the way people speak. In this short lesson, students will read a myth and non-fiction paragraph in order to identify and define words that come from mythology.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Rudyard Kipling's Famous Folk Tales
Workbook
Rudyard Kipling's Famous Folk Tales
This abridged collection of classic Rudyard Kipling tales is paired with coloring pages and reading comprehension activities that will challenge and entertain your young reader.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Workbook
Point of View
Worksheet
Point of View
If your little one loves to read, teach her about the differences in narrative point of view with this worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Problem and Solution Summaries
Lesson plan
Problem and Solution Summaries
Use this lesson to guide your ELs towards identifying and discussing the problem and solution in a story. Teach this lesson as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Traditional Literature: Story Mapping.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Organize Your Questions
Worksheet
Organize Your Questions
Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Asking Questions: Before, During, and After
Worksheet
Asking Questions: Before, During, and After
This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Comparing Characters
Worksheet
Comparing Characters
Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
What is Fantasy?
Worksheet
What is Fantasy?
While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz
Worksheet
The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz
Learn more about one of the most famous characters in children's literature, The Wizard of Oz, in this character analysis sheet.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
The Secret Garden Setting
Worksheet
The Secret Garden Setting
The Secret Garden's setting tells you a lot about characters, plot, and conflict. Explore the role of setting in literature in this worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Develop Character and Setting
Worksheet
Develop Character and Setting
Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing
Worksheet
Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing
This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Summarizing with Sequence Words
Lesson plan
Summarizing with Sequence Words
This lesson helps students summarize fictional stories using sequence words. Students will have a chance to practice distinguishing the different parts of a story in this lesson, which can be taught as a precursor to Storyboard Superstars.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan

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