4th grade Genre Writing Resources

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Writing Workshop: Everyday Writing

Worksheet

Writing Workshop: Everyday Writing

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

What is a Narrative? Key Features

Worksheet

What is a Narrative? Key Features

In this activity, students will consider the key features of a narrative, such as plot, setting, rising action, and characters.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Writing Instructions

Worksheet

Writing Instructions

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Get Ready for Fourth Grade

Workbook

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Persuasive Writing for Kids

Worksheet

Persuasive Writing for Kids

Challenge your writer's critical thinking skills by asking him to pen a persuasive narrative in favor of or against an issue.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

Lesson plan

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Giving Directions: Tell Me How

Lesson plan

Giving Directions: Tell Me How

Students will have fun engaging in activities that develop their ability to write sequential step-by-step directions. This lesson helps young learners with being detailed and using transition words in their writing.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

Lesson plan

Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Amazing Animals Adaptations!

Lesson plan

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!

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Lesson plan

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Exploring the Narrative

Lesson plan

Exploring the Narrative

Teach your students to entertain readers with narrative writing. This lesson will help your students understand the genre, the different parts of a story, and elements such as character, setting, and conflict.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Lesson plan

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Persuasive Writing Assessment

Worksheet

Persuasive Writing Assessment

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Argument Writing: Pre-Writing Organizer

Worksheet

Argument Writing: Pre-Writing Organizer

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Letter Writing for Kids

Worksheet

Letter Writing for Kids

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

What is a Narrative? Kinds of Narratives

Worksheet

What is a Narrative? Kinds of Narratives

In this activity, students will explore different kinds of narratives.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Opinion Writing

Workbook

Opinion Writing

Let your voice be heard! This workbook challenges kids to express their opinions. But more importantly, they'll learn how to support opinions with good evidence and facts.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Create a Monster

Worksheet

Create a Monster

Many famous mythical creatures tend to reflect the geography of the land around their country of origin. What does your hometown monster look like?

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

My Perfect Pet

Lesson plan

My Perfect Pet

In this lesson, your students will go through the writing process to write about their perfect pets and then make a 3-D version of this pet, mount the final draft, and display it.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Rhyme Schemes

Worksheet

Rhyme Schemes

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Readers Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Worksheet

Readers Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have your child select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet