4th grade Making Inferences in Non-Fiction Texts Resources

Inference Detectives

It’s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Inferences & Evidence

Inferences & Evidence

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Spelling Champ

Character Actions and Emotions

Spelling Champ

Challenge your fourth grader with these spelling worksheets that include grade-specific words and word problems involving new vocabulary.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

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

Jazzy Bio Poems

What Keeps the Moon in Orbit?

Jazzy Bio Poems

Integrate reading, writing, and social studies in this lesson about famous jazz musicians! This lesson would fit perfectly in a unit about biographies or Black History Month.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

What Keeps the Moon in Orbit?

Have you ever wondered what keeps the moon in orbit? Newton's first law gets a quick introduction, too, in this worksheet for kids. Check it out!

4th grade

Science

Worksheet

Great Wall of China

Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

Great Wall of China

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

Reading and writing: You can't have one without the other! Get familiar with every facet of literature in this workbook. It's packed with literary analysis activities.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Roman Coliseum

Roman Coliseum

Back in Ancient Rome, families didn't have a movie theater or a mall to visit on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Instead, they went to the Coliseum!

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Calling All Homophones

Journey on the Underground Railroad

Calling All Homophones

Write right with homophones! This interactive lesson will help students with their understanding of homophones by differentiating homophones through motion and how they are used in sentences.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Journey on the Underground Railroad

This lesson combines historical facts and creative writing to engage students in exercises that enhance both vocabulary and social studies knowledge.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Skywatchers

Skywatchers

This workbook explores the myths, science, and history of our efforts to understand the skies with light reading. Introduce kids to gravity, moon phases and stars with basic activities and stories.

4th grade

Science

Workbook

What's For Breakfast?

What's For Breakfast?

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Genres

Steps to Make an Inference

Genres

What is a literary genre? In this book, thumb through interesting quotes and the most popular genres. Your child has a chance to flex writing skills in a fun way as he analyzes what makes each unique.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Cause and Effect: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Steps to Make an Inference

It's time to infer! Students will read a variety of short passages and make inferences using modals and a step-by-step graphic organizer. It can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Inference Detectives.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

4th Grade Spelling Test: Hail to the Chief

Cause and Effect: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Your students may know about Rosa Parks, but do they know about the Montgomery Bus Boycott that her famous action inspired? Enhance students' knowledge of this important part of the Civil Rights movement while teaching cause and effect.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Endangered Species Exploration

4th Grade Spelling Test: Hail to the Chief

Put your child in command of her vocabulary with this presidentially-themed spelling test especially for 4th graders.

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

Endangered Species Exploration

Teach your students the importance of text features with informational readings about endangered species around the world. This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

The Secret Garden Setting

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 1

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

Let's Play Rivers Jeopardy

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 1

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Let's Play Rivers Jeopardy

Let's play jeopardy! In this interdisciplinary lesson, students learn about American rivers, create game questions about the rivers, and then play the game.

4th grade

Lesson plan

Glyphs and Codes

Alice in Wonderland Characters

Glyphs and Codes

Explore the role that symbols and codes have in helping us interact with one another. If it's about the art of communication you'll find it in here!

4th grade

Social studies

Workbook