Provide your fourth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support standards-based learning paths.
The informational texts cover 4th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.
What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:
- dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
- close reading activity
- reading comprehension activity
- vocabulary activity
- text structure activity
The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.
Additional teacher support includes:
- Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference
- Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.
- Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students
The informational texts and structures cover:
Science Articles: Getting to Know Snakes (Question and Answer); Weather and the Scientists Who Study It (Main Idea and Details); From Power Plant to Light Bulb (Time Order)
Geography Article: The Mystery of the Matching Continents (Cause and Effect)
Social Studies Articles: Being an Active Citizen (Main Idea and Details); How Countries Create Their Economies (Compare and Contrast)
Biography Articles: Julia Morgan: Architect and Trailblazer (Time Order); Roald Dahl: Master Storyteller (Time Order)
How-to Articles: How to Keep Your Teeth and Gums Healthy (Cause and Effect); How to Make Snacks More Healthful (Compare and Contrast)
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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