Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage fourth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more. Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fourth-grade students! Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all! Text structures include: • Question and answer • Main idea and details • Cause and effect • Compare and contrast • Time order Nonfiction texts in the grade 4 book include a variety of content-area topics: Science: • "Getting to Know Snakes" Level P • "Weather and the Scientists Who Study It" Level S • "From Power Plant to Lightbulb" Level T Geography: • "The Mystery of the Matching Continents" Level R Social Studies: • "Being an Active Citizen" Level Q • "How Countries Create Their Economies" Level T Biography: • "Julia Morgan: Architect and Trailblazer" Level P • "Roald Dahl: Master Storyteller" Level S How-to: • "How to Keep Your Teeth and Gums Healthy" Level R • "How to Make Snacks More Healthful" Level O Each unit includes: • Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective • A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary • A close-reading activity • A comprehension and vocabulary activity • An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion • A text structure analysis activity • A culminating text-based writing activity Additional teacher resources: • Overview article and writing prompts chart • Five elements of nonfiction text chart • Five structures of nonfiction text • An answer key Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.