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The 4th grade reading comprehension activities below are coordinated with the 4th grade spelling words curriculum on a week-to-week basis, so both can be used together as part of a comprehensive program, or each can be used separately. The worksheets include fourth grade appropriate reading passages and related questions. Each worksheet (as well as the spelling curriculum ) also includes a cross-curricular focus on earth science, physical science, history, social sciences, mathematics and life sciences. This allows students to build their reading comprehension skills and reinforce knowledge in other subject areas. There are 36 weeks of fourth grade worksheets, following most standard school year calendars.
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Anatomy of a Circle
Week 30 Reading Comprehension (D-30). A short explanation about the radius, diameter, and center of a circle. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Basic Geometry Terms
Week 25 Reading Comprehension (D-25). A short summry of the different terms used in geometry. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Branches of Government
Week 29 Reading Comprehension (D-29). A reading segment about the different branches of government. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Chaparral Ecosystems
Week 3 Reading Comprehension (D-3). A passage and questions about relatively rare shrubland communities called Chaparral ecosystems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Week 20 Reading Comprehension (D-20). A short passage about electricity, conductors, and static electricity. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.
Discrimination Against Gold Rush Immigrants
Week 15 Reading Comprehension (D-15). Comprehension activity about the discrimination against gold rush immigrants in the 1850?s. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Eastern Woodland Natives
Week 32 Reading Comprehension (D-32). Reading passage about the Eastern Woodlands, a Native American cultural region. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Ecology: Taking Care of Earth
Week 36 Reading Comprehension (D-36). A description about the study of ecology and what it involves. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Week 2 Reading Comprehension (D-2). Reading segment about ecosystems, organisms, and communities. Cross-Curricular Focus:Life Science.
Endangered Species
Week 11 Reading Comprehension (D-11). A life science reading comprehension passage about endangered species. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Eratosthenes: Geographer and Mathematician
Week 16 Reading Comprehension (D-16). A short story and related questions about the world’s first geographer. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences / Mathematics
Week 10 Reading Comprehension (D-10). A reading segment about using estimation in mathematics. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Evaluating Efficiency
Week 33 Reading Comprehension (D-33). A passage about determining the best way to solve problems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Expressions with Parentheses
Week 13 Reading Comprehension (D-13). A reading segment about how parentheses are used in solving math problems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Gold Rush Boomtowns
Week 19 Reading Comprehension (D-19). A passage about the origination of boomtowns during the gold rush in California. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Hide and Seek
Week 8 Reading Comprehension (D-8). A reading passage and questions about the role of camouflage in the predator-prey relationship. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Import Export
Week 21 Reading Comprehension (D-21). How early American colonies imported and exported products. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Magnetic Attraction
Week 23 Reading Comprehension (D-23). A reading comprehension passage about the properties of magnetism. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.
Measuring Temperature
Week 35 Reading Comprehension (D-35). A segment about temperature and the different scales used for measurement. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.
Natural Resources
Week 6 Reading Comprehension (D-6). Passage and questions about renewable and non-renewable natural resources. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
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4th Grade Reading Comprehension
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Finding key points
In this reading worksheet, your child will read a short informational passage and then underline key points and answer questions about the language and content of the passage.
Making metaphors
How many metaphors can you find in this poem? In this language arts worksheet, your child learns to spot metaphors, determine their meaning from context, write them as similes, and decide which metaphors are most effective and why. Bonus: your child gets practice writing poetry using metaphors.
New words: make a conservation dictionary
Make your own dictionary of words about conservation! In this language arts worksheet, your child will look up words related to pollution prevention and write each word's definition. Bonus: your child gets practice alphabetizing words!
Poems: The Rabbit
In this language arts worksheet, your child will read the poem aloud and then answer questions about the poem's meaning and language.
Putting sentences in order
Can you fix this paragraph? It's all out of order! In this language arts worksheet, your child will put the sentences into logical order and then rewrite the paragraph using compound and complex sentences.
Reading comprehension: David Copperfield
Here's an excerpt from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. In this reading worksheet, your child will read a description of young David's life and answer questions about the story, point of view, character's feelings, and use of language.
Reading comprehension: Hard Times
Here's an excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens. In this reading worksheet, your child will read a description of Coketown and answer questions about Dickens' use of language.
Reading comprehension: letter of complaint
What does this writer want? In this language arts worksheet, your child reads a letter to the city council and then answers questions about the writer's intent, language, and reasons.
Reading comprehension: The Mango Tree
In this language arts worksheet, your child will read three parts of a traditional story from India and answer questions about the characters' feelings using complete sentences.
Reading comprehension: thunder and lightning
Here is a scientific description of thunder and lightning. In this language arts worksheet, your child will read an informational passage and then answer questions about what happened and practice replacing descriptive words.
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By the time students reach the fourth grade, they have mastered the basics of phonics and decoding and are starting to dig deeper into understanding what they’re reading. It’s a great time to introduce learning strategies that will help them be lifelong readers. Here are a dozen ways to boost fourth grade reading comprehension.
1. Color-code your thinking
Taking notes and highlighting reading passages with color can help students differentiate, retain, and transfer knowledge as well as pay attention to critical information for meaningful learning. Teach your students to use colors to highlight passages as they read to help them identify features such as main idea, details and vocabulary words. Or use different colors to mark different sections of a graphic organizer.
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2. Try think-alouds
Another way to improve fourth grade comprehension is through think-alouds. While reading a text to students, share the questions and answers that are going through your mind. For example, “How does the story make you feel?”
Learn more: The Balanced Literacy Diet
3. Watch a story-elements rap video
You know how they say setting learning to music helps improve retention? Well, with this story-elements rap video, kids will find themselves chanting the chorus long after they watch it. And if rap’s not your thing, check out this list of Our Favorite YouTube Videos for Teaching Story Elements.
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4. Play a round of reading comprehension Jenga
Who doesn’t love a rousing game of Jenga? The careful strategy in picking just the right block … the rush of successfully pulling out a block … the loud crash of the whole tower tumbling down! This classroom version is not only a blast, it helps boost reading comprehension skills. Score a used Jenga set at a garage sale or thrift store, then download this huge collection of fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension questions from Elementary Assessments.
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5. Beef up vocabulary skills
The more words a student knows, the greater their access to complex reading passages. Practice vocabulary skills in a fun way with these 20 Meaningful Vocabulary Activities . Draw vocabulary Sketchnotes , play Vocabulary Jeopardy, join the Million Dollar Word Club, and more. ADVERTISEMENT
6. Practice using context clues
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It is vitally important for all students to be able to use context clues to determine the definitions of unknown words. This poster and lesson plan from Crafting Connections will give your students the strategies they need to be a word detective.
7. Find creative ways to respond to reading
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Gone are the days of the dreaded, old-fashioned, stand-in-front-of-the-class and read your boring book report. How about making a mint-tin book report? Or a book report cake? Or a mobile made from a clothes hanger or a paper bag book report? These are just a few of the Creative Ways Kids Can Respond to Books we’ve rounded up to get your students excited about reading.
8. Learn about close-reading strategies
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Close reading is defined as “an intensive analysis of a text in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means.” And research shows that teaching students how to close-read helps them become better readers. The trick is spicing it up so that students apply close-reading skills without getting bored. Here are Innovative Teacher Ideas for Teaching Close Reading.
9. Create anchor charts together
From marking a text to visualizing to understanding a character’s journey, we’ve got the fourth grade reading comprehension anchor charts for you! Choose from dozens of colorful samples for you to build along with your students during direct instruction time.
10. Introduce figurative language
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Figurative language—things like metaphors, similes, and onomatopoeia—make reading more colorful and interesting. Understanding figurative language is a complex literacy skill that will stretch your students’ understanding. Center your lessons around these fantastic figurative language anchor charts .
11. Focus on theme
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To fully explore theme, students must be able to understand what they read and then extract ideas from the text. Here are essential tips for teaching theme in language arts .
12. Read between the lines
Learning to make inferences is a key literacy skill and something all good readers do. When students pause while they are reading to ask questions and make connections, it strengthens their comprehension. For more on this topic, visit Teaching With a Mountain View .
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Download these FREE 4th-grade reading comprehension worksheets and use them in class today! Each of the worksheets below focuses on a particular comprehension skill that 4th-grade students typically study. Students are asked to read the passage and then answer the reading comprehension questions on the next page.
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This next 4th-grade reading comprehension worksheet is a fictional story that teaches a lesson. Students are asked to read the passage and answer questions about the main message of the story and how the events and characters in the story help to convey this theme.
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Next is a 4th-grade reading comprehension worksheet about dinosaurs. Students are asked to read the passage and then answer the questions on the next page. Each question is designed to guide students to distinguish facts from opinions in the text.
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4th Grade Reading Comprehension Activities: Ideas, Projects, And Strategies
November 13, 2023 // by Suzanne Bucknam
Having your students be engaged in literary activities is a great way to get them excited about reading and answering questions. 4th grade students will enjoy creating or responding to these activities listed below. These projects can be altered depending on the questions you are working with, the books they are currently reading or the context you are hoping to use them in.
Using the same tools consistently will give the students an idea about what questions to expect, which always makes students more comfortable. You can more components to most of these activities or you can simplify them by eliminating certain sections.
1. Beach Ball Socratic Method
Using this fun and engaging activity will bring learning to life at a 4th grade level . You can also encourage your students to speak in full sentences by referring to these sentence stems. This activity can be done after a read-aloud.
Learn More: The Thrifty SLP
2. Roll and Retell
All that is required for this activity is a few dice. Students can work individually, in pairs, or in large groups to discuss different elements of the short story or book they are reading. Your 4th grade students will feel like they are playing a board game while they are learning.
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3. Build and Explain
Simply cutting and pasting or drawing symbols directly onto these cups is a comprehension activity that makes use of images to prompt retelling. Students could design and create their own stack or you can have a class set. Alternatively, this activity would be effective with small groups as well.
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4. Reading Comprehension Bracelets
This reading comprehension activity is easy to customize. You can change up the color codes of the beads if you do not have these on hand or students can make a necklace instead of a bracelet, depending on their preferences. They can take it home or keep it at school.
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5. Book Talks with Talking Points
Add these fun key-ring tools to your next book talk session. This aid will even be handy with 3rd grade kids or even older students. The students will answer questions based on the prompt they flip to. Each student could have their own copy or you could make only one.
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6. Reading Cootie Catcher
This idea is a fun spin and variation on an old favorite game that provokes nostalgia with many young students. They will begin by picking a color and then, the activity expands to having them answer multiple-choice and extended-response questions. Answering these questions is an essential skill.
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7. Yellow Brick Road
Students can create their own yellow brick road stones to discuss different components of a story, which is an essential skill or they can work on their inferencing skills. 1st graders, 2nd graders, and even 5th graders will understand the movie references hidden inside this game.
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8. Cheeseburger Book Report
One of the benefits of this activity is that the teacher can decide if they want students to add additional content by adding more condiments to their cheeseburger. Students can write in simple complete sentences, complex sentences, or point form.
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9. Text Clues
Making predictions, using text clues, and making inferences based on the given information in a text are lifelong skills that students must master. Having them create this visual craft will assist them in writing down their thoughts and allow them to be creative with their project designs.
Learn More: Raise The Bar Reading
10. Asking Good Questions
Having students answer questions about the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a story is a reading skill that needs to be developed. Having them create and design this craft will make sure they don’t forget to answer any of these important questions when asked.
11. Acronyms | Context Clues
Fourth graders absolutely love acronyms. To be honest, when I’m teaching I sometimes still reference acronyms I was taught in elementary school. Using the IDEAS acronym to teach context clues can help readers to decipher different meanings throughout passages.
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12. Close Readings
Close readings are essential to a classroom that’s trying to really use all of the different reading strategies. There are so many insightful and interesting reading passages available, meaning that your students will be excited about close readings.
Pro tip: These can be done collaboratively to enhance reading fluency and understanding.
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13. Reading Exit Tickets
Exit tickets are great because they can literally be tailored to almost anything you’re teaching. They also act as an informal assessment and being used as an exit to leave the classroom can be helpful in pushing kiddos to get them done.
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14. Think, Mark, Chart
Having a Think, Mark, Chart anchor chart in the classroom can be very beneficial to readers of all levels. Create this chart together at the beginning of the year and keep it up all year! If students have questions during reading, it’s important to redirect their attention back to the chart and explain you’ll go through the passage together after.
Pro tip: Make this into small sheets of paper that students can keep on their desks or in their reading notebooks.
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15. Summarizing
Summarizing is so important for developing strong readers. When summarizing, teachers are getting students to break down what they read into smaller, more comprehensible pieces. In some cases, students will begin to automatically do this as they read, making their comprehension abilities much stronger.
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16. Breaking Down Reading Standards
Reading comprehension activities aren’t only helpful to students, but also helpful to teachers. If you’re new to fourth grade, you’ve noticed the intensity that the reading standards hold. Making it more important to have a complete understanding of them before being able to teach reading successfully.
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17. Vocabulary Builder Flip Book
My students absolutely love making flip books! Hidden inside these coloring pages are vocabulary words, figurative language, or really any skill your heart desires that students will reference time and time again.
Pro tip: Have students create their very own flipbooks with this video.
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18. Main Idea and Details
Introduce or remind students about the main idea and details with this super simple web activity. Students will be hooked on how easy it is to decipher between the main ideas and the details and excited for whatever lesson you have planned next!
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19. Reading Levels
In grade 4, reading levels vary across the board. In some cases, readers are very advanced and above reading level, while on the other hand, some readers are quite far below the average fourth-grade reading level. Making sure that students know and understand their levels will help the child with comprehension.
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20. Strategy Mini Books
Teaching and helping students to integrate core comprehension skills into their daily reading should be top of the list. Using these little mini books that are filled with comprehension strategies, will help students to have a reference point when they are stuck or unsure. Not only fostering daily comprehension, but also independence.
21. Create a Story Map
Creating a story map will literally provide students with a visual of the story elements. This visual will help students to build background knowledge that is an essential tool in retelling the story.
Learn More: Two Apples a Day
22. What is Reading?
Across grade levels, it is essential that students fully understand what the purpose of reading is. At the 4th-grade level, students are beginning to pertain a deeper understanding of what they’re learning. An activity with this anchor chart can be a great way to really foster the total knowledge and understanding of reading.
Learn More: Teaching with Terhune
23. Jenga Story Retell
Turn Jenga into the perfect classroom version, good for a variety of subjects. Honestly, Jenga is one of the best games to integrate into your classroom. Whether you’re focusing on story retelling, vocabulary terms, spelling words, or comprehension topics, you can’t go wrong with this purchase.
Pro tip: Write the questions or tasks on a piece of paper and tape them to the blocks.
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24. Heads Up
If you’ve heard of Heads Up, then you can imagine why this would be so much fun for 4th graders. Get rid of that boring old vocabulary worksheet and allow students to learn through play! You can simply write the vocabulary words on an index card and have them hold the cards up to their heads while other students act it out!
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25. Comprehension Short Stories
Youtube short stories are great for developing so many different reading skills. One of the best parts of this comprehension activity is hearing different voices and accents. Varying accents and voices will help students to be able to work with different listening skills.
Learn More: Making English Fun
26. Sight Words
Sight words only get more difficult as students get older, but they never lose their importance. For effective reading comprehension, students should have strong fluency skills. Working on 4th grade sight words can help to build those. Whether you use this as a whole class activity or in small centers, it is sure to help students with their sight word fluency!
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27. 4th Grade Read Alouds
Are you looking for stories that are great for 4th grade? Maybe an entire playlist for that matter? Read Alouds are extremely important for blossoming readers. This comprehension bundle can be used to simply enhance fluency or paired with a comprehension worksheet.
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28. Making Connections
Making connections helps students to really delve deep and put meaning to the words they’re reading. This video will give students an overview of different strategies in order to make connections.
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29. Riddles
Riddles help students to think more in-depth about what they’re hearing or reading. Sometimes a simple Youtube video like this can spark kids to put on their thinking caps and be ready for a comprehension article or some graphic organizers.
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30. Create a Game Show!
Creating a game show or matching games through Wordwall can be a great way to motivate your kiddos to want to read and have a deeper understanding of what they read. Whether you allow students to create their own game shows are you create them, they’ll always look forward to it!
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31. Create a Comprehension Video Lesson
Creating a comprehension video lesson is super simple and could be very beneficial without your kids even knowing! You can use Edpuzzle to create a video, including any of your own or sourced material online, and add questions or prompts. The best part is, if your kids want to keep watching, they’ll need to answer the questions to move on!
32. Reading Comprehension Cubes
Instead of printable worksheets this year in your centers, try out reading comprehension cubes! Students will love the hands-on rolling of these dice and love working collaboratively even more! Either have students record their answers in notebooks or aloud to each other.
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33. Reading Response Options
Providing students with a variety of different response options is defiantly a go-to comprehension activity. This not only provides students with choices but also helps them to be more confident in effective reading comprehension.
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34. Book Club
Book clubs provide students with a place to hold discussions and comfortably ask and answer questions about a book they’re reading! Providing students with book club talking points can help students to ask important comprehension questions collaboratively.
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35. Create Poetry Books
Poetry is a way to teach comprehension through short and often complex sentences. These sentences help students to build awareness around the many meanings found. A poetry book can go along with your poetry unit in fourth grade! Students will love decorating and creating these masterpieces.
36. Inference Detectives
Becoming inference detectives is a great way to help students learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions! These activities are packed with so much fun and students will absolutely love solving them. Don’t worry they all come equipped with an answer key to help save teachers’ prep time!
37. Reading Quotes
A fourth-grade classroom is essential for reading comprehension and fluency. Having reading quotes around the room is one of the best ways to incline to students build a love for reading. One fun activity that my students love is creating posters of reading quotes! If we have some free time, I allow reading groups to choose a quote and create a poster.
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38. For the Love of Reading
Giving students different devices that will motivate them to read is a great way to really spice up their comprehension and fluency. These punch cards are super simple and can be so motivating to students and parents.
Final Thoughts
Having tools for students to access will allow them to visualize and better understand the story or book they are working with in your class. You can either create these resources yourself and make one copy of your entire class to use or you can have students work with their hands to design their own copy of these crafts that they can always keep with them to refer back to when you tell them to or when they feel they need to.
Giving your students the opportunity to access these supports will build them for success and give them ownership of their learning.
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