Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 4

Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your fourth-grade students! Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Fairy tale


• Poetry


• Myth


• Folk tale


• Realistic fiction


• Comedy


• Fantasy


• Historical fiction

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective


• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations


• Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary


• Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities


• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion


• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity


• Writing prompt activity

Additional teacher resources:

• Comprehensive vocabulary definitions


• How to Be a Good Reader resource page for students


• Literary genres chart


• Literary elements and story structure chart


• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The illustrated reading selections in the grade 4 book are:

• Fairy Tale: Gordon and the Three Zookeepers, Level O


• Poetry: My Shadow, Level P


• Myth: Why Spiders Spin Webs, Level P


• Folk Tale: Why Br'er Lizard Can't Sit, Level Q


• Realistic Fiction: Expert Pet Sitters, Level R


• Comedy: Pigs Is Pigs, Level R


• Fantasy: The Whale's Throat, Level S


• Fantasy: Down the Rabbit Hole, Level S


• Historical Fiction: A Serious Argument, Level T

Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills! Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.