Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4

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.