4th Grade Reading Resources : Page 14

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.