Reading Informational Text, Grade 4 Teacher Resource

Provide your fourth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support standards-based learning paths.

The informational texts cover 4th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:

• dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
• close reading activity
• reading comprehension activity
• vocabulary activity
• text structure activity

The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.
• Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

The informational texts and structures cover:

Science Articles: Getting to Know Snakes (Question and Answer); Weather and the Scientists Who Study It (Main Idea and Details); From Power Plant to Light Bulb (Time Order)

Geography Article: The Mystery of the Matching Continents (Cause and Effect)

Social Studies Articles: Being an Active Citizen (Main Idea and Details); How Countries Create Their Economies (Compare and Contrast)

Biography Articles: Julia Morgan: Architect and Trailblazer (Time Order); Roald Dahl: Master Storyteller (Time Order)

How-to Articles: How to Keep Your Teeth and Gums Healthy (Cause and Effect); How to Make Snacks More Healthful (Compare and Contrast)

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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