Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4 Teacher Resource

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

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Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 12/01/2023
Series: Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.84h x 8.42w x 0.09d
ISBN: 9781645143376