Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 4

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage fourth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include eight fiction genres, reading selections and dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing prompt activities.

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.