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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