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Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 4
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
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.
This revised edition replaces Reading Information Text and includes updates to the content. There are 10 texts with activities that include science, social studies, geography, biography, and technology with one to three lessons in each unit.
To give you an idea of topics, content area, and text structure, here are the lessons for the Grade 3 book: Big, Wild Cats! (Life Science, Compare/Contrast); Sandra Day O'Connor (Biography - Political Science, Time Order); Barack Obama (Biography - Political Science, Time Order); Plants of the Rainforest (Life Science, Main Idea/Details); The Great Lakes (Geography, Cause/Effect); Two Climates (Earth Science, Compare/Contrast); It's a Grand Old Flag (Social Studies - Sociology, Main Idea/Details); Mystery of Mesa Verde (Social Studies - U.S. History, Time Order); About Banks (Social Studies - Economics, Question/Answer); and The Zipper (Social Studies - Sociology, Cause/Effect).
The introductory information in these books include an orientation to the units, vocabulary words and definitions, an overview of articles and writing prompts, and reproducible pre-writing charts showing the Five Elements and the Five Structures of Information Text. In Grades 1 & 2, there is a student record sheet and small group record sheet. Each unit includes two pages of teacher information (objectives, preparation, and lesson plans) plus student pages with a complete answer key provided in the back of the workbook. Student pages include:
- Content Area Article (two pages with illustrations)
- Dictionary Page - defines content and academic words (Picture dictionary in Grade 1 & 2)
- Identify Information - close reading activity (annotating the text article)
- Answer Questions - reading comprehension (multiple choice and whole sentence)
- Apply Vocabulary - choosing words to complete sentences.
- Text Structure - examines how information is organized.
- Write About It - text-based writing assignment.
This well-done series provides quality reading comprehension and writing preparation. Photocopying the pages in this book is permitted for single classroom use only. Making photocopies for additional classes or schools is prohibited. Softcover, 118 perforated pages. ~Amber
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Evan-Moor |
Grade: | 4 |
ISBN: | 9781645143376 |
EAN/UPC: | 023472032645 |
Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
Height in Inches: | 0.3125 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.85 |