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.
