4th grade reading activities

How do you keep the engagement high during your upper elementary reading lessons? Over here, I love to use topple blocks to keep my fourth and fifth grade students SUPER motivated when it comes to inferencing, restating the question, finding the main idea, and more!

Unlock strategies for 4th and 5th grade small group reading. Explore different focuses and a six-step process to use.

This FREE reading response journal menu is a great tool for independent reading time, supporting comprehension skills, and keeping your students accountable during reading workshop. These reading response journal prompts are perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade.

Engage your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students with this fun FREE reading comprehension passage, worksheets, and printables packet! Download, print, and use the complete History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie unit right away for reading comprehension lessons, activities, strategies, and centers. Differentiated for even easier use across grade levels. Click the link to get your FREE download today!

Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...

Add some fun and simple ideas each Friday into your reading clas with Fun Friday Activities for Reading. You can easily encourage even your reluctant readers to read with Fun Friday. Find 10 simple and easy activities for your reading classroom.

Context Clues Activities! This blog post features a context clues lesson, anchor chart, and interactive notebook entry! The free printables are available for immediate use!

Looking for some fun 4th grade reading ideas? Reading is a gateway to endless adventures, and for fourth graders, it’s an important time to explore and find

Cause and Effect text evidence activity. Cause and effect reading passages and classroom activity. 2nd grade reading passages for elementary classroom. Nonfiction reading passages that show cause and effect relationships. Reading game for elementary classroom.

4th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

50 of the Best Books for 4th Grade. Looking for 4th grade books? Here are some of our favorites to teach in the classroom and to use for independent reading. #reading #fourthgrade #books

To prepare our students for college, our ELA reading standards require us to teach 50% literature (fiction) and 50% informational text (non-fiction) in 4th grade.

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

It's an end of year reading escape room extravaganza! As we say goodbye to another year, let's spice up the final days in the upper elementary classroom with

This blog post, Using Graphic Organizers for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies, details the importance of using graphic organizer templates for reading strategy instruction in the upper elementary classroom (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade). These include reading strategies like visualizing, making predictions, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.

Offering Choice in your Reading Response Activities | Top Teaching Tasks

Word work activities that work with any word list in 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade in elementary school. use these fun activities this year to grow student vocabulary and deepen word knowledge.

Here are the only three anchor charts you need to teach point of view in your elementary classroom! Simple and effective for best practices.

Guided reading questions for character, plot, making connections and reading strategies.