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
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