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Grade 4 stories and exercises.

Use these stories and exercises to practice and improve reading comprehension at a grade 4 level.

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These grade 4 leveled stories are taken from our series of leveled reading workbooks ; the complexity of the texts and exercises increase with each successive level.

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Over twenty free grade 4 children's stories and comprehension worksheets.  Each passage is followed by comprehension questions.

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Each historical passage or fable is followed by questions including exercises related to prediction, inference and character traits.

Reading comprehension exercises for grade 4

These reading worksheets  focus on specific comprehension topics such as author's purpose, making inferences, understanding words through context clues, and distinguishing fact from opinion. 

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Reading Comprehension - Biographies

Inspire readers with these free printable stories about the lives of important people in culture and history. print the one-page reading passages for offline use or test comprehension with the online reading quizzes. recommended level: 3rd or 4th grade and up.

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A great way to teach about history and content-area topics, biographies highlight famous figures, inventors, scientists, civil rights leaders, sports legends, and heros. Many of these mini-books, plays, and passages feature question/response activities, biography worksheets, teaching guides, lesson ideas, and graphic organizers.

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Roald Dahl Biography – With Comprehension Questions

Learn about the life of popular author Roald Dahl with our differentiated biographies.

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Grow your students knowledge of Influential Inventors and Scientists of History and Today with these Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages. These reading passages are wonderful for your students to study these influential leaders including Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Betty Holberton and more.

Included you will find reading practice passages perfect for: warm-up, bell work, homework, or weekly assessments. Students can use independently in literacy groups or in small guided reading groups. There are different options provided in this packet: multiple choice, written response or graphic organizers to focus on individual skill.

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