4th Grade Descriptive Nonfiction Text Structure Reading Comprehension Passages
4.9 (17 reviews)Teaching descriptive nonfiction text structure doesn’t have to be overwhelming. This reading comprehension unit includes high-interest leveled passages, graphic organizers, keyword analyses, text-dependent reading response questions, and assessments. You will have everything you need to teach,…
- Grade
- Grade 4
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 56 Pages
- Answer key
- Included
- Teaching duration
- 2 Weeks
- Digital download
Description
Teaching descriptive nonfiction text structure doesn’t have to be overwhelming. This reading comprehension unit includes high-interest leveled passages, graphic organizers, keyword analyses, text-dependent reading response questions, and assessments. You will have everything you need to teach, reinforce, and assess descriptive text structure.
All components listed below are provided in print and digital versions.
3 Leveled Passages: High-interest and professionally written. Include nonfiction text features (Images, Diagrams, Infographics, Graphs, Charts, Illustrations, Tables, Maps, Captions, and Keywords)
3 Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers that are customized for each passage. Provide a visual representation of the text structure and passage, which helps with reading comprehension and writing skills.
3 Keyword Analyses: Students will find the specific cause-and-effect keywords and analyze how they are used in the articles. Keywords Analyses deepen student understanding of nonfiction text structures and help them build expository writing skills.
3 Reading Responses: 10 short-answer reading response questions for each passage. These text-dependent questions can be used for, Closed Reading, Guided Reading, Shared Reading, Independent Work, Writing/Journal Prompts
3 Assessments: Each passage comes with a 10-question multiple-choice assessment. Teachers can use these assessments at the end of each unit to direct further instruction.
What grade level is this resource designed for?
The passages in this resource are leveled between 780-870 Lexile. This Lexile range typically aligns with fourth-grade students reading near grade level. Teachers can use this resource with students in other grades if the Lexile level is appropriate. There are no grade-level labels or indicators on the student pages of this resource.
Other Fourth-Grade Nonfiction Text Structure Units:
- Cause and Effect
- Compare and Contrast
- Descriptive
- Order and Sequence (Chronological Order)
- Problem and Solution
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We are using this resource to help our student prepare for SBAC's and they are very helpful with summarizing. They also are useful for homework.
I wish I could get my money back. It repeats itself over and over. So many language concepts are left out. I wouldn't have purchased it if I knew that ahead of time.
We are sorry to hear this, Joanne. We do provide two weeks of material in the preview file so that teachers can assess if this resource will be a good fit. The repetition is part of the spiral review format, which helps students retain the concepts.
This does not connect with google slides or my classroom.
Upon opening this resource, I noticed that the resource itself varied from the preview that was presented. the topics are highly specific, and the pages require intricate cutting and gluing. However, instructions on how to do so to pass our to students or even for myself are not provided. Instead, there is a one sentence summary and small photo of what the completed page should look like. I am extremely unhappy with this purchase, and I wish I could return it. The amount of time needed to decipher, sort, and create instructions for each page makes this more trouble than if I had not bought it in the first place.
This resource is definitely not worth the cost. The pages are simply scanned in with a Google form as an add-on. The Google Form is not student-friendly. I wasted $20 and still have to create my own resources for students. I have never in all my years of purchasing from TpT been so disappointed in a product.
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Do you have this same product for 5th grade?
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Hello! Thanks for asking! 5th grade is in the works and should be done in about 3 weeks.




