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Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Practice reading comprehension with this free, printable 4th grade worksheet. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4), covering objectives such as: determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Poetry vs. Drama: Structural Elements

Poetry vs. Drama: Structural Elements

A Venn diagram where 4th grade students contrast the structural elements of poems and dramas. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4.5), covering objectives such as: explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, referring to structural elements like verse, rhythm, and meter. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Character Analysis with Text Details

Character Analysis with Text Details

A mind map that helps 4th grade students gather text details about a character's thoughts, words, and actions. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4.3), covering objectives such as: describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story, drawing on specific details in the text. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Determine the Theme and Summarize

Determine the Theme and Summarize

A reading passage with questions that move 4th grade students from details to theme to summary. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4.2), covering objectives such as: determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

First Person or Third Person? Narration Sort

First Person or Third Person? Narration Sort

A sorting worksheet where 4th grade students classify story excerpts as first- or third-person narration. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4.6), covering objectives such as: compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Reading Literature Assessment

Reading Literature Assessment

A unit assessment covering theme, summary, and character analysis for 4th grade readers. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.4.2), covering objectives such as: determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Writing

Writing

Writing

This 4th grade writing worksheet is ready to print and use in class. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4), covering objectives such as: write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Storyboard Your Narrative

Storyboard Your Narrative

A storyboard planner where 4th grade students map a narrative's events before drafting. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4.3.a), covering objectives such as: orient the reader by establishing a situation and organizing an event sequence that unfolds naturally. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Story Leads and Hooks Quick Writes

Story Leads and Hooks Quick Writes

Warm-up quick writes that get 4th grade students experimenting with story leads and hooks. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4.3.a), covering objectives such as: orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Informative Writing: Facts, Details, and Quotations

Informative Writing: Facts, Details, and Quotations

Structured paragraph practice on developing a topic with facts, details, and quotations. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4.2), covering objectives such as: write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Opinion Writing Sentence Frames

Opinion Writing Sentence Frames

Sentence frames that show 4th grade students how to link opinions and reasons smoothly. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4.1.c), covering objectives such as: link opinion and reasons using words and phrases like for instance and in addition. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Narrative Writing with Dialogue and Description

Narrative Writing with Dialogue and Description

A writing prompt pushing 4th grade students to develop events through dialogue and description. Aligned to the Common Core (W.4.3.b), covering objectives such as: use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Grammar and Language

Grammar and Language

Grammar and Language

Help your 4th grade students strengthen grammar and language skills with this editable worksheet. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4), covering objectives such as: use relative pronouns and relative adverbs. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai to adapt this for your class.

Punctuating Dialogue and Compound Sentences

Punctuating Dialogue and Compound Sentences

A take-home worksheet on punctuating direct speech and compound sentences correctly. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.2.b), covering objectives such as: use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs Fill-In

Relative Pronouns and Relative Adverbs Fill-In

A fill-in-the-blank worksheet drilling relative pronouns and relative adverbs in real sentences. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.1.a), covering objectives such as: use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why). Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Modal Auxiliaries Exit Ticket

Modal Auxiliaries Exit Ticket

An exit ticket checking whether 4th grade students can use can, may, and must precisely. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.1.c), covering objectives such as: use modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Fragment, Run-On, or Complete Sentence?

Fragment, Run-On, or Complete Sentence?

A sorting worksheet where 4th grade students classify word groups as fragments, run-ons, or complete sentences. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.1.f), covering objectives such as: produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

A Common Core-aligned 4th grade worksheet covering vocabulary (L.4), including objectives such as: use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customize.

Academic Vocabulary Word Scramble

Academic Vocabulary Word Scramble

A word scramble built from the precise academic vocabulary 4th grade students meet across subjects. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.6), covering objectives such as: acquire and use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Context Clues in Paragraphs

Context Clues in Paragraphs

Fill-in-the-blank paragraphs where 4th grade students use definitions and restatements as context clues. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.4.a), covering objectives such as: use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Greek and Latin Roots Practice

Greek and Latin Roots Practice

Vocabulary practice unlocking word meanings through roots like graph, photo, and auto. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.4.b), covering objectives such as: use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs Match

Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs Match

A matching activity pairing common idioms, adages, and proverbs with their meanings. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.5.b), covering objectives such as: recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Synonyms and Antonyms Crossword

Synonyms and Antonyms Crossword

A crossword puzzle where clues send 4th grade students hunting for synonyms and antonyms. Aligned to the Common Core (L.4.5.c), covering objectives such as: demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites and to words with similar meanings. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Informational Text

Informational Text

Informational Text

Build confidence in informational text with this printable 4th grade resource. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4), covering objectives such as: explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Built with Chalkie.ai. Free to edit, print, and share.

Author's Reasons and Evidence Check

Author's Reasons and Evidence Check

Quick-check questions asking 4th grade students how an author backs up each point. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4.8), covering objectives such as: explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Reading Charts, Timelines, and Diagrams

Reading Charts, Timelines, and Diagrams

A labeling activity where 4th grade students pull information from charts, timelines, and diagrams. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4.7), covering objectives such as: interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively and explain how it contributes to understanding a text. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Text Structure Sort

Text Structure Sort

A sorting worksheet where 4th grade students classify passages as chronology, comparison, cause/effect, or problem/solution. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4.5), covering objectives such as: describe the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Combine Information from Two Texts

Combine Information from Two Texts

A mind map for merging what 4th grade students learn from two texts on the same topic. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4.9), covering objectives such as: integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Explain What Happened and Why: History Passages

Explain What Happened and Why: History Passages

History passages with questions that ask 4th grade students to explain what happened and why. Aligned to the Common Core (RI.4.3), covering objectives such as: explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

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Theme, evidence, and text structure move to the center of ELA in fourth grade. These 4th grade ELA worksheets cover reading literature (RL.4), informational text (RI.4), writing (W.4), grammar and language (L.4), and vocabulary, all aligned to the 4th grade Common Core standards.

Students determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, explain events and concepts in historical, scientific, and technical texts, and write opinion pieces supported with reasons and information. Language pages target relative pronouns and relative adverbs, and vocabulary sheets sharpen the use of context as a clue to a word's meaning.

Teachers assign these as reading responses, weekly homework, and independent work during conferring. Because the passages and questions are fully editable in Chalkie, you can regenerate a worksheet around the novel your class is reading or a topic from your science units. Viewing and downloading are free; editing takes a free signup with no credit card.

What 4th Grade ELA covers

  • Reading Comprehension

    RL.4 literature: determining the theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text.

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  • Writing

    W.4 composition: writing opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

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  • Grammar and Language

    L.4 conventions: using relative pronouns and relative adverbs correctly in writing and speech.

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  • Vocabulary

    L.4 vocabulary: using context as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word or phrase.

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  • Informational Text

    RI.4 informational reading: explaining events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in historical, scientific, or technical texts.

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