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