4th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Week 1 Reading Comprehension (D-1). A reading passage and questions about how to find your absolute location on Earth. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 2 Reading Comprehension (D-2). Reading segment about ecosystems, organisms, and communities. Cross-Curricular Focus:Life Science.

Week 3 Reading Comprehension (D-3). A passage and questions about relatively rare shrubland communities called Chaparral ecosystems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 4 Reading Comprehension (D-4). A reading comprehension passage about the extremely cold ecosystems called Taiga ecosystems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 5 Reading Comprehension (D-5). A reading segment and questions about the tropical rainforest ecosystems near the equator. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 6 Reading Comprehension (D-6). Passage and questions about renewable and non-renewable natural resources. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 7 Reading Comprehension (D-7). A reading passage about the role of living things in an ecosystem. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 8 Reading Comprehension (D-8). A reading passage and questions about the role of camouflage in the predator-prey relationship. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 9 Reading Comprehension (D-9). A short passage about the history of the transcontinental railroad. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 10 Reading Comprehension (D-10). A reading segment about using estimation in mathematics. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Week 11 Reading Comprehension (D-11). A life science reading comprehension passage about endangered species. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 12 Reading Comprehension (D-12). A life science reading comprehension passage about bats. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Week 13 Reading Comprehension (D-13). A reading segment about how parentheses are used in solving math problems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Week 14 Reading Comprehension (D-14). An activity about glaciers and what they leave behind when the move. Cross-Curricular Focus: Earth Science.

Week 15 Reading Comprehension (D-15). Comprehension activity about the discrimination against gold rush immigrants in the 1850?s. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 16 Reading Comprehension (D-16). A short story and related questions about the world’s first geographer. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences / Mathematics

Week 17 Reading Comprehension (D-17). An activity about how ocean waves affected the rth American coastline. Cross-Curricular Focus: Earth Science.

Week 18 Reading Comprehension (D-18). A short segment about the formation of the public education system in the United States. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 19 Reading Comprehension (D-19). A passage about the origination of boomtowns during the gold rush in California. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Week 20 Reading Comprehension (D-20). A short passage about electricity, conductors, and static electricity. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.