4th Grade CCSS: Reading: Informational Text

For fourth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, fourth graders will be asked to: explain what a text says, draw inferences from it, and refer to key details of the text, state the main idea of the text and how the details support it, describe the overall structure of events or information in a text, understand and differentiate between first- and second-hand accounts of the same events in a text, use and understand visual elements in a text like diagrams, time lines, or digitally interactive elements, synthesize information from two texts on the same topic, read informational texts at grade band level, increasing in complexity throughout the year.