Year 4 Non-Fiction Comprehension Worksheets

With these short fiction passages, your students will identify the problems and solutions.

This exercise gives your student practise identifying a main idea and supporting details in short texts.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Challenge your child's reading comprehension with a quiz page, all about the Day of the Dead (or Dia de los Muertos), an important Mexican holiday!

Help your third grader practise following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

With this helpful resource, your students will use a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Use this graphic organizer to help students identify and record the main idea and details of a text.

Why do we set off fireworks on the 4th of July? Find out all about the history of fireworks in this history worksheet.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Use this resource with your students to practise relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practise making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practise relationship between a series of events.

Use this resource with your students to practise connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.