15Free Grade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Nico likes the pool because he always knows what to expect, so when it is closed and his sister steers him to the new climbing wall, his stomach does a flip. He freezes halfway, takes the instructor's advice to look for the next hold instead of the floor, and rings the bell at the top.

Three friends get turned around in a six-acre corn maze until Jada notices the late sun on their backs and remembers the exit is on the west side. Five written questions, including one on cornstalks that towered over them like green-and-gold walls.

Oliver builds a Homework Machine from a cardboard box and a roll of silver tape, and his worksheet comes back with every problem answered. Mom notes that the machine thinks seven times eight equals pizza.

Pip the squirrel will not share his acorns with Clover the field mouse, then loses track of every one of them under the snow. Clover takes him in anyway, and in spring the forgotten acorns come up as oak trees.

A plain brown beetle named Lumi flies to the Moon to ask for light for her lost friends, and that is why fireflies glow. A Did You Know? box underneath gives the real reason, bioluminescence.

Four diary entries from a girl on the Oregon Trail in 1848: sore feet, the frightening crossing of the Platte River, Chimney Rock, and painting her name on Independence Rock.

The class hamster is missing, and a trail of sunflower seed shells leads Ava the would-be detective to the bookshelf. A cast list, a setting box and stage directions, with four parts to read aloud.

The Storm Comes Calling: the wind knocks at the door, clouds roll in like ships, thunder grumbles like a bear, and the storm tiptoes off leaving a rainbow. Questions on stanzas, rhyme, a simile and personification.

The first nonfiction passage. Frogs against toads on skin, legs, habitat and eggs, plus what they share, with a Venn diagram that wants at least two details in each part.

How caves form in limestone, how stalactites and stalagmites grow, and the animals that live in the dark. Three headings, a diagram to label and a question on which heading to look under.

How to build a rain gauge from a plastic bottle, pebbles, a ruler and tape, written as a real set of directions with a supply list and six numbered steps.

Why bread has holes: yeast, sugar, carbon dioxide and gluten that traps the bubbles like a net of tiny balloons. It ends by numbering four steps in order.

Sea otters use tools, have the thickest fur of any animal, were nearly hunted out, and keep kelp forests alive by eating sea urchins. The questions build to keystone species and the main idea.

Mary Anning hunted fossils on the cliffs of Lyme Regis after storms, dug out an ichthyosaur at about twelve, and was kept out of the Geological Society because she was a woman.

Sofia writes to her principal asking for a buddy bench, gives her reasons, and answers the cost objection with a bake sale. Children sort four sentences into fact or opinion and say whether they agree.