Reading Comprehension Weekly Warm-ups - Grades 4-5 - Print and Digital Resources

Increase your students' reading comprehension and language proficiency with these weekly close reading passages, questions, and activities. Combining the science of reading research with practical exercises boosts student performance. Easy print and use format. Printable PDF, digital Google Slides™, and some Easel versions included.

KEY BENEFITS

• Enhance Reading Skills: Utilize science-based reading research to improve comprehension and language proficiency through close reading, cloze reading, and synonym exercises.
• Engaging Content for Every Week: Features high-interest reading passages with thought-provoking questions, designed to captivate students' attention and stimulate their critical thinking abilities.
• Print & Digital Formats: Offers flexible learning options with printable PDFs, Google Slides™, and Easel versions, perfect for classroom and distance learning environments.
• Aligned with Educational Standards: Each of the 36 worksheets aligns with standards, ensuring that activities are relevant and effective for 4th and 5th grade skill levels.
• Diverse Reading Materials: Includes a rich variety of fiction and nonfiction passages to cater to all student interests and to build diverse literacy skills.
• Comprehensive Skill Development: Activities focus on key comprehension strategies like cause and effect, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, and more, enabling students to master essential reading skills.
• Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for morning work, reading starters, homework, practice sessions, or literacy centers, providing consistent exposure to effective comprehension strategies throughout the school year.
• Ready-to-Use Resources: Easy-to-print pages in color or grayscale ensure high-quality materials are always at hand, with full answer keys included for seamless teaching.
• Homeschool & Summer Learning: An excellent resource for homeschooling families or as a summer reading enhancement, easily integrable into existing lesson plans.
• Quick Assessment Tool: Doubles as an efficient comprehension assessment tool for educators to monitor the progress of their 4th and 5th grade students.

RELATED RESOURCES

Comprehension Weekly Warm-Ups is also available for grades 2 and 3. Click on the link below for more information regarding that version.

Comprehension Weekly Warm-Ups Grades 2-3

Comprehension Weekly Warm-Ups BUNDLE Grades 2-5

Other effective and motivating comprehension resources are available through Rick's Resources as follows:

Heroes of History Reading Comprehension

Color-Code Comprehension

Myths and Legends Reading Comprehension

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rick Whitehead has been a teacher and author for over 30 years in public and private practice. His background includes teaching in public schools, curriculum development, school program design, private mentoring and author of juvenile fiction. He is devoted to helping children learn and grow by providing high-quality resources that are highly motivating and effective even for the most reluctant learners.