4th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages

Reading Passages, Questions & Answers - Fourth Grade

Below you’ll find 4th grade reading comprehension passages along with questions and answers and vocabulary activities. These printable, 4th grade reading exercises are great for students who need comprehension skills improvement and general practice.

Hans and Gretel Find a Friend

This is the story of a Dutch boy, Hans Brinker, and his family. The family is very poor. Hans and his sister, Gretel, are excellent ice skaters. They want to take part in a race to win silver skates, but their homemade wooden skates aren’t good enough for them to…

The Golden Age

Jupiter and his Mighty Folk had not always dwelt amid the clouds on the mountain top. In times long past, a wonderful family called Titans had lived there and had ruled over all the world. There were twelve of them-six brothers and six sisters-and they said that their father was…

The Pool of Tears

Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. The story is about a girl who has some amazing adventures when she follows a white rabbit down a hole to a very different world. Alice has trouble staying her normal size. Sometimes she grows very large. Other times, as in…

Goldi’s Locks

The little girl with the blonde curls ran as fast as she could away from the small cottage. The three bears stood in the doorway of their home and roared at her until she was finally out of sight. What a terrible person they thought she was, breaking into their…

Peter’s Coal-Mine

This is from a story of an English family with three children named Peter, Phyllis, and Roberta. The mother and children move to a house near a railway, or railroad track, after the father has been put in prison. In this passage, the children and their mother have just arrived…

Aunt March Settles the Question

The four March sisters in Little Women are growing up. The eldest, Meg, has feelings for Mr. Brooke, the tutor who works next door for the Laurence family. However, she’s not ready to announce these feelings, so when Mr. Brooke declares his love, she tells him she is not interested.…

The Mermaids’ Lagoon

In the book Peter Pan, the English children Wendy, Michael, and John have gone with Peter, an amazing boy who can fly, to his magical world called Neverland. Below is a description of the lagoon in Neverland where the mermaids live. ————————————-  The children often spent long summer days on…

Heartache

In Little Women, the March sisters have grown up and are now young women. Jo has been away in New York City, but has returned home. Laurie, the boy next door, has grown into manhood, and has just graduated from college. Jo has met Laurie as he returns home. He…

The Mystery Mammal

Every week someone in my class gets a turn at solving a problem. It’s always something different. I’m excited because today it’s my turn! My teacher clapped his hands to get the class’s attention. “We have been studying different kinds of animals, so this week’s problem will focus on one…

Fortuna’s Horn

It was late autumn when the trees shed their multi-colored leaves, creating a jeweled patchwork carpet on the forest floor. All the plants had finished producing their flowers and fruits, and most of the woodland creatures had smartly stashed their food and nuts away for the impending winter. The forest…