During self-selected reading, fourth graders select books which they can read on their independent level. As teachers conference with each student, book selection and comprehension are monitored to ensure each student is appropriately challenged. Children at the fourth grade level will read several novels this year. Better readers will read more complicated books. Fourth graders can read independently.
Fourth graders read for pleasure and for information.
They continue to build their vocabularies and increase the number of words that they recognize. They will find the meaning of some new words by looking the word up in a dictionary. They will use many skills to help them understand what they have read. Fourth graders react to what they have read. Fourth graders discuss and write reports about their feelings and reactions to what they have read.