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Decision-Making Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 4

Grade 4 · Responsible Decision‑Making · Reading Comprehension

Four cousins build a long cardboard-tube marble run across the living-room floor, but it jams every time.

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Grade: 4
What you get: 10 passages at F&P levels Q–S in ten text types44 pages
Type: Reading Comprehension
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Responsible Decision‑Making

About this resource

Four cousins build a long cardboard-tube marble run across the living-room floor, but it jams every time. These free decision-making reading comprehension passages give Grade 4 readers ten texts at F&P levels Q–S, one for each part of Responsible Decision-Making: careful, honest and fair choices, solving problems, owning mistakes, asking for guidance and acting for others. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Solving a group problem step by step
Being honest when a friend asks you to cover
Being responsible and respectful when a family shares one device
Choosing the fair start yourself even when the unfair one helps you
Knowing when friends’ tips aren’t enough and asking a skilled guide kindly
Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read

What’s inside

10passages at F&P levels Q–S in ten text types, including a concept explainer, a fable and a first-person reflection

5multiple-choice questions per passage

2open-ended questions per passage that call for written answers

44pages

Answer key for the multiple-choice questions

A look inside

The Marble Run That Kept JammingFour cousins build a long cardboard-tube marble run across the living-room floor, but it jams every time.

Covering or Caring?Tadhg’s friend asks him to tell her mom they worked the whole time, not that they played at the park.

Ferrand and the Leaf-Boat RaceFerrand the Fox notices the leaf-boat race start line sits where the stream runs fastest on her side.

Three Tips and a Tangled StringAt yo-yo club, Paloma’s three friends each give different advice on a new trick, and her string keeps tangling.

The Water Bowl by Our DoorMarguerite tells how she, her brother and Dad decided to fill a water bowl for passing dogs on hot days.

How to use these decision-making reading passages in Grade 4

Small reading groups at levels Q–S, working through the multiple-choice questions together

A short SEL lessonRead “Why Bread Is No Treat for Ducks” aloud and talk it through together

Independent practice or homework, checked later with the answer key

Written responseStudents answer the two open-ended questions after a passage such as “The Thump Behind the Music Room Wall”

Grade fit

Passages run from about 410 to 480 words, with enough detail for fourth graders to find evidence, compare characters and explain their thinking in writing. Levels climb from Q to S across the set.

Digital version

With the interactive digital version, you share one link and students read each passage and answer the questions on any device, with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.