Growth Mindset Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 4
Not good at it… yet. These growth mindset reading comprehension passages give Grade 4 readers ten texts at F&P levels Q–S, with Einstein, Wilma Rudolph and Simone Biles among them.
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About this resource
Not good at it… yet. These growth mindset reading comprehension passages give Grade 4 readers ten texts at F&P levels Q–S, with Einstein, Wilma Rudolph and Simone Biles among them. The set builds Self-Awareness, one of the five CASEL competencies, and gives fourth graders the neuroscience behind persistence.
What students practice
- Applying growth mindset to daily classroom life
- Using four strategies to stay with something hard
- Seeing that the brain activates when you struggle
- Treating setbacks as part of learning
- Using “yet” to build skill step by step
What’s inside
- 10 passages at F&P levels Q–S, in text types such as how-to guides, science pieces and student profiles
- 5 multiple-choice questions per passage
- 2 open-ended questions per passage for written answers or discussion
- Answer key covering all 50 growth mindset multiple-choice questions
- 34 pages, with an overview page of levels, text types and SEL focus
A look inside
- The Growth Mindset of Albert Einstein: his academic struggles and the persistence that changed everything.
- Why Coral Reefs Take Years to Form: reefs form one layer at a time, like building skill.
- Meet Wilma Rudolph: from childhood illness to Olympic gold through determination.
- How the Wright Brothers Learned to Fly: failing many, many times before they flew.
- What If You’re Not Good at It… Yet?: the power of “yet.”
How to use these growth mindset reading passages
- Literacy centers or small groups at levels Q–S
- Pair reading, then write a short note to a younger student about a hard task
- SEL reading comprehension: use How to Stay with Something Hard to talk about what helps when learning gets hard
- Homework with the full 50-question answer key
Grade fit
Written for Grade 4 readers, with levels from Q to S. These reading passages with questions suit a grade facing harder math and longer projects.
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.
Pairs well with
Follow the reading with Growth Mindset Worksheets — Multiple-Choice Scenarios for multiple-choice practice or Growth Mindset What Would You Do? Cards — Think, Choose, Act for think-choose-act discussion.
Questions teachers ask
Is there an answer key?
Yes. It covers all 50 multiple-choice questions, in the last pages of the 34-page PDF.
Do students need accounts for the digital version?
No. For the growth mindset passages you share one link, and students open it on any device with no login.
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