Teamwork Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 4

About this resource

Zeynep’s group has one week to make a skit for the school show, and four people with four favorite ideas. These teamwork reading comprehension passages give Grade 4 readers ten texts at F&P levels Q–S about what makes shared work succeed in pairs, crews and committees. Relationship Skills and SEL reading comprehension come together in one upper elementary set.

What students practice

• Blending everyone’s ideas into one plan
• Dividing a big project fairly
• Valuing every role, not just the fun ones
• Supporting a group decision that didn’t go their way
• Understanding the stages a new team goes through

What’s inside

• 10 passages at F&P levels Q–S, covering ten kinds of writing
• 5 multiple-choice questions for each passage
• 2 open-ended prompts per passage that bring the ideas into students’ own group work
• A brief takeaway after every passage
• Multiple-choice answer key on the last page
• 44 pages

A look inside

• How Humpback Whales Hunt With Bubble Nets: some whales blow rings of bubbles while others call, trapping fish together.
• Too Many Leaders on the Float Team: three students all want to be in charge of a parade float.
• The Go-Kart and Its Many Parts: a go-kart tells how one boy only wanted to drive, until he saw that every job made it roll.
• The Day My Idea Lost the Vote: Tamsin feels disappointed, then chooses to help make the winning idea great.

How to use these teamwork reading passages in Grade 4

• Guided groups, moving from “The Skit Deadline” at level Q to the level S texts
• A literacy station with “How to Split a Big Project Fairly” and its answer key
• Partner time, comparing ideas from “Working in Pairs vs. Working in Groups”
• A quick lead-in on a day students will build something side by side, using “How New Teams Grow Together”

Grade fit

Fourth graders spend much of the day planning and building beside other people. These reading passages with questions reflect that, from a schoolyard cleanup crew to a hockey player who would rather pass than shoot, at Q–S levels that suit confident upper elementary readers.

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

For decision practice on the same theme, try Teamwork What Would You Do? Cards.