4th Grade · Reading Comprehension
How the Ear Works
Free printable 4th Grade reading comprehension worksheet: How the Ear Works. It practices explaining a process (Common Core RI.4.3). For ages 9-10. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 4th Grade
- Subject
- Reading Comprehension
- Skill
- Explaining a process
- Ages
- 9–10
- Standard
- RI.4.3
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“How the Ear Works” is sheet 19 of 27 in our free 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets collection, written for children aged 9–10. It focuses on explaining a process, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” and before “The Stonecutter”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RI.4.3 · Common Core English Language Arts · Grade 4
Reading: Informational Text · Key ideas and details
Children work on describing how characters, events, ideas or steps connect and develop through a text.
More explaining a process worksheets
The other 4th Grade Reading Comprehension sheets on explaining a process, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Ask your child to underline evidence in the text before answering. Fourth grade answers should quote or point to the text.
- 2
For the poem and the play, read them aloud together. Structure is easier to notice when you hear it.
- 3
After each passage, ask for a one-sentence summary. It is the quickest check of understanding.
