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Free 4th Grade Informative Writing Worksheets

3 free informative writing resources for 4th Grade: 3 worksheets. Answers included.

Reports, explanations and procedures. In 4th Grade, In 4th grade students multiply larger numbers, divide with remainders, explore equivalent fractions, decimals to hundredths, angles and area.

Students will practice: identifying text features and their purposes; writing headings that tell what a section is about; writing captions for pictures and diagrams; writing glossary entries for key vocabulary; using text features in an informational article; identifying the parts of a procedure; starting each step with a command verb; putting steps in a logical order.

Recommended learning path

  1. 1Text Features in Informational Writing: Headings, Captions, and Diagrams
  2. 2Writing a Procedure: How-To Instructions
  3. 3Information Reports: Facts, Subheadings and Topic Sentences

Worksheets

Printable practice with an answer sheet.

  • Worksheet

    Text Features in Informational Writing: Headings, Captions, and Diagrams

    A 4th grade informative writing worksheet about text features. Students read a short informational article about monarch butterfly…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    30 min
    Questions
    10 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Writing a Procedure: How-To Instructions

    Students learn how a procedure tells the reader how to do or make something. They read a model procedure for growing a bean plant and find…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    30 min
    Questions
    17 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Information Reports: Facts, Subheadings and Topic Sentences

    Students learn three building blocks of an information report using facts about octopuses. They tell facts from opinions, sort facts under…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    30 min
    Questions
    20 questions
    Answers
    Answers included

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Common questions

What do 4th Grade students learn about informative writing?

Reports, explanations and procedures. At 4th Grade, our resources focus on: identifying text features and their purposes; writing headings that tell what a section is about; writing captions for pictures and diagrams; writing glossary entries for key vocabulary.

Where should we start?

Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.

Are answers included?

Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.

How to use these resources

  1. Spend five minutes planning before writing.
  2. Use the success criteria as a checklist when editing.
  3. Compare the model opening with your child's opening — what makes each one work?

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