Magnets Reading Comprehension Worksheets for Year 4

If you’re in the midst of teaching magnets to your Year 4 students, you’ll be looking for resources to assist you in teaching your students about how these handy little tools are used in everyday life.

This magnets reading comprehension worksheet does exactly that! Students will learn about the uses of magnets in society while also fine-tuning their decoding and comprehension skills. This one-page magnets reading comprehension addresses how magnets are used in the following contexts:

• Industrial machinery
• Hospitals
• Home appliances
• Jewellery 

After reading the text, students are then required to answer four comprehension questions based on the content of the text. The questions are all free-response questions.

The resource download includes:

• Reading passage
• Comprehension questions
• Answers

This magnets worksheet can be downloaded as a black-and-white PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Read on to explore how you can use this resource in multiple ways in your science lessons on the everyday uses of magnets! 

Multiple Uses for This Magnets Worksheet

This magnets worksheet can be used in various ways in your Year 4 science classroom. Here are some ideas you might like to consider:

1. Whole-Class Activity – Project the resource onto your interactive whiteboard and read through the text together. Students could then answer the questions as a class, in small groups or in pairs.
2. Homework Activity – Students could take this magnets reading comprehension home to complete for homework. This is a great way of letting parents and carers see what their child is learning about in the classroom. 
3. Formative Assessment – This magnets worksheet could be used as a formative assessment to monitor how well your students are grasping the concept of how magnets are used in everyday life.

Download to Access This Magnets Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Use the dropdown menu on the Download button above to access either the easy-print PDF  or the Google Slides version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it.)

As this file contains an answer sheet, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file, removing the answer sheet, then making copies for your students. 

Please consider printing this resource double-sided for sustainability purposes.

This resource was created by Kaitlyn Blevins, a Teach Starter collaborator.

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