How Volcanoes Form: Grade 4 Reading Passage

About this worksheet

A fourth grade earth science passage about magma, moving plates, the Ring of Fire, Mount St. Helens and how volcanoes build new land. A free printable 4th grade nonfiction passage (186 words) with multiple-choice what/why questions, true-or-false sentences, a vocabulary match and a short written answer. Answer key on page 2. Fourth graders can read it on their own and back up each answer with a sentence from the text.

Tips for using it

• Before reading, look at the picture and the title together and guess what the passage will be about.
• Ask your child to underline the sentence in the passage that proves each answer.
• Talk about the story afterwards: what was the problem, how was it solved, and what would your child have done?

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.