4th grade sub plans: reading

A 4th grade reading block for a substitute: “The Lemonade Stand”, a 216-word fiction passage about friendship and money, with 5 questions and an answer key. 4 steps, from handing it out to going over the answers.

Checked October 30, 2026. Made from Peabody Teach's own passages, worksheets and brain break cards.

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The reading block

8:30–9:40Reading: The Lemonade Stand

Hand out “The Lemonade Stand”, a fiction passage of 216 words. Print 24: the student copy is in this packet.
Students read it on their own. Anyone who finishes reads it a second time and underlines the sentence they think matters most.
Students answer the 5 questions under the passage, in full sentences.
With five minutes left, go over two questions out loud. The answers are on the key page: keep it with you.

📄 The Lemonade Stand (passage and key)

The sheets, on their own pages

The Lemonade Stand: the passage, questions and answer key

Subbing 4th grade

Fourth graders can run a lot of their own routines if you let them, and partners and table groups work well. The math often reaches long division and fractions this year, so the plan keeps math to facts and practice they already know.

Give the class a job to run: handing out papers, the timer, the lunch count.
Let partners check answers against each other before you go over the key.
Collect every paper in one pile per block, labeled, for the teacher.

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