Content update: New on Khan Academy: Reading and Vocab courses for grades 4 and 5!

We’re ecstatic to introduce two brand-new English language arts courses: 4th Grade Reading & Vocab and 5th Grade Reading & Vocab. These mastery-enabled courses are packed with engaging practice, thoughtful strategy instruction, and high-interest reading materials designed to help students grow into confident, capable readers.

For students and families: Build your skills, explore great texts, and grow as a reader

Fun, flexible practice with short texts
Each course includes 155 to 160 short reading passages across 11 skills-based practice exercises. As you read, you’ll practice key comprehension skills like making inferences, identifying text structure, analyzing arguments, and more.

Read longer texts with purpose  to hone your skills and build stamina
Work your way up to longer reading passages. Each course includes 18 long-passage exercises drawn from exciting fiction and nonfiction. These texts help you apply what you’ve learned and get ready for state assessments.

Master the strategies strong readers use
You’ll learn nine key reading strategies, including visualizing, making predictions, using context clues, and activating background knowledge. Each strategy comes with an article that explains how it works, plus practice to help you build good reading habits.

Boost your vocabulary
Across three units per course, you’ll learn 24 high-frequency, high-utility vocabulary words, complete with definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences. Vocabulary articles, quizzes, and engaging videos help you lock in what you’ve learned.

Explore exciting unit themes
Each grade-level course includes themed units that combine fiction and nonfiction to build background knowledge across subjects.

Grade 4 units:

• Heroes and heroines
  
• Inventors and inventions
  
• The world outside
  
  

Grade 5 units:

• Life on the edge
  
• The stories we tell
  
• Our amazing universe
  
  

These courses help you grow as a reader while exploring topics that connect to your science, social studies, and literature classes.

For teachers: Rigorous, standards-aligned ELA resources made for real classrooms

Comprehensive instruction and practice
Each course offers 155 to 160 short texts with 11 standards-aligned exercises that support critical comprehension skills. You’ll also find engaging videos and articles that provide multiple access points for instruction and reinforcement.

Build reading stamina and test readiness
Students get repeated opportunities to apply their skills through 18 long-passage exercises, featuring texts drawn from contemporary novels, frequently taught classics, and high-interest nonfiction.

Support reading strategy instruction
Reading strategy articles are designed to help students internalize essential comprehension techniques that strong readers use automatically. To help you meet your goals, each article includes opportunities for students to apply strategies. 

Deepen content knowledge across the curriculum
These courses also support social studies, science, and cultural literacy through curated reading sets. Fiction selections include A Long Walk to Water, Space Case, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and My Side of the Mountain. Nonfiction selections are pulled from engaging titles like Packing for Mars for Kids, Five Epic Disasters, To the Moon!, and Black Inventors.

Vocabulary instruction that sticks
With 24 carefully chosen vocabulary words per course, students get repeated exposure to important academic language. Each word is introduced with clear definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences, and supported with videos and quizzes that reinforce knowledge across contexts.

Explore the new 4th and 5th Grade Reading & Vocab courses today and help students strengthen their reading, deepen their understanding, and develop the confidence to tackle any text.