Bring summer excitement into your literacy lessons with The Secret at Sunnybrook Farm, a fun reading-comprehension mystery featuring all 25 words from Fry’s Fourth 100 High-Frequency Words List 4.
 
In this engaging story, Maya and Leo spend part of their summer vacation on their grandparents’ farm. When Grandpa gives them an old map, the cousins follow a series of clues through a wooden shed, across a field, and into a garden filled with towering sunflowers. Along the way, they discover that the most meaningful treasures are not always made of gold.
 
This printable packet combines sight-word practice, reading comprehension, word recognition, and puzzle-solving in one convenient resource. Students can complete the pages together as an independent work packet, or teachers can distribute individual activities separately.
 
This seven-page printable resource includes:
Cover page with a student name line and checklist of the 25 target words
Fourth-grade summer reading passage: The Secret at Sunnybrook Farm
Three multiple-choice reading-comprehension questions
Two short-answer questions
Find-and-circle activity using the target words from the passage
Word-search puzzle featuring all 25 high-frequency words
Complete reading-comprehension and activity answer keys
 
Target words:
farm, pulled, draw, voice, seen, cold, cried, plan, notice, south, sing, war, ground, fall, king, town, I’ll, unit, figure, certain, field, travel, wood, fire, upon
 
This resource is ideal for:
Fourth-grade reading practice
Fry sight-word review
Independent literacy work
Reading centers
Morning work
Homework
Early finishers
Substitute-teacher plans
End-of-year review
Summer school or summer learning
 
The packet can be printed double-sided to create a compact independent-work resource or printed single-sided so the activities can be assigned separately.
 
Complete your seasonal Fry Fourth 100 reading collection with this summer-themed companion to the Fall, Winter, and Spring activity packets!