4th Grade Reading Review

Reading Comprehension

100

This is what a passage is mostly about.

Main Idea

200

If you leave ice cream out in the sun, this will happen.

It will melt. 

300

First, you mix the ingredients. Then, you bake the cake. Finally, you let it cool.

Order of events/How to

400

The boy walked into the room with a big smile, pumping his fist in the air. You can infer that this happened.

He won something/he was excited

500

"Dogs are the best pets in the world!" This sentence is an ______.

Opinion

Vocabulary & Word Study

100

In the sentence, "The arid desert had little water,." the word arid most likely means...

Dry

200

A synonym for happy is...

Joyful/excited

300

An antonym for brave is...

cowardly

400

This word can mean both "a team competes against another" and "a small stick that can start a fire"

match

500

"The classroom was a zoo" is an example of this type of figurative language. 

Metaphor

Genres & Text Features

100

This genre of text gives real information and facts. 

nonfiction

200

This is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.

stanza

300

You can find the definition of a bolded word in this part of a nonfiction book.

glossary

400

This type of traditional story often includes magical elements, talking animals, and a moral lesson. 

Fairy Tale

500

When the narrator uses "I" and "me" in a story, it is written in this point of view.

First-person point of view

Grammar & Conventions

100

This part of speech describes/modifies a noun.

adjective

200

What belongs at the end of this sentence, "Where did you put your book

Question mark

300

What goes at the end of this sentence, "I was so excited we won

Exclamation mark

400

In the sentence, "She ___ to the store," the correct verb is "go" or "goes"

Goes

500

The correct pronoun in the sentence, "Sarah and ___ went to the park," is "I" or "me"

I

Reading Strategies

100

This is a brief statement that tells the most important parts of a passage in your own words.

Summary

200

If a passage is meant to inform, entertain, or persuade, it is identifying what

Author's Purpose

300

This type of organizational structure explains how two things are alike and different. 

Compare and contrast

400

After gathering clues from the text and using what you already know, you can do this to make an

inference

500

If you guess what might happen next in a story based on clues from the text, your doing this

making a prediction