Reading practice
Grade 4 reading comprehension
Read a passage, answer the questions, and see why each answer is right. Your Grade 4 reading score climbs with every passage.
Skills practised: Author's purpose · Cause and effect · Character feelings · Compare and contrast · Data · Details · Evidence · Figurative language · Inference · Main idea · Read a schedule · Read a table · Read a timeline · Sequence · Text features · Text structure · Theme · Timeline math · Vocabulary
Stories
- The Broken KiteTheme, Character feelings, Cause and effect
Nonfiction
- The Frog That FreezesMain idea, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- How the Polar Bear SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Emperor Penguin SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Fennec Fox SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Monarch Butterfly SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Giant Panda SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Koala SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Hummingbird SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Komodo Dragon SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Chameleon SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Octopus SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Kangaroo SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Gorilla SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Salmon SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Giraffe SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Walrus SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Kiwi SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Bengal Tiger SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Moose SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- How the Platypus SurvivesDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Venus: the Second PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- Saturn: the Sixth PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- Your SkeletonMain idea, Details, Vocabulary
- Your Digestive SystemMain idea, Details, Vocabulary
Compare two texts
- Two Ways to Survive: the Polar Bear and the Emperor PenguinCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Roadrunner and the ScorpionCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Great White Shark and the OctopusCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Giant Panda and the KoalaCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Salmon and the PlatypusCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
Read a table
- Animal Fact Table 1Read a table, Text features
- Animal Fact Table 4Read a table, Text features
- Animal Fact Table 7Read a table, Text features
- Planet Fact Table 1Read a table, Text features, Inference
- How Students Get to SchoolRead a table, Data, Text features
- Five-Day Forecast: TorontoRead a table, Data, Inference
- Five-Day Forecast: LondonRead a table, Data, Inference
- Five-Day Forecast: AucklandRead a table, Data, Inference
- Countries of North America 1Read a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of Europe 2Read a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of South America 1Read a table, Data, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 1Read a table, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 3Read a table, Text features
- US States and Their Capitals 5Read a table, Text features
- Provinces of Canada and Their Capitals 1Read a table, Text features
Read a timeline
- Timeline: George Washington CarverRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Katherine JohnsonRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Wangari MaathaiRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Kalpana ChawlaRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Allan CormackRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
Timetable
- Bus Timetable 2Read a schedule, Inference, Text features
- Bus Timetable 6Read a schedule, Inference, Text features
How-to
- How to Wash Your HandsSequence, Cause and effect, Details
- How to Make a Fruit SaladSequence, Cause and effect, Details