Animal Fact Table 4: Grade 4 Reading Comprehension

The table below gives facts about 4 animals. Read each row to learn about one animal, and read down a column to compare them.

Animal facts
Animal	Home	Size	Food
Monarch butterfly	Fields and meadows	about 10 centimeters from wingtip to wingtip	Flower nectar and milkweed leaves
Salmon	Oceans and the rivers that flow into them	about 70 centimeters long for many kinds	Insects and shrimp
Polar bear	Frozen Arctic	up to 3 meters long	Seals and fish
Sea otter	Cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean	about 1.2 meters long	Sea urchins and crabs

Questions

Read a table Which animal in the table eats insects?
the sea otter the monarch butterfly the polar bear the salmon
Read a table How big is the monarch butterfly, according to the table?
about 70 centimeters long for many kinds up to 3 meters long about 1.2 meters long about 10 centimeters from wingtip to wingtip
Read a table Which animal in the table is the largest?
the polar bear the salmon the monarch butterfly the sea otter
Text features What does the column "Food" tell you?
where each animal lives how big each animal is how fast each animal moves what each animal eats
Read a table Which animal in the table eats seals?
the polar bear the sea otter the salmon the monarch butterfly
Read a table According to the table, where does the monarch butterfly live?
Oceans and the rivers that flow into them Fields and meadows Frozen Arctic Cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean
Text features What is the best way to compare the sizes of all the animals?
read the title again count the rows read down the Size column read across the first row only
Read a table Which row would you read to find out where the sea otter lives?
the row that starts with "Salmon" the row that starts with "Monarch butterfly" the row that starts with "Polar bear" the row that starts with "Sea otter"

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