Animal Fact Table 7: 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
Beaver	Rivers	about 1 meter long	Tree bark and twigs
Great white shark	Cool coastal waters in oceans around the world	up to 6 meters long	Seals and sea lions
Chameleon	Warm forests in Africa and Madagascar	from 2 centimeters to about 70 centimeters long	Crickets and grasshoppers
Humpback whale	Oceans all around the world	up to 16 meters long	Krill and small fish

Questions

Read a table Which animal in the table eats seals?
the humpback whale the great white shark the beaver the chameleon
Read a table How big is the chameleon, according to the table?
from 2 centimeters to about 70 centimeters long about 1 meter long up to 16 meters long up to 6 meters long
Text features What does the column "Food" tell you?
how fast each animal moves how big each animal is what each animal eats where each animal lives
Read a table Which animal in the table eats crickets?
the humpback whale the great white shark the beaver the chameleon
Read a table According to the table, where does the beaver live?
Cool coastal waters in oceans around the world Warm forests in Africa and Madagascar Rivers Oceans all around the world
Text features What is the best way to compare the sizes of all the animals?
count the rows read the title again read down the Size column read across the first row only
Read a table Which row would you read to find out where the great white shark lives?
the row that starts with "Humpback whale" the row that starts with "Chameleon" the row that starts with "Beaver" the row that starts with "Great white shark"

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