Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms - Comprehension
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Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms - Comprehension
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4th Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension skills using an informational text about hurricanes as the content vehicle. Designed for 4th grade students, the assessment evaluates students' ability to extract key information from nonfiction text, understand text structures, and interpret graphic features. Students need strong literal comprehension skills to identify main causes and scientific processes, analytical thinking to recognize cause-and-effect relationships in explanatory text, and visual literacy skills to understand how different graphic organizers support comprehension. The questions require students to distinguish between factual details about hurricane formation, identify appropriate text headings based on content, analyze how photographs enhance understanding, recognize text structure patterns, and evaluate the effectiveness of various graphic features like maps, diagrams, and satellite images in conveying specific types of information. Created by Miss Perez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 4. This comprehension quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing students' informational text reading skills while building their knowledge of weather science. Teachers can use this assessment as a formative evaluation after students read the hurricane article, as homework to reinforce reading strategies taught in class, or as review material before standardized testing. The quiz effectively supports classroom instruction by requiring students to demonstrate multiple comprehension strategies simultaneously - from basic recall of scientific facts to higher-order analysis of text features and author's craft. This assessment aligns with standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 for referring to details and examples when explaining text, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5 for describing text structure, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 for interpreting information from charts, graphs, diagrams, and other visual elements.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the MAIN cause of hurricanes?
low-pressure areas over cold oceans.
high-pressure areas over cold oceans.
low-pressure areas over warm oceans.
high-pressure areas over warm oceans.
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.3
CCSS.RI.4.3
CCSS.RI.5.3
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What causes the air in a hurricane to spiral?
the heat of the sun
the rotation of the earth
the ebb and flow of tides
the condensation of moisture
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.3
CCSS.RI.4.3
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.3
CCSS.RI.5.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Under which heading would you be MOST likely to find the causes of a hurricane?
"World Names"
"Weather Instruments"
"Into the Eye of the Storm"
"The Making of a Hurricane"
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.2
CCSS.RI.4.2
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
How do the photos help the reader understand the ideas in the article?
They show important weather scientists.
They show important weather instruments.
They show the destructive effects of hurricanes.
They show the differences between a hurricane and a tsunami.
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.K.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What kind of text structure does the sentence below show?
The low-pressure area acts like a chimney -- warm air is drawn in at the bottom, rises in a column, cools, and spreads out. As the air rises and more is draw in, the storm grows.
cause-and-effect
order of importance
problem-and-solution
compare-and-contrast
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which graphic feature in the article is MOST helpful in showing the reader how a hurricane forms?
the map
the photo
the diagram
the satellite image
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.K.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which graphic feature in the article is MOST helpful in showing the reader the paths of hurricanes?
the map
the diagram
the photograph
the satellite image
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.K.5
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which of these is MOST responsible for improvements in the prediction of hurricanes?
airplanes
anemometers
hygrometers
satellites
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
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