4th Grade Close Reading Passages

The 765 is a huge steam engine that traveled along the Nickel Plate Road connecting St. Louis to New York. The 765 was a Berkshire engine that carried both freight and passengers. Where could you likely find the 765?

• Chicago

• Cleveland

• New York

• Akron

The state of Michigan is north of Ohio. It is a state that is practically surrounded by water, in fact, you are never more than 6 miles from a body of water. Michigan has two peninsulas, the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula. The LP is easy to recognize because it looks like a large mitten. Detroit is a large city in Michigan which is sometimes called the Motor City. What do people often call the LP?

• The Motor City

• The Upper Peninsula

• A Mitten

• The water state

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

Robert is 11 years old and has 3 sisters. He lives at 224 Monroe Street. He has 13 books, 9 fossils, 4 bikes, 10 posters on his wall and 2 lockers at his school. How many fossils does Robert have in his collection?

• 4

• 2

• 10

• 9

Canada is a very large country and people of many different cultural backgrounds live there. Because of this, there are lots of different Christmas traditions in Canada. Many of the traditions and celebrations come from French, English, Irish, Scottish, German, Norwegian,

Ukrainian and native/first nation influences. Canada has a lot of...

• People

• Christmas trees

• Christmas traditions

• Norwegian people

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

An adult African elephant's trunk is about seven feet (two meters) long! It's actually an elongated nose and upper lip. Like most noses, trunks are for smelling. Elephants have trunks for...

• Breathing

• Seven feet long

• Africa

• Smelling

Five eggs the size of Ping-Pong balls crack open as the tiny desert tortoises inside break through the shells. The two-inch-long babies immediately crawl off in search of flowers and grasses to eat. These animals may be newly hatched, but they already have survival skills that will allow them thrive in their harsh, sizzling-hot habitats.

This passage is mostly about...

• The Desert

• Flowers and Grasses

• Desert Tortoises

• Ping Pong Balls

Brittany can touch a basketball hoop. She can get books off a top shelf. She looks down to her friends when she talks to them. When she walks into the school she must tilt her head.

Brittany is...

• Good at Sports

• An Excellent Reader

• Nice and Friendly

• Tall

Woolly mammoths lived during the last ice age, and they may have died off when the weather became warmer and their food supply changed. Humans may also be partly responsible for their disappearance due to hunting. Although the word “mammoth” has come to mean “huge,” woolly mammoths were probably about the size of African elephants. Their ears were smaller than those of today’s elephants. This was probably an adaptation to the cold climate that kept their ears closer to their heads and kept them warmer. Their tusks were very long, about 15 feet (5 meters) and were used for fighting and digging in the deep snow. Mammoths were herbivores and ate mostly grass, but also ate other types of plants and flowers.

Woolly mammoths used their tusks for...

• Fighting and Digging

• 15 Feet Long

• Small Ears

• Humans Killed the Mammoth

James ran to the window to see his bird feeder. It was a cold day in Conneaut, Ohio and there were dozens of birds eating the sunflower seeds. James counted the birds; there were three cardinals, two chickadees and five blue jays.

What color were the five birds?

• Red

• Brown

• Blue

• Yellow

The great horned owl is one of the most common owls in North America, found in a range of habitats that includes forests, swamps, deserts, tundra edges, tropical rain forests, cities, suburbs, and parks. If you live in North America, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the deep, soft, stuttering hoots of this owl: hoo-h’HOO-hoo-hoo. This owl uses this hoot to advertise its territory. It can also make a variety of other sounds, including whistles, barks, shrieks, hisses, coos, and wavering cries.

The great horned owl can be found in...

• Ohio

• Swamps

• Deserts

• Swamps, Deserts and Ohio