4th Grade Reading Comprehension

Match the following

• A short explanation of a text in your own words and without details

• Topic

• What the passage is mostly about

• Main Idea

• The message, moral, or lesson from the story

• Summary

• One or two words telling the subject of the passage

• Theme

The ​ (a)   of The Ant and the Grasshopper is "hard work", but the ​ (b)   is "Hard work pays off". The ​ (c)   is that the ant tries to convince the grasshopper to gather food and water, but the grasshopper doesn't listen.

• topic
• theme
• main idea

Context clues help to determine:

• the main idea

• the theme

• the meaning of unknown words

• the answer to a question

Which of the following is NOT a TEXT FEATURE?

• details

• illustration

• caption

• headings

Which of the following is NOT a TEXT STRUCTURE?

• Compare and Contrast

• Non-Fiction

• Conflict/Resolution

• Cause and Effect

Select all of the SYNONYMS for "happiness".

• sorrow

• glee

• joy

• fright

Select all of the ANTONYMS for COLD.

• chilly

• hot

• frigid

• humid

Rebecca

Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

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A trick that everyone abhors

In little girls is slamming doors.

A wealthy banker’s little daughter

Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater

(By name Rebecca Offendort),

Was given to this furious sport.

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She would deliberately go

And slam the door like billy-o!

To make her uncle Jacob start.

She was not really bad at heart,

But only rather rude and wild;

She was an aggravating child…

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—By Hilaire Belloc

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How many STANZAS are in the poem?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Rebecca

Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

~

A trick that everyone abhors

In little girls is slamming doors.

A wealthy banker’s little daughter

Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater

(By name Rebecca Offendort),

Was given to this furious sport.

~

She would deliberately go

And slam the door like billy-o!

To make her uncle Jacob start.

She was not really bad at heart,

But only rather rude and wild;

She was an aggravating child…

~

—By Hilaire Belloc

~

How many LINES are in the poem?

• 1

• 2

• 10

• 12

Rebecca

Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

~

A trick that everyone abhors

In little girls is slamming doors.

A wealthy banker’s little daughter

Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater

(By name Rebecca Offendort),

Was given to this furious sport.

~

She would deliberately go

And slam the door like billy-o!

To make her uncle Jacob start.

She was not really bad at heart,

But only rather rude and wild;

She was an aggravating child…

~

—By Hilaire Belloc

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In LINE 1 of the poem, what does the word "abhor" mean?

• loves

• finds funny

• hates

• wants for themselves