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Grade 4 English Language Arts practice sheet

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  1. Question 1

    Which clue in a text tells a reader to stress a word?

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    • the word is first on the page
    • the word is in italics or bold
    • the word has a vowel
    • the word is long
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    the word is in italics or bold

    Hint: Text features can show which words matter.

  2. Question 2

    What happens when beavers build a dam?

    Nature's Engineers

    Beavers are sometimes called nature's engineers. An engineer is someone who designs and builds things, and beavers are amazing builders.

    Using their strong front teeth, beavers cut down small trees and branches. They pile the wood across a stream and pack the gaps with mud and stones. This dam slows the water and makes a deep pond.

    In the pond, beavers build a home called a lodge. Its entrance is underwater, which helps keep the family safe from predators such as wolves.

    Beaver ponds help other living things, too. Ducks, frogs, fish and moose often visit or live in the wetlands that beavers create.

    • The trees grow faster
    • The water slows down and forms a deep pond
    • The fish swim away to the ocean
    • The stream dries up forever
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    The water slows down and forms a deep pond

    Hint: This is cause and effect. Find the sentence that starts with “This dam…”.

  3. Question 3

    What is the job of a heading?

    • It lists every page in the book
    • It tells what a section of the text is about
    • It tells who wrote the book
    • It explains what a word means
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    It tells what a section of the text is about

    Hint: Headings are like titles for small parts of a text.

  4. Question 4

    Why did the seedlings grow fast?

    Two Plans

    Kenji wanted to build a treehouse. First, he drew a plan and collected boards. Because he had measured twice, the boards fit.

    Meanwhile, his sister Hana planted a garden below the tree. She watered it every morning, so the seedlings grew fast.

    • Kenji built a treehouse.
    • It rained every day.
    • Hana watered them every morning.
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    Hana watered them every morning.

    Hint: The word so shows the effect of the watering.

  5. Question 5

    What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

    • A metaphor uses “like” or “as”; a simile does not
    • A simile is always funny; a metaphor is always sad
    • A simile uses “like” or “as”; a metaphor does not
    • A simile is about sounds; a metaphor is about colours
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    A simile uses “like” or “as”; a metaphor does not

    Hint: Both compare two things. Only one uses the clue words “like” or “as”.

  6. Question 6

    Which sentence is written in first person?

    • You fed your cat before you left for the park.
    • Leo fed his cat before he left for the park.
    • I fed my cat before I left for the park.
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    I fed my cat before I left for the park.

    Hint: The narrator uses I, me, my or we and is a character in the story. That's first person.

  7. Question 7

    Which word in this sentence is a noun?

    Grandma bakes delicious bread.

    • delicious
    • bakes
    • bread
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    bread

    Hint: A noun names a person, place, thing or idea.

  8. Question 8

    Which word completes the sentence? The book ___ I borrowed is funny.

    • that
    • who
    • whom
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    that

    Hint: Use that or which for things. Who is for people.

  9. Question 9

    Which verb correctly completes the sentence?

    Tomorrow, Ravi ___ his grandparents.

    • visited
    • has visited
    • will visit
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    will visit

    Hint: “Tomorrow” hasn't happened yet, so use the future tense with “will”.

  10. Question 10

    Which word joins two independent clauses? I wanted a snack, but the fridge was empty.

    • empty
    • but
    • wanted
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    but

    Hint: But joins the two complete ideas.

Answer key

  1. 1. the word is in italics or bold (Listen, Speak & Read Aloud)
  2. 2. The water slows down and forms a deep pond (Reading Detectives)
  3. 3. It tells what a section of the text is about (Text Features)
  4. 4. Hana watered them every morning. (Clues in Texts)
  5. 5. A simile uses “like” or “as”; a metaphor does not (Figurative Language)
  6. 6. I fed my cat before I left for the park. (Point of View)
  7. 7. bread (Parts of Speech)
  8. 8. that (Grammar Gears)
  9. 9. will visit (Super Sentences)
  10. 10. but (Sentence Builders)

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