Grade 4 · English Language Arts · Unit 4 of 16
Features, perspective and cause
Understanding hyperlinks, bold and italic type, labels and captions, telling who is narrating, spotting personification, and tracing causes and effects.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Identify the purpose, form, and structure of a variety of texts and how they can communicate ideas and information. · headings, captions, diagrams and other text features
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
In an online article, a word in blue that you can click is called a…
hyperlink
Hint: A hyperlink takes you to another page when you click it.
Question 2
A bar graph has a title and labels. What do labels help you do?
know what each bar stands for
Hint: Labels tell what the bars and numbers mean.
Question 3
A picture shows a tall tree at the top and roots at the bottom. What kind of order is this?
top to bottom
Hint: Spatial order tells where things are in space, like top to bottom or left to right.
Question 4
Why did the water rise in the jug?
Crow was thirsty. She found a tall jug with a little water at the bottom. “My beak is too short,” she grumbled.
She thought hard. Then she dropped pebbles into the jug, one by one. The water slowly rose, and at last Crow took a long, cool drink.
Crow dropped pebbles into it.
Hint: Look for the cause: the pebbles took up space.
Question 5
Which part of this story is anthropomorphism, where an animal acts like a person?
Crow was thirsty. She found a tall jug with a little water at the bottom. “My beak is too short,” she grumbled.
She thought hard. Then she dropped pebbles into the jug, one by one. The water slowly rose, and at last Crow took a long, cool drink.
Crow grumbled and thought hard.
Hint: Real crows do not talk or plan like people.
Question 6
What does “the storm had run out of breath” mean?
The wind howled and slammed the shutters. Thunder grumbled across the sky like a hungry giant.
By morning the storm had run out of breath. The sun peeked over the hills as if nothing had happened.
The storm was over.
Hint: A person who runs out of breath stops. So did the storm.