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Grade 4 English Language Arts practice sheet

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  1. Question 1

    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…”.

  2. Question 2

    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.

  3. Question 3

    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”.

  4. Question 4

    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.

  5. Question 5

    Which prefix turns “heat” into a word that means “to heat before”?

    • pre-
    • mis-
    • re-
    • dis-
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    pre-

    Hint: re- means again, dis- means not, mis- means wrongly and pre- means before.

  6. Question 6

    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.

  7. Question 7

    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”.

  8. Question 8

    Which sentence uses a comma correctly?

    • The team flew to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
    • The team flew to, Winnipeg Manitoba.
    • The team, flew to Winnipeg Manitoba.
    • The team flew to Winnipeg Manitoba.
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    The team flew to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    Hint: Put a comma between the name of a city and its province or territory: Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  9. Question 9

    What does “light” mean in this sentence?

    This box is light enough for me to carry.

    • brightness from the sun or a lamp
    • to start a fire
    • pale in colour
    • not heavy
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    not heavy

    Hint: The clue is “enough for me to carry”.

  10. Question 10

    Which transition best fills the blank?

    Many animals sleep through most of the winter.

    ___, groundhogs hibernate in underground burrows.

    • However
    • As a result
    • For example
    • Finally
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    For example

    Hint: Groundhogs are one example of animals that sleep through winter.

Answer key

  1. 1. The water slows down and forms a deep pond (Reading Detectives)
  2. 2. It tells what a section of the text is about (Text Features)
  3. 3. A simile uses “like” or “as”; a metaphor does not (Figurative Language)
  4. 4. I fed my cat before I left for the park. (Point of View)
  5. 5. pre- (Word Builders)
  6. 6. bread (Parts of Speech)
  7. 7. will visit (Super Sentences)
  8. 8. The team flew to Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Punctuation Power)
  9. 9. not heavy (Sound-Alikes)
  10. 10. For example (Paragraph Power)

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