Benchmark 1 Review READING

Boost 4th grade reading skills! Practice theme, lesson, setting, and genre identification.

1. You must use the draw tools to HIGHLIGHT the text. (highlight new words, important details, connections.) 2. What Lesson can the reader learn from this passage? Be careful of your actions. Good things happen to people who are kind. Someones trash is another person's treasure. 3. When the widow had realized that she wasn't dreaming, she thought about who had been so generous to her. WHO do you think it was that cleaned her house and WHY did they do such a generous thing? Who: The golden snail cleaned her home.Why:The golden snail cleaned her home because she was the only person to pick up the golden snail and give it a home. Perhaps other Fisherman had seen the golden snail before and had thrown her back into the water (just as Dewi had done) time after time. 4. The lion caught a mouse but decided to be kind and let the mouse go instead of eating him. The mouse said he would help the lion one day to thank him. The next day, the lion got a thorn in his paw and the mouse saw he was in pain. So, the mouse ran over and pulled out the thorn. What is the theme of this story? It is important to eat whatever you catch so you won’t go hungry. Being nice to someone will make them want to be nice to you. Always help a lion, especially if he's bigger than you. 5. Peter, Peter, sugar eater,Always wanted things much sweeter.Adding sugar was a blunder,Now he is a toothless wonder. What is the theme of this poem? Sugar won't hurt your teeth. Eating sugar makes everything much sweeter. Too much sugar rots your teeth. 6. John: (loudly) “What are you doing?”Sam: “ I’m going to the store with my mom”John: “Do you want to come over after to play on my trampoline?”Sam: (excitedly) “Of course!” What description best describes the characteristics of the text above? It has stage direction and dialogue, therefore, it is a play. It has a beginning, middle, and end, therefore, it is a story. It rhymes, has stanzas, and meter, therefore, it is a poem. 7. A flea and a fly in a flueWere caught, so what could they do?Said the fly, "Let us flee.""Let us fly," said the flea.So they flew through a flaw in the flue. What description best describes the characteristics of the text above? It has stage direction and dialogue, therefore, it is a play. It has a beginning, middle, and end, therefore, it is a story. It rhymes, has stanzas, and meter, therefore, it is a poem. 8. You must use the draw tools to HIGHLIGHT the text. (highlight new words, important details, connections.) 9. Which event changed the poor widow forever? Finding the snail at the bottom of the stream. The snail turning into food. Dewi Limaran throwing the lovely snail away. 10. You must use the draw tools to HIGHLIGHT the text. (highlight new words, important details, connections.) 11. What is the setting of this story? high up in a tree the wilderness of Maine in the cellar of the house inside a cozy cabin