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Grade 4 Summarizing
To retell in few words is to               .
  1. predict
  2. explain
  3. infer
  4. summarize
Grade 4 Summarizing

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Why did ancient cultures make up stories about the Sun?
  1. to entertain one another
  2. to get children to fall asleep
  3. to help explain its movements
  4. to share the facts they had learned
Grade 4 Summarizing

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Many ancient cultures thought of the Sun as a
  1. god.
  2. hero.
  3. animal.
  4. brother.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RI.4.5
Read the paragraph below.

Goosebumps happen when your body gets cold or when you have a strong feeling, such as fear. Nerves carry a signal to tiny muscles in the skin. The muscles tighten. The muscles make the hair on the body stand up.

Which of the following sentences would be the best conclusion to the paragraph?
  1. Sometimes I get scared at night and get goosebumps.
  2. This causes the little bumps known as goosebumps.
  3. Science fiction books can be scary, too.
  4. If you have big muscles, you will get goosebumps more often.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RI.4.1

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Select the best summary of the article.
  1. The Trojans were given a peace offering by the Greeks and brought it into their city.
  2. The Trojans were blind and did not see that the peace offering was going to harm their city.
  3. The Trojans had fought long and hard and were finally glad that the war was over.
  4. The Trojans had been in the middle of a long and difficult war against the Greeks.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2

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Which choice is the best summary of the story?
  1. The pig refused to jump over the stile.
  2. A woman gave a saucer of milk to a cat so it would kill a rat.
  3. A woman bought a pig at the market, but she had a hard time getting it home.
  4. The butcher refused to kill the ox.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.4.3
Ethan and Eli are brothers. Ethan likes to play with Spiderman toys, whereas Eli likes to play with Disney toys. Both boys like to play computer games.

What sentence compares the brothers?
  1. Ethan and Eli are brothers.
  2. Ethan likes to play with Spiderman toys, whereas Eli like to play with Disney toys.
  3. Both boys like to play computer games.
  4. None of the above.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, RL.4.1, RL.4.2

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What needed to happen for the old woman to get home?
  1. She had to find her way.
  2. The pig had to jump over the stile.
  3. The fire had to burn the rope.
  4. Her horse had to move.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2
In order to give a good summary of a story, you must make sure you include which of the following:
  1. only the most important details, your own words, what the story is mostly about
  2. as many details as possible, all of the events in the story, in order, the author's words
  3. all of the above
  4. none of the above
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.4.6

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Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in the poem in the text?
  1. Your name is everything.
  2. Your name is what you make it.
  3. Your name carries a lot of weight.
  4. Your name can make or break you.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2

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Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in A Valentine?
  1. Love requires fancy notes and gifts.
  2. A simple "I love you" is good enough.
  3. Grandma looks the same as when she was young.
  4. Grandma has started to look a lot older and has white hair.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RI.4.1

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Which two quotations from the article best support the answer to Part A?
  1. There had been a time when the Trojans had gone out and fought with their enemies on the plain, sometimes they had beaten them in battle, and once they had very nearly burnt their ships.
  2. We can easily believe then that Priam, King of Troy, and his people were very glad to hear that one day the Greeks had gone home.
  3. A great rattling sound was heard, and the Trojans, if they had not been very blind and foolish, might have known that there was something wrong.
  4. 'You must make a Horse of Wood to be a peace-offering to Minerva. Make it, I advise you, very great, so that the Trojans may not take it within their walls.
  5. For while Laocoön, the priest of Neptune, the same that had thrown his spear at the Horse, was sacrificing a bull on the altar of his god, two great serpents came across the sea from a certain island that was near.
  6. That night they kept a feast to the gods with great joy, not knowing that the end of their city was now close at hand.
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Why did the old woman need milk from the cow?
  1. to get the cat to kill the rat
  2. to give to her pig
  3. to make butter for her bread
  4. to sell at the market
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RL.4.1

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Which lines from the poem show evidence of the answer to Part A?
  1. And, though her hair is snowy white,/Her eyes still have their maiden blue,
  2. No perfumed page nor sheet of gold/Was that first hint of love he sent,
  3. But with the secret gran'pa told---/"I love you"---gran'ma was content.
  4. If---though her head be bowed and gray---/If---though her feeble pulse be chill---
Grade 4 Summarizing
To create a timeline of events or show what happened from beginning to end is to               .
  1. formulate
  2. explain
  3. trace
  4. infer
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Except for the cat, whenever the old woman asked something to help her, it
  1. would not do it.
  2. called for help.
  3. gave an excuse.
  4. asked for money.
Grade 4 Summarizing
A teacher might ask a student to retell and/or summarize a story to figure out how well the student                 the story.
  1. likes
  2. dislikes
  3. understands
  4. remembers
Grade 4 Summarizing
The terms, "retell" and "summarize" are synonyms of each other. In other words, they mean the same thing.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2
List two things that a summary and a retelling of the same story would use.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2
When you retell a story, you tell the story again by using the author's words and including as many details as possible.
  1. True
  2. False
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