📰 Reading Informational Text: Animal Camouflage (Grade 4)

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Read the text. Answer using evidence from the text.

Animal Camouflage

Camouflage is a way animals hide by blending in with their surroundings.

A snowshoe hare’s fur is brown in summer and white in winter, so it matches the ground. A stick insect looks so much like a twig that birds fly right past it. An octopus can change its skin color and texture in less than a second.

Camouflage helps prey animals hide from predators. But predators use it too: a tiger’s stripes help it sneak up on animals in tall grass.

1. What is camouflage?

2. How does the snowshoe hare change?

3. How fast can an octopus change color?

4. How do predators use camouflage?

Central idea
Key detail 1
Key detail 2

Answer key: 1) hiding by blending in with surroundings · 2) its fur turns from brown to white for winter · 3) in less than a second · 4) to sneak up on prey, like a tiger in tall grass · Central idea: Both prey and predators use camouflage to survive.

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About this grade 4 worksheet

Free Grade 4 English worksheet (Common Core RI.4.1): read the informational text "Animal Camouflage", find the main idea and answer questions with evidence. Skill: Key ideas and details in informational text. Level: Grade 4 — also suits Year 5 (UK).

For teachers: skills & standards

CCSS RI.4.1: Refer to details and examples when explaining and drawing inferences
CCSS RI.4.2: Determine the main idea, explain how details support it and summarise
CCSS RI.4.3: Key ideas and details in informational text
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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Key ideas and details in informational text.

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