Informational text quiz Grade 4 with answer key

📚 Quick Study Guide: Informational Texts for Grade 4

• 📖 What are Informational Texts? These are non-fiction texts that give you facts and true information about a topic. They are NOT made-up stories.
• 🔍 Main Purpose: To inform, explain, or describe something real. They answer questions like 'who,' 'what,' 'when,' 'where,' 'why,' and 'how.'
• 🧩 Common Features: Look for headings, subheadings, bold words, captions, photographs, diagrams, maps, and glossaries. These help you understand the text better.
• 💡 Finding the Main Idea: Ask yourself, "What is the most important point the author wants me to know about this topic?" It's often found in the introduction or conclusion.
• 🧐 Identifying Key Details: These are facts, examples, or descriptions that support the main idea. They help you learn more about the topic.
• ✍️ Text Structure: Informational texts can be organized in different ways, like cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, description, or problem and solution.
• ✅ Fact vs. Opinion: Remember that informational texts deal with facts (things that can be proven true), not opinions (what someone thinks or feels).

📝 Practice Quiz: Informational Texts

1. What is the main purpose of an informational text?

1. To tell a made-up story
2. To entertain the reader with jokes
3. To give facts and true information about a topic
4. To persuade the reader to buy something

2. Which of these is NOT a common feature of an informational text?

1. Photographs and diagrams
2. A list of characters
3. Headings and subheadings
4. A glossary of important words

3. If you want to find the meaning of a bolded word in an informational text, where would you most likely look?

1. The table of contents
2. The glossary
3. The index
4. The author's biography

4. A text that explains the steps of how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly is an example of which text structure?

1. Compare and contrast
2. Problem and solution
3. Sequence
4. Description

5. Read the following sentence: "The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world." Is this a fact or an opinion?

1. Fact
2. Opinion
3. Both a fact and an opinion
4. Neither a fact nor an opinion

6. What is the best way to find the main idea of an informational text?

1. Look at the pictures only
2. Read the first and last paragraphs carefully
3. Count the number of sentences
4. Skip to the middle of the text

7. Which of these would you expect to find in an informational text about planets?

1. A dialogue between two talking aliens
2. A recipe for moon dust cookies
3. Facts about the size and distance of planets
4. A fictional story about a space adventure