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Canadian Daily Reading Comprehension Grade 4 © Chalkboard Publishing
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Social Studies
Who Invented That? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Making Silk in Ancient China . . . . . . . 6
Rivers of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Egypt’s Women Pharaohs . . . . . . . . . . 10
Slavery in Ancient Rome . . . . . . . . . . 13
Games Across the Ages . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The History of Bicycles . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Geography
Our Growing Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Living in Iqaluit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Health
Eating Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Why Playing Sports Is Good for You. . . . 27
Turn Down the Music! . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Character Education
When You See Bullying . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Be a Good Sport! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Fact Sheet: Peer Pressure . . . . . . . . . . 36
Science
The Truth About Tyrannosaurus Rex . . . 39
Where Did the Lions Go? . . . . . . . . . . 42
Growing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Habitat Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
How Does That Help? . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers 52
Deforestation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Canola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
How Hard Is That?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Magnets Are More Than Fun . . . . . . . . 62
A Star Is Born. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Seeing Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
The World at Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Earthquake! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Careers
What Does a Marine Biologist Do? . . . . 75
What Does a Carpenter Do? . . . . . . . . 77
What Does a Firefighter Do? . . . . . . . . 79
Biography
Roald Dahl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Spider-Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Who Was Paul Bunyan? . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Marie Curie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Pauline Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Fables and Folktales
The Goose and the Golden Eggs . . . . . . 94
The Rich Miser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Rich Man and the Thief . . . . . . . . 98
Graphic Organizers . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
How Am I Doing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Reading Comprehension Student
Tracking Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Achievement Certificate. . . . . . . . . . 112
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113