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Grade 4 Literary and Informational Text Practice Test

Build Grade 4 English Language Arts skills with five 10-question practice tests on literary and informational text, main ideas, inferences, text evidence, and author purpose.

Literary and Informational Text Practice Tests

These Grade 4 English Language Arts practice tests build reading comprehension with short literary and informational passages. Students identify main ideas, summarize events, make inferences, use text evidence, recognize text features, and determine an author’s purpose.

Skills covered

  • Distinguishing literary and informational text
  • Finding main ideas and supporting details
  • Making inferences from text evidence
  • Identifying character traits, setting, and plot
  • Summarizing literary and informational passages
  • Recognizing author purpose and informational text features

How to use these practice tests

Read the whole passage before answering. For literary text, consider the characters, setting, problem, events, and lesson. For informational text, look for the topic, main idea, facts, sequence, cause and effect, and text features. Choose the answer supported most directly by the passage.

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Grade 4 Literary and Informational Text Practice Tests

A 10-question Grade 4 English Language Arts practice test on literary and informational text, main ideas, inferences, text evidence, and author purpose.

Read each passage closely, identify the strongest text evidence, and choose the answer that best matches the passage.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

Which text is most likely literary?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A story about a child who discovers a talking fox.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: A story with an imaginative character and plot is literary text.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is A story about a child who discovers a talking fox.

A story with an imaginative character and plot is literary text.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Which text is most likely informational?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is An article explaining how volcanoes form.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: An article that explains a real process is informational text.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is An article explaining how volcanoes form.

An article that explains a real process is informational text.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a common purpose of literary text?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is To entertain or tell a story.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Literary texts commonly use characters and events to entertain or communicate ideas.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is To entertain or tell a story.

Literary texts commonly use characters and events to entertain or communicate ideas.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a common purpose of informational text?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is To explain or teach about a topic.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Informational text presents facts and explanations about a subject.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is To explain or teach about a topic.

Informational text presents facts and explanations about a subject.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

A passage describes a girl, her goal, and the problem stopping her. Which element is being developed?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Plot and character.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: A character with a goal and problem is part of a story plot.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is Plot and character.

A character with a goal and problem is part of a story plot.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

A passage includes headings, facts, and captions about oceans. What kind of text is it?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Informational text.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Headings, facts, and captions are common features of informational text.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is Informational text.

Headings, facts, and captions are common features of informational text.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

A story says, "The leaves danced across the sidewalk." What does this phrase most likely mean?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The wind moved the leaves.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: The phrase gives the leaves human-like action to describe wind moving them.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is The wind moved the leaves.

The phrase gives the leaves human-like action to describe wind moving them.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

An article gives steps for planting a garden in order. What is the author mainly trying to do?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Explain how to complete a task.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Ordered steps are used to explain a process.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is Explain how to complete a task.

Ordered steps are used to explain a process.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Which detail would best support a story about a character learning patience?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The character waits calmly for a slow seed to grow.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Waiting calmly for the seed shows patience.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is The character waits calmly for a slow seed to grow.

Waiting calmly for the seed shows patience.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Which feature would most likely appear in an informational article about planets?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is A labeled diagram.

  1. Read the passage: Look for the stated details and what they suggest about the text.
  2. Use text evidence: Labeled diagrams help explain factual topics such as planets.
  3. Choose the best answer: The correct choice is A labeled diagram.

Labeled diagrams help explain factual topics such as planets.

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Frequently asked questions about Grade 4 Literary and Informational Text

What is literary text?

Literary text tells a story or presents imaginative writing through characters, setting, plot, dialogue, or poetic language.

What is informational text?

Informational text explains a real topic using facts, details, definitions, examples, headings, diagrams, or steps.

How many questions are on this page?

The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 4 Literary and Informational Text questions in total.