Reading tests for children
Reading Level Assessment – Assess your child's reading now!
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Step 1. How Old is Your Child?
Step 2. Quick Reading Assessment
Use our One-Page Reading Level Assessment to find your child’s level.
Then choose books from your child’s level and start reading!
Can your 3 year old read this sentence?
The cat sat.
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I pack my bag.
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Birds fly in the sky.
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Did you ever see bees crawl inside flowers?
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Birds can be many different sizes.
The largest bird of all is the ostrich.
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Using a Free Reading Test Can Help You Help Your Child!
Do you need to know your child’s reading level, his decoding skills level, reading fluency and reading comprehension?
Using these free online reading tests for kids can help you assess your child’s current reading level. Below, I’ll break down the types of reading test types you may want to use.
You can use these reading tests for kids as a screening for the possible presence of dyslexia in your child, a reading grade-level placement test, or to assess your child’s current level of reading fluency. Just pick the free reading test(s) that will provide with the information you are seeking.
Assessing your child’s reading level may provide you with information to determine the type of reading help your child may need and determine how far behind your child may be.
If you find your child is far behind, you will want to seek a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation to determine the root cause of your child’s reading difficulties. Having an evaluation will help you provide the best reading program to meet your child’s needs.
Reading skill involves reading decoding, fluency, and comprehension. You’ll need to decide which aspect of reading concerns you. Select an appropriate reading test based upon your child’s individual needs.
Reading decoding is the ability to understand or decipher the sounds represented by each letter or combination of letters in a word. This is the first, and most basic, skill required for a child to be able to read. It is the core problem area for children with dyslexia.
For an overall snapshot of your child’s reading abilities, there is a Free Reading Test at K5 Learning (includes a math assessment too). This test will provide you with your child’s current grade level in the following areas:
- Phonemic Awareness – individual sounds within the spoken language
- Phonics – understanding letters and sounds in the written word
- Sight Words – high frequency words
- Vocabulary – the meanings of words in context
- Reading Comprehension – understanding what is read
- Math Numbers and Operations – adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, fractions
- Measurement Concepts – time, money, measuring
- Geometry – characteristics and properties of geometric shapes.
I like the K5 Reading and Math Assessment because it gives you a visual bar with your child’s performance level. It also gives the “Mastery Range,” so you can easily see what level of performance your child has within his or her current performance level.
Additionally, this assessment also gives you your child’s “Placement Level,” which is ideal for knowing exactly where to START working with your child.
The K5 Reading assessment is free, but you do have to sign up for an account to use the assessment. At the time I’m writing this, NO credit card info is required and there are no obligations for the free trial. Your first 14 days are free, so you can even try out their lessons to see if your child likes them.
The first area of reading test you may need to use is a reading decoding test
If you suspect your child has dyslexia, you may want to begin with a free online reading test for dyslexia available through the **Reading Success Lab. “The Reading Success Lab’s tool is a quick assessment that indicates whether a basic reading decoding problem might be present.
” Since an inability to decode words is at the heart of true dyslexia, it is very important to understand issues which may be involved in poor reading abilities if your child shows signs of dyslexia.
The Sound Reading program is backed by research showing it to be an effective instructional program for reading. They offer a free reading test that your child can take to determine his current reading skill level. Given this free test is related to the Sound Reading program, of course they’d love it if you’d buy their program, but you’ll want to check out a variety of program options prior to choosing a program.
If you would like an informal, free, online reading test without having to register (like is required for the Reading Success Lab), you may find the **”Red Flag Reading Screening” to be helpful. This test is only a screening test. It is best used to gauge how well, or if, your child is progressing in reading. You can also use it to determine if your child is indeed reading at or near grade-level.
The Red Flag Reading Screening is “not designed to be a comprehensive evaluation or placement tool. It is merely a ‘snapshot’ indicator, and poor performance indicates the need for further investigation of a student’s academic skills and deficiencies.”
Another free online reading test for kids is called “Abecedarian” and it’s available through Balanced Reading’s Assessments page. Written by two reading researchers, Sebastian Wren and Jennifer Watts, the Abecedarian is available for you to download and use for free. This is a comprehensive and thorough evaluation of several different important skills for reading which will give you a solid indication of your child’s short-comings when it comes to reading. By using this reading test, you’ll know which skills require direct instruction and which ones your child has already mastered. This is an excellent reading test to use at any time to get a solid snapshot of your child’s reading abilities.
If your child can decode words fairly well, you may want to determine what grade-level your child currently reads at, whether he reads fluently, or whether his comprehension is good.
You can check these higher-level reading skills of your child’s by picking a free reading test from the list below. These Free Reading Test options are primarily used for grade-level placement or screening for reading disabilities, so they may or may not provide you the specific information you are seeking.
- Sonlight Curriculum’s Reading Assessments
- K12’s Reading Placement Tests
- National Right to Read Reading Competency Test
The second component of reading skill is called “Reading Fluency”
Reading fluency is a demonstrated ability to read smoothly in a rhythmic, and expressive manner. If your child is reading fluently, he will be able to read through a passage without stopping for more than a second or two to figure out words. Your child will generally read the passage as if he were a smooth talker. A child may falter briefly every few paragraphs and still read fluently. It is the degree and frequency of hesitations that determine if a child reads fluently.
For children with reading decoding difficulties, reading smoothly with understanding can be a significant issue. When you have your child practice Reading Fluently, it will be helpful to measure your child’s fluency level.
A great free Reading Test to use is DIBELS. The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They Reading Test is designed to provide short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills. You can use the DIBELS Reading Test when you begin working on fluency and at regular intervals to measure progress. DIBELS is offered by the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning.
The third component of successful reading is “Reading Comprehension”.
There is a comprehension Reading Test available for free at:**Pearson Longman, which is a textbook publisher. There are Reading Tests for grades 1-8, and each grade level has multiple reading tests to choose from.
If you used a Reading Test to determine your child’s reading level and found your child has significant issues with reading decoding, reading fluency, or reading comprehension, I HIGHLY recommend seeking a comprehensive evaluation for learning disabilities, like dyslexia. If your child has dyslexia, he will need special help to learn how to read well.
You may also wish to check out our information on Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary since these aspects of reading skill can have a significant influence on Reading ability as well. Our information on Speed Reading may be of interest once your child reads fluently beyond a third grade level.
Best Wishes in helping your child learn to read well!
Table of Contents
- 1 Using a Free Reading Test Can Help You Help Your Child!
- 2 The first area of reading test you may need to use is a reading decoding test
- 3 The second component of reading skill is called “Reading Fluency”
- 4 The third component of successful reading is “Reading Comprehension”.
Reading tests for grade 1 online
- Online tests
- Reading
- 1 class
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Test quiz "Our favorite fairy tales"
03/21/2020 18508
An exciting quiz on Russian and foreign fairy tales for students in grades 1-4
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Leo Tolstoy "Jackdaw and jug"
04/23/2020 1021
In the course of work, you will get acquainted with the story from the alphabet of Leo Tolstoy. The test is designed so that children learn to analyze the text and be able to find the right answers to the questions posed.
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Journey through fairy tales
02/21/2020 3398
Dear guys! Today we will talk about Russian folk tales. We invite you to answer the test questions.
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Literary reading by E. Bekhlerova Cabbage leaf
05/12/2020 2048
The test is designed for children to learn how to analyze the text and how to find the right answers to the questions. The work can be used to prepare for the Olympiad by students of grade 1.
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Work with text
12/22/2019 863 0
The test is intended for 1st grade students.
At the lessons of literary reading, I pay much attention to working with texts not only for the formation of reading techniques and reading comprehension, but also for the development of the following indicators, which are aimed at developing the ability of students to apply the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities in educational and life situations: Finding information. Interpretation text. -
Final Literary Reading Test for Grade 1
11/08/2020 305 0
The test is used to organize a control check when assessing the achievements of first-graders in literary reading.
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Literary reading. 1 class. M. Prishvin "Forest drops"
03/28/2020 303 0
This test is designed to test the learned material on the story of M.
Prishvin "Forest drop" -
“April, April. Drops are ringing ... "
04/27/2020 332 0
The test is intended for 1st grade students. With the help of this test, the teacher can test the knowledge of the children on the topic "April. April. Drops are ringing ..." To successfully pass the test, students need to carefully read the poems in this section.
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Generalization under the section "And in jest, and seriously"
29.04.2020 116 0
Klimanova's textbook, 1st grade. Literary reading test. Generalization for the section "Joking and Seriously"
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Test for grade 1 on the works "Sasha the teaser", "Fedotka", "Hello"
05/03/2020 135 0
Literary reading test for grade 1 "School of Russia" based on the works of: N.
Artyukhova "Sasha the Teaser", K. Chukovsky "Fedotka", O. Driz "Hi". This test is recommended for students to test their knowledge of the studied works. The test contains 10 questions. -
Fairy tales, riddles, fables
04/13/2020 1082 0
The test was created on the basis of Klimanova's textbook "Literary reading" grade 1. Generalization on the section "Fairy tales, riddles, fables".
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Test on the section "And in jest and seriously"
04/15/2020 2159
This literary reading test is designed for students of the 1st grade in the teaching materials "School of Russia" topic "Jokingly and seriously"
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April, April, drops are ringing!
04/18/2020 973
The test was developed for 1st grade students according to Klimanov's textbook "Literary reading"
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Generalization under the section "And in jest and seriously.
" Literary reading. 1 class. School of Russia 04/29/2020 245
Literary reading test in the section "Joking and Seriously". 1 class. School of Russia
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Leo Tolstoy "The Old Man and the Apple Trees"
07.05.2020 338 0
In the course of work, you will get acquainted with the story from the alphabet of Leo Tolstoy. The test is designed so that children learn to analyze the text and be able to find the right answers to the questions posed. The work can be used to prepare for the Olympiad by students of grade 1.
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Tikhomirov "Nakhodka"
05/08/2020 75 0
This literary reading test is designed for students of the 1st grade in the teaching materials "School of Russia" based on the work of D.
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Generalization on the sections "Me and my friends", "About our smaller brothers"
05/27/2020 354 0
Test on the sections "Me and my friends", "About our smaller brothers". Grade 1, school of Russia
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Competition "Unadult books". 21 stages. L.N. Tolstoy. "Filipok"
06/12/2020 387 0
A test for children and adults who read books with pleasure and very attentively. It is part of the "Non-Adult Books" competition, which takes place as part of the Third Children's Art Festival "Non-Adult Festival".
Reading tests for grade 4 online
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Russian language MODO 1.
11/10/2022 13833
The test is designed to prepare students in grade 4 to participate in MODO
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Verification work on literary reading Grade 4 EMC "School of Russia" on the topic: "Country of childhood"
02/08/2022 3039
Testing work is designed to test the basic skills of students in the 4th grade according to the TMC "Nkola of Russia" in literary reading.
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Test based on the play-tale by S.Ya.Marshak "Twelve months"
03/26/2020 6986
This test is designed to test the learned material on the work of S.
Ya. Marshak "Twelve Months" -
Mathematics task 3.8
02/06/2021 13815
There is only one task, but on the 3rd grade math page you will find more!
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Test quiz "Our favorite fairy tales"
03/21/2020 18508
An exciting quiz on Russian and foreign fairy tales for students in grades 1-4
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V. Kataev "Son of the regiment"
07/08/2018 7486
Literary reading test from the summer book list for 4th grade students.
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MM. Zoshchenko - "Yolka"
02/13/2023 76 0
Literary reading test. The story of Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko "Yolka". 4th grade
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Literary reading. Final test on the topic "Literary tales" Grade 4, EMC "School of Russia"
06/07/2017 23914
The test is designed to test knowledge on the topic "Literary fairy tales" Grade 4 EMC "School of Russia"
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Section "Nature and us". Reading grade 4
04/03/2019 10494
Test to test knowledge in the section "Nature and us" in literary reading for students in grade 4.
Program School of Russia, Federal State Educational Standard, textbook Literary reading grade 4, part 2, Prosveshchenie publishing house, authors L.F. Klimanov, V.G. Goretsky, M.V. Golovanova and others -
Verification work on the section "Poetic notebook". Literary reading grade 4. 1 hour
11/15/2020 11378
The test is designed to test the knowledge of 4th grade students in the section "Poetic notebook" of the subject Literary reading. EMC "School of Russia". Textbook L.F. Klimanov, V.G. Goretsky 1 part.
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Fables I.A. Krylova
04/21/2016 10926
Test for the content of fables by I.
A. Krylov for primary school students. To pass the test, you need to know the content of many fables, such as: "Mirror and Monkey", "Monkey and Glasses", "Quartet", "Demyanova's Ear" and others. -
Quiz based on the fairy tale by S.T. Aksakov "The Scarlet Flower"
12/22/2020 7359
Quiz for the lesson of literary reading to the fairy tale by S.T. Aksakov "The Scarlet Flower". EMC "School of Russia". Textbook "Literary reading grade 4, part 1" authors L.F. Klimanova, V.G. Goretsky and others
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Test based on the work of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak "Priyomysh"
02/08/2022 265 0
This test will help you understand how well the story was read.
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Literary reading test for grade 4 in the section "Poetry notebook 2"
04/20/2020 4415
Final test in the section "Poetry notebook 2" for grade 4 in literary reading (EMC "SHR")
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Grade 4 Literary reading test in the section "Motherland"
04/08/2020 19496
Literary reading test for 4th grade students of the EMC "School of Russia" in the section "Motherland".
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Literature test
01/30/2014 39951
The test is designed to prepare for passing the final attestation for the primary school course.
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A.I. Kuprin "Starlings"
02/15/2022 342 0
Literary reading test in the 4th grade makes it possible to check the reading literacy of students.
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Vladimir Mayakovsky "Good attitude to horses"
04/13/2020 589 0
The test includes questions on knowledge of the author's biography and understanding of his poem.
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Works by P.P.Bazhov
02/10/2018 1158
The test is designed to test the knowledge of primary school students.
Based on the works of P.P. Bazhova -
Vitya Maleev at school and at home
07/22/2020 610 0
Quiz based on the work of Nikolai Nosov "Vitya Maleev at school and at home"
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Mamin-Sibiryak "Spit"
02/04/2019 2352 0
Take a 12-question literary reading test and check how well you know Mamin-Sibiryak's work "Spit".
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nature and us
03/17/2019 692
Multiple choice test on the subject "Literary reading" (EMC "Literary reading" by L.
F. Klimanova, V.G. Goretsky, M.V. Golovanova and others, grade 4). The test checks knowledge of the material in the section "Nature and us", part 2 -
Grade 4 literary reading. Test on the topic: "ES Veltistov "Adventures of Electronics".
04/13/2020 14665
Test for 4th grade students on literary reading on the topic: "E.S. Veltistov "Adventures of Electronics"
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Test based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen "The Little Mermaid", grade 4, literary reading
04/22/2020 25252
Test based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen "The Little Mermaid", grade 4, literary reading.
Contains 20 questions. Test time - 10 min
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Literary reading by E. Bekhlerova Cabbage leaf
05/12/2020 2048
The test is designed for children to learn how to analyze the text and how to find the right answers to the questions. The work can be used to prepare for the Olympiad by students of grade 1.
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Blitz control of reading speed and text comprehension
02/07/2022 211 0
Literary reading test for text comprehension. 4th grade
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Quiz "Ilya Muromets"
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11.2016 6011 The test (quiz) is designed for students of primary and secondary grades to consolidate the material passed - "Russian epics", "Epics about Ilya Muromets".
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Quiz based on the work of V.M. Garshin "The Tale of the Toad and the Rose"
06/04/2017 6027
The quiz is intended for students of the 4th grade, EMC "School of Russia"
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"Adventures Electronics" ATTENTIVE READER
04/14/2020 1054
The test will check the quality of reading and understanding of the work of E. Veltistov "Adventures of Electronics" Suitcase with four handles.
Textbook "Literary reading. Grade 4" EMC "School of Russia" -
Test on the topic "Country of Fantasy", literary reading, grade 4
04/13/2020 21939
The test contains 12 questions from the "Country of Fantasy" section of the literary reading textbook (part 2) for students in grade 4
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"Alice's Journey" CAREFUL READER
04/18/2020 1744
Contribute to the verification of a careful reading of an excerpt from Kir Bulychev's story “Alice's Journey. Bushes»
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Literary reading test grade 4 on the topic "Poetry notebook 2"
04/23/2020 972 0
Literary reading test for the section "Poetry notebook.
Part 2" -
Literary tales.
07/04/2020 139 0
Literary reading test for students in the 4th grade on the topic "Literary fairy tales"
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The Wonderful World of Classics Grade 4
11/07/2021 4047
The test is designed to test the basic skills of students in the 4th grade according to the EMC "School of Russia". Literary reading, section "Wonderful world of classics"
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Rikki-tikki-tavi quiz
03/10/2019 1111
This is a test about the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fairy tale.
This test will contain questions about this fairy tale. The test is based on the book "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" -
Test quiz "Journey through Andersen's fairy tales"
04/04/2020 9034
An exciting quiz for those who know and love the fairy tales of H. H. Andersen.
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Test for 4th grade students in literary reading on the topic “Chronicles. Epics. Lives."
07/04/2020 5245
Test for 4th grade students in literary reading on the topic “Chronicles. Epics. Lives."
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M.Yu. Lermontov Poems
03/28/2020 85 0
Literary reading test ("Perspective"), can be done after passing M.
Yu. Lermontov's poems (p.100-105) -
N.P. Wagner "Birch"
07.05.2020 124 0
Self-diagnosis of mastering the topic of the lesson. Grade 4 EMC "Primary school of the 21st century"
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Test L.N. Tolstoy "Childhood", "How a man removed a stone." Grade 4 EMC "School of Russia"
11/14/2020 1095 0
The test is intended for students of the 4th grade to test their knowledge on the work of Leo Tolstoy
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Test on the tale "Silver Hoof"
12/15/2020 4816
Test according to P.
P. Bazhov "Silver Hoof" is intended for students of the 4th grade (EMC "School of Russia") -
Quiz based on the literary fairy tale by P.P. Bazhov "Silver Hoof"
06/06/2017 6734
Literary reading quiz Grade 4, EMC "School of Russia"
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Letter reading test in the section "Foreign literature" (Grade 4)
05/14/2020 7047
Literary reading test in the section "Foreign Literature" is held in the 4th grade according to the "School of Russia" program. Compiled on the basis of tests for the textbook by L.F. Klimanova, V.G. Goretsky and others. "Literary reading. Grade 4" G.V. Shubina
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Test on the section "Little and big secrets of the country of Literature"
05/16/2020 236 0
Test on the section "Small and big secrets of the country of Literature.
Great Russian writers" for 4th grade in literary reading. -
Literary reading grade 4
04/10/2021 118 0
The test will help you find out how you learned the section on lit. reading called "Wonderland".
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Based on the work of N. Nosov "Vitya Maleev both at school and at home"
12/13/2021 68
Literary reading test for grade 4 students. UMK "Perspektiva"
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Formation of educational and reading activity Grade 4
02/16/2017 4336
Diagnostic tests and tasks check the formation of learning and reading activities of students in grade 4
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Ural gemstone.
02/17/2018 178
The test is designed to test the knowledge of P.P. Bazhov. Tests knowledge based on the knowledge of gems and works.
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Country Fantasy Literary reading
04/14/2020 1217
Literary reading test 4th grade Part 2. Section "Country Fantasy".
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"Land of Fantasy". E. S. Veltistov. "Adventures of Electronics"
04/27/2020 147 0
Subject: Unusual heroes of the science fiction genre. E. S. Veltistov. "Adventures of Electronics".
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Reading.
Section "Summer has come" 05/02/2020 268
Final test for the section "Summer has come" according to the textbook "Reading" (Grade 4) S.Yu. Ilina for general education organizations implementing adapted basic general education programs.
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Heroes don't die
05/02/2020 1445
The work is intended to get acquainted with the life and exploits of Valery Volkov, to teach text analysis and the ability to find the right answers to the questions posed. The work can be used to prepare for the Olympiad by students of grade 2. For a long time, the feat of the thirteen-year-old boy Valery Volkov was unknown. Only 20 years after the war, the whole country found out about him. The first 7 pages tell about the life of a young hero during the Second World War.
