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Grade 4 reading comprehension.

Use these free, printable worksheets to practice and improve reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing at a grade 4 level.

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Leveled stories & reading worksheets

These grade 4 leveled stories are taken from our series of leveled reading workbooks ; the complexity of the texts and exercises increase with each successive level.

Children's stories and reading worksheets

Over twenty free grade 4 children's stories and comprehension worksheets.  Each passage is followed by comprehension questions.

Historical reading worksheets & fables

Each historical passage or fable is followed by questions including exercises related to prediction, inference and character traits.

Reading comprehension exercises for grade 4

These reading worksheets  focus on specific comprehension topics such as author's purpose, making inferences, understanding words through context clues, and distinguishing fact from opinion. 

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Our free printable reading comprehension worksheets for grade 4, accompanied by a broad spectrum of comprehension-testing questions, are worth bringing into your learning orbit. We have stories that both inspire learning aspirations and take your imagination out on a promising tour and informational texts that keep kids informed on a variety of topics. Find themes of stories, narrative points of view, and multiple-meaning words. Differentiate facts from opinions. Practice matching and sorting. Learn first-hand how our resources are superior!

These pdf reading worksheets are great supplemental material for 4th grade children.

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.3

A Good Bad Day

The aha moment comes when Mr. Henderson tells Ivan his book report was well-written. Ivan is further excited when he knows there are more books up for grabs. Identify the narrative point of view, write what the noun "read" means, and more.

A Good Bad Day

A Visit to the Fire Station

The fire-station visit proves to be an informative affair. Majestic and awe-inspiring, the firefighters impress with their narration, too. In this 4th grade reading comprehension worksheet, answer a question about the subordinating conjunction and more.

A Visit to the Fire Station

The strongest of the big cats, leopards are often mixed up with cheetahs. From India to China to Africa, they are found in many parts of the world. Not quite content with these titbits about leopards? Explore leopards full-on in this grade 4 reading passage.

Leopards

Ooey Gooey Fun

With feast-for-the-eyes sights and music-to-the-ears sounds, the camping was awesome. The real pick was eating s'mores sitting around the campfire. In this 4th grade reading comprehension pdf, sort words as sight, sound, and taste, and more.

Ooey Gooey Fun

The Spider’s Web

How much brushing and picking did you do to free yourself from a spider's web the last time you walked into one? The Spider's Web pdf takes a look at what a spider's web is and how it's made. Practice finding the main idea in a paragraph and more.

The Spiderweb

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Grade 4 reading comprehension worksheets to help your students improve their reading skills in English. Reading comprehension in grade 4 is great because students are more fluent, and therefore can focus more on the content of a text, rather than reading fluency. Engage your students with these funny short texts and get them answering the reading comprehension questions. Use these readings in your daily lessons or as quick comprehension tasks during your English warm up. Click on the images below to download the comprehension worksheets. 

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4th Grade Reading Comprehension

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In the 4th grade we look for students to start to become a little more independent with their reading and attach a value of importance on reading. This is also the first grade level where reading level become self-evident to students. These worksheets contain reading assignments and sets of questions for your fourth grade students. In this section we have a huge series of reading comprehension worksheets specifically designed for fourth grade students. We refer to the goal for this grade level as the CONFIDENCE Stage. We want young readers to start believing in themselves, to the point, where the start don't feel any fear of going off on their own reading away. This is usually the reading testing grade level for most students. Students are ready to read and comprehend a little more. They are just about ready for completely independent reading. You should really try to work with these sheets as much as possible.

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Printable reading comprehension worksheets 4th grade, click the buttons to print each worksheet and answer key., a visit with sue reading passage.

The bus made its way through the crowded streets of Chicago and soon the class could see the water of Lake Michigan. The teacher reminded everyone that Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes.

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A Visit with Sue Multiple Choice Questions

This is a series of question that goes with the previous reading passage. An example question would be: Sue was discovered in what state?

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A Visit with Sue Activities

This is a series tasks that you will need a computer to complete. It is all related to the previous reading passage. Use the Internet to find a picture of Sue the dinosaur skeleton at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Juggler in Training Reading Passage

One night at supper Jennifer announced, "I want to learn how to juggle. I brought home a book from the library that shows me how to start juggling."

Juggler in Training Multiple Choice Questions

In the first juggling lesson how many balls did Jennifer put on her head at one time?

Juggler in Training Activities

Some of these tasks will require that you physically perform them. You will also need to look inside yourself and answer questions such as: Have you ever quit an activity because you thought you weren’t good at it? Did you try again later and succeed?

Tuttle the Turtle Reading Passage

Tuttle was snug inside his leathery egg. It was completely dark but he didn't care because he was warm and safe in a nest in the sand. His mother had left Tuttle and his brothers and sisters hidden inside the nest.

Tuttle the Turtle Multiple Choice Questions

Answer questions that go with the previous series of worksheets. When the safest time for baby turtles to hatch?

Tuttle the Turtle Activities

A green sea turtle can stay submerged under the water for up to five hours. If a green sea turtle gets air at 11 a.m. at what is the latest time will it need to get air again?

Seconds Count Reading Passage

Friday night Christy started to get her outfit ready for the next day's event. She pressed her long-sleeve Western shirt and jeans. She checked the snaps on the sleeves of her shirt.

Seconds Count Multiple Choice Questions

Answer a selection of questions that relates to the previous reading passage. What kind of competition were Christy and Trixie in?

Seconds Count Activities

These activities relate to the previous reading passage. Last year's champion enters the arena at a gallop. What are the different gaits of a horse?

The Aquarium Reading Passage

The bell rang and science class was over for the day. A couple of the kids stopped and asked Mr. Ramone if the class could take a field trip to the aquarium at the end of the school year.

The Aquarium Multiple Choice Questions

This and the next worksheet go right along with the previous reading worksheet passage. An example of a solid question in this section is: What was special about the shark tank? Who else in the classroom had visited the aquarium?

The Aquarium Matching Sheet

We provide you with pictures of a series of sea creatures. Using what you have read, name each of them.

Fraidy Cat Grandma Reading Passage

Cousins Eddie and Emily couldn't believe their ears. Grandma Jordan was never afraid of anything. Why, they had heard her stories of driving her old hot rod Dodge Charger, bright metallic blue with a white top, way back when.

Fraidy Cat Grandma Multiple Choice Questions

These questions apply to the previous reading worksheet. Where will Grandma Jordan take Eddie and Emily after they have their shots?

Fraidy Cat Grandma Activities

Answer a series of questions and complete tasks that are related to what you have read. Why do kids need to have immunization shots in order to attend school?

Teaching in 1776 Reading Passage

Seventeen year-old Becky Robinson was nervous about her job interview. She had never been more than five miles from her home and here she was in the small village of Brookline, Massachusetts, twenty-four miles from her home.

Teaching in 1776 Multiple Choice Questions

As you can tell from the reading passage, teaching has changed a good bit since that time. What skill was important to the committee that hired the new teacher?

Teaching in 1776 Activities

Locate pictures of old documents like the Declaration of Independence. Compare the handwriting on these documents with the handwriting of today.

Norman Rockwell - American Illustrator Reading Passage

This is quick biography of the legendary illustrator. Norman let his imagination flow with the stories. He could see the characters of the novels in his mind as he was engrossed in the stories.

Norman Rockwell Multiple Choice Questions

You will answer a series of questions based on the reading passage. At school the kids used what name did the kids call Norman Rockwell?

Norman Rockwell Activities

This is a sheet that you can complete as an entire class. Have a class discussion about why you shouldn't call other kids names or tease them. Talk about how Norman Rockwell felt when other kids did not treat him well because of how he looked or what he wore.

Ruby Bridges - A Girl Who Changed America

In 1960 segregation was practiced, especially in the southern states. One part of segregation was that white children attended school together and black children attended their own schools.

Ruby Bridges Multiple Choice Questions

This is a series of questions that goes with the previous reading worksheet. Who helped Ruby every day in and out of school?

Ruby Bridges Activities

A series of questions that goes with your previous reading passage. Why did the angry mob protest that Ruby was going to the school she was attending?

Fiddling Forever Reading Passage

There was no question about it, Sven was the best fiddler in the county and everyone loved to hear him play. He lived alone in the deep Minnesota woods and occasionally came to town.

Fiddling Forever Multiple Choice Questions

We ask you a series of questions that goes with the previous reading passage. An example would be: Where does this story take place?

Fiddling Forever Activities

This story is a version of an American folk tale. Explain what a folk tale is. If you don't know, look up the answer.

Cupid and Psyche Reading Practice

This passage is an exercept from a classic work of Holbrooke. It is a single passage and a selection of questions. Such as: what can make love depart if it possesses the soul?

The Land of Counterpane Reading

What do you think the word counterpane means? This quick reading worksheet will keep your students pretty busy and then have them answer 3 questions and a bonus.

The Story of Narcissus

Read the passage and then answer questions such as: Why did the gods turn Narcissus into a flower?

Minerva and Arachne Reading

This reading selection comes from "Round the World in Myth and Song" by Florence Holbrooke. We dive in and there is a series of questions that follow below.

Minerva and Arachne Questions

The questions and reading section you will find here flows with previous reading passage. Where do Leda and the Swan appear in this story?

A Considerable Speck

A reading passage from a Frost poem.

Frost Questions Sheet

Consider the final lines of the poem. There are two "displays of mind" in this poem. What are they? What does message does the poet convey - explicitly and implicitly - in the final lines of the poem?

Reading Comprehension Questions: Shiloh

Did Marty do the right thing when he made the deal with Judd? Why or why not?

Fiction Comprehension Journal

A template for journaling a work of fiction.

The Magnetic Compass Reading

A passage that covers a wide range of history. What did the Vikings invent, and how did it give them an advantage over other civilizations?

Day and Night

Why are day and night not equally divided into 12 hours each?

How The Rise of Cities Changed the World

Before the growth of what we call "civilization," people lived in small villages, and fed themselves by hunting and gathering. this reading passage explores this time in history.

Rise of Cities Changed the World Questions

We answer a series of problems. What are two ways that the rise of civilization changed human societies?

Saved By A Dolphin Reading

This reading passage explores a well known piece from Baldwin.

Saved By A Dolphin Part 2

This is a long reading passage this the work continued.

Saved By A Dolphin Questions

These questions are based on the first two pages of reading. What does Arion ask the captain and the sailors to do?

A Clever Slave Reading

A story of the rich man Xanthus that is thought to be an inspirational story.

A Clever Slave Questions Worksheet

Why does Aesop choose the largest bundle? Why does this turn out to be the wise choice?

Seat Belts, Save Lives Reading

This reading passage just makes sense to explore in the 4th grade. What is the leading cause of death for people aged 11 to 27?

Baby Humpback Whales "Talk" to Mom Reading

This is an interesting reading passage that explores some recent science. Researchers in Denmark recently tracked two humpback whale mothers and eight baby calves to figure out how the babies signal hunger.

Baby Humpback Whales "Talk" to Mom Comprehension Questions

Questions that go with the previous worksheet. Example: Why is the journey back with their mothers dangerous for the calves?

Five Fables

A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson. Read each fable. What lesson is it teaching? Write your answer on the line.

Five Fables Part 2

Includes: The Mouse and the Bull, The Fox and the Grapes.

How to Improve a 4th Grader's Level of Reading Comprehension

The 4th grade is a good time for kids to learn slightly complex concepts. By this time, they have developed a sense of the schooling system. They also have essential alphabetical knowledge. As a teacher, it is vital to work on the reading comprehension part of the 4th graders. There are many ways to improve students' comprehension in the 4th grade. While some instructors use traditional methods of improving students' reading skills, others use fun activities to achieve the goal.

The strong readers seem to breeze through most of school while the struggling readers seem to be stuck in mud with their learning. This is why we encourage all 4th grade teachers to model a consistent self-reading program with students. What we mean by this is to share with your class what you are reading as an adult. At this level students as quietly searching for a role model and what better role model than their teacher. What I do is every Monday I set aside five minutes to explain to students what I read over the weekend. I ask students to make predictions on where the stories I am reading are going and we review their predictions the following Monday. Which ever student guesses correctly, I give them a sugar-free lollipop. This is pretty effective for getting students engaged.

Reading Comprehension Activities for 4th Graders

Dice Rolling Games One of the most exciting reading comprehension activities for 4th graders is dice rolling games. You will need a set of a few dice to conduct this activity. By assigning different questions about a specific topic to each number on the dice, you can ask your students to roll it turn by turn.

As soon as the dice rolls up a number, the student will have to read and answer the question associated with that number. This game will engage them to play and improve their comprehension.

Build Things to Explain

4th graders love to be experimental. You can use their ability to improve their reading and understanding. As a teacher, you can ask each of your students to build structures of their choice using building blocks, paper cups, paper clips, or color markers. Once done, you can ask them to explain to everyone about their structure.

If you want the kids to learn about a specific topic, you may assign them relevant structures to build and present to the class. By engaging in the activity, the 4th graders can learn to comprehend different concepts using their ideas.

Color-Coding Games

Color-coding can help students differentiate between different terms and their uses in a passage. By highlighting words and phrases with unique colors, you can help your students to familiarize the meanings and types of words used in a course. This activity is an excellent fit for teaching the use of language.

You can assign colors to different meanings (positive or negative). For example, by highlighting a word with red color, you may help your students identify it as an item's negative feature.

Cheeseburger Reports

Cheeseburger reports are effective for independent learning and organizational comprehension. Students can arrange relevant information into designated spaces by drawing them in a cheeseburger format in this activity. You may identify mandatory and optional parts to add to the report as preferred.

For example, 4th graders can place the story's title in the top bun, the characters of the story in the layer below it, followed by the additional details (chronologically) placed in the chees slice and lower bun.

The flip notes activity can be as creative as you want it to be. You can create colored pieces of small notes and place them randomly in the students' books. Each student can flip open the book to find a message with a question relevant to the subject. You can ask the 4th graders to state the answers based on their knowledge.

To improve their comprehension time, you can also use a clock timer for each student to answer the question in time.

There are many ways to improve the reading comprehension of 4th graders. While this may be correct, it is essential to understand the strengths and weaknesses of students before engaging them in the activities. If you are a mother teaching your kids at home, you can find multiple fun activities on the internet to get started.

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4th grade teaching tips

Readers in the fourth grade should develop more advanced skills as they pertain to reading unfamiliar words. This includes using their understanding of the sounds letters make, syllabic patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and root words to accurately read unknown words. Likewise, fourth graders should be able to explain the general type of informational text they’re reading, such as cause and effect, comparison, or chronology. The tips discussed below enable the development of these and other reading comprehension skills.

Visualize What the Text is Discussing

By encouraging readers to visualize what they’re reading, they will be more likely to understand it. For example, if a student is reading about what happens when water boils, they can visualize the process of adding water to a pan, turning on the range, heating up the water, and watching the steam rise as the water boils. This kind of visualization also facilitates an understanding of the type of reading – that it’s a process of cause and effect. Visualization is best used when students focus on events, people, places, or things.

Expose Readers to Word Meanings in Multiple Settings

Part of enabling students to learn how to read and decode unfamiliar words is to help them explore words in different types of settings. That is, instead of simply presenting students with new words by writing it on the board and having them copy it down, explain the meaning of the word, pick out the root of the word and discuss it, ask children to identify the prefix or suffix, and so on. Then, give students the opportunity to engage with the word in informational texts, literature, or even simpler readings, like magazines. The more opportunities children are given to learn new words, the more capable they will be of deciphering unfamiliar ones.

Use a Word Map

Graphic organizers like word maps are an excellent tool for encouraging improved understanding of words and word structures. A word map helps readers understand how words relate to one another by associating them with synonyms and antonyms. For example, students might learn the meaning of increasing by associating it with synonyms like expanding and antonyms like decreasing . Simply write the primary word, in this case, increasing , with lines connecting it to the associated words expanding and decreasing . Each associated word should be identified as a synonym or antonym.

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Below are 10 reading comprehension worksheets and tests that are accurately measured to fit the 4th grade level.

Working With Chocolate

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Answering questions with evidence, Identifying the main topic and key ideas,Sequencing questions.

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Vacation Opinions

Facts vs. opinions inference, Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas.

Selena’s Birthday

Selena's Birthday

Cause and effect comprehension, Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas

My Favorite Color

Understanding figurative language, Central message, lesson or moral, Identifying the main topic and key ideas

Managing Her Illness

Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Identifying the author’s point of view, Cause and effect comprehension

Grocery Store Bags

Identifying intent and conclusions, Central message, lesson or moral, Identifying the main topic and key ideas

Dorado Alerts

Understanding figurative language, Identifying a problem and solution described in the text, Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas

Cody Likes to Run

Central message, lesson or moral ,Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Cause and effect comprehension

Carpet Shopping

Identifying a problem and solution described in the text, Cause and effect comprehension, Identifying the main topic and key ideas.

Cause and effect comprehension, Central message, Identifying the main topic and key ideas, Identifying the author’s point of view

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The 4th grade reading comprehension activities below are coordinated with the 4th grade spelling words curriculum on a week-to-week basis, so both can be used together as part of a comprehensive program, or each can be used separately. The worksheets include fourth grade appropriate reading passages and related questions. Each worksheet (as well as the spelling curriculum ) also includes a cross-curricular focus on earth science, physical science, history, social sciences, mathematics and life sciences. This allows students to build their reading comprehension skills and reinforce knowledge in other subject areas. There are 36 weeks of fourth grade worksheets, following most standard school year calendars.

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The main objective of the reading comprehension worksheets featured here is to train 4th grade children to refer to details while they draw inferences, describe characters and settings in depth, focus on words and phrases including allusions, understand the structural elements of poems such as meter and verse, know syllabication and letter-sound correspondence and read with sufficient accuracy and fluency. Get off to a flying start with the free worksheets here!

A Game of Baseball | Non-fiction

A Game of Baseball | Non-fiction

Baseball is one of the most widely played games in the country. With this grade 4 worksheet PDF, children learn domain-specific words and enrich their vocabulary with baseball terms and phrases and complete a paragraph.

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Turtles | Non-fiction

This article sheds light on how turtles differ from other reptiles. 4th-grade children sharpen their reading skills in this worksheet packed with an amazing set of questions on key details and hone vocabulary with some domain-specific words.

Ooloo Takes a Bath | Fiction

Ooloo Takes a Bath | Fiction

Explore Ooloo's bath and how it creates a stir in the neighborhood. This ELA worksheet prepares children to find the central message and nurtures their flair for retelling part of the story and reflecting on what is read.

A Rule is a Rule | Fiction

A Rule is a Rule | Fiction

Comprehend the value of rules in life and figure out what makes Jessie agree with Mrs. Williamson. Test comprehension with the follow-up exercises like adding the suffix -er to make verbs, analyze Jessie's character too.

Packrat's Perfect Treasure | Fiction

Packrat's Perfect Treasure | Fiction

Learn how Packrat finds three friends in his pursuit for treasure with this interesting story. The printable passage reading gives an insight into finding the moral of the story and drawing inferences, both central to the Common Core Standards.

Happy Hannah | Fiction

Happy Hannah | Fiction

"Happy Hannah" drives home that helpful friends make the world a better place to live in. This story comprehension introduces palindromes and comes with a few expressions kids can use in daily life.

Nature | Poem

Nature | Poem

Nature has countless faces like quiet, heat or rain. This refreshing poem celebrates the accommodating face of Nature and hone the kids' ability to closely study the poem and make a list of domain-specific words.

Jonathan's Nightmare | Fiction

Jonathan's Nightmare | Fiction

Have you ever had a happy nightmare? Find out what a happy nightmare is with this piece of fiction. The worksheet prepared in compliance with CCSS grade 4 ELA has questions based on deductions and inferences from the passages.

Nothing to do | Fiction

Nothing to do | Fiction

Marcus is bored as he has nothing to do. This printable literature worksheet has a lot in store for 4th grade children. It has a new prefix and reinforces kids' expertise with finding key details and character sketch.

Going Green on Halloween | Non-fiction

Going Green on Halloween | Non-fiction

Americans splurge on Halloween celebrations and add to the country's garbage which the author dislikes. Here children attempt to support arguments with reasons or evidence and find the central message.

Putting up the Christmas Tree | Poem

Putting up the Christmas Tree | Poem

Putting up the Christmas Tree is great fun. In this cute poem, your child learns some vocabulary and bolsters their practice in alliteration and rhyming, two very important literary devices.

Easter | Fiction

Easter | Fiction

Join Janet and Christopher, as they set out on their Easter egg hunt with great expectations. There's huge fun packed in this PDF. Questions include finding specific details, the central theme and more.

Abraham Lincoln | Non-fiction

Abraham Lincoln | Non-fiction

One of the best and most popular presidents of America, Lincoln was a great hard worker and a stubbornly honest person. He is best known for his Emancipation Proclamation. The questions include an MCQ, textual evidence and more.

Clean-Up Day

Clean-Up Day

After helping Aunt Val tidy up the attic, Britta couldn’t wait to get home and start on the new books. Aunt Val had let her keep them. Accompanied by questions like ordering events, sorting, and matching, this reading comprehension for grade 4 is fun and promising.

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

Built in 1933, the Golden Gate Bridge greatly improved life and business in the area. People no longer had to travel long hours to reach work. The skills tested in this printable reading comprehension passage are finding the writer’s purpose and looking for specific details.

Summer Heat

Summer Heat

The summer is hot, and the journey feels long and trying. Relief shines through when it’s time to go swimming. This poem comprehension for 4th grade kids gets them answering questions, explaining a hyperbole, finding the elements of poetry used, and much more.

A Spooky Slumber Party

A Spooky Slumber Party

When the wailing sound comes, Grace is no longer nervous. She is brimming with courage and confidence. The questions in this reading comprehension passage pdf include finding the narrative point of view, getting insight into characters, and more.

Insect Week

Insect Week

The grasshopper hopped away, and the butterfly flew away. But thankfully, Ryan had their pictures captured in his camera so there was nothing to worry. Read "Insect Week", a thoughtful-yet-breezy reading comprehension for 4th grade, and answer the following questions.

Making Math a Breeze

Making Math a Breeze

Thanks to Aunt Angie’s super-simple technique, doing math homework is no longer hard for Blake. Having finished math, he is hoping to get some help with English, too. Explore this reading comprehension and find out the structure type and more.

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Reading Comprehension goes beyond reading the text on the page. Reading Comprehension includes finding meaning in the text and being able to summarize, repeat and apply what is read. Successful reading comprehension requires vocabulary and reading fluency. If your child cannot understand some of the words on a page, he or she will try to understand the text as a whole.

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Reading comprehension is an ability that helps visitors to understand the info they are reading. This ability is necessary for reading with purpose as well as enjoyment. The US Common Core Standards have numerous purposes associated with reading comprehension. These purposes begin in kindergarten and also boost in intricacy with each grade degree. These objectives consist of asking concerns about essential information in a message and also retelling acquainted stories. They also consist of recognizing the personalities, establishing, as well as significant events in a message.

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