Electrical Safety Reading

4th Grade ScienceConductors and Insulators5 pages

About this worksheet

A four-paragraph reading on staying safe with electricity opens this 5-page 4th grade science and reading worksheet. It covers conductors and insulators, water and the human body as conductors, and a set of safety rules. Nine questions follow: four multiple choice, a true or false table with evidence from the text, and four written answers about a hair dryer near a bath, a kite near power lines, a fork in an outlet and a frayed cord. Page 5 is the answer key. It supports Common Core RI.4.1 and RI.4.4.

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Electrical Safety Reading: Conductors and Insulators - page 1
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Curriculum objectives covered

RI.4.1

“Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”

Question 5 asks for a phrase from the text as proof, and questions 6 to 9 ask students to use facts from the passage in their answers.

RI.4.4

“Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.”

Question 3 asks what the word frayed means in the fourth paragraph.

What's inside this worksheet

The Passage

Four paragraphs with two photos. They explain conductors, insulators, why the human body and water conduct electricity, and safety rules such as drying hands and staying away from fallen wires. The fourth paragraph starts page 2.

Retrieve the Facts

Four multiple-choice questions, including why wires inside cords are metal and what frayed means. Question 5 is a true or false table in which students write a phrase from the text as proof.

Think and Infer

Three written questions ask why a plugged-in hair dryer is dangerous near a bathtub, why you should never fly a kite near overhead power lines and why a metal fork in an outlet could shock someone.

Evaluate and Respond

Question 9 asks students to convince a younger cousin not to use a cord with cracked plastic and bare copper wire, using at least two facts from the passage.

Answer key

The answer letters, evidence quotes for the true or false table and a model response for each written question, with a sample answer for question 9.

How teachers use it

Underline first

Have students underline the sentence about the human body being a conductor before they start. Question 2 depends on it.

Safety week

Read the fourth paragraph aloud and turn its rules into a classroom poster. It fits well beside a school talk on electrical safety.

Model the evidence

Do question 5 together. Students find the exact phrase and copy it into the evidence box before they try questions 6 to 9 alone.

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