Riddle Me This!
A fun Grade 4 ELA worksheet to practice reading comprehension and critical thinking through riddles.
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Riddle Me This!
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Read each riddle carefully and try to guess the answer. Write your answer on the line provided.
1. I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?
2. What has to be broken before you can use it?
3. What is full of holes but still holds water?
4. What question can you never answer yes to?
5. What makes a good riddle? Explain in your own words.
6. Which of these is NOT usually a characteristic of a riddle?
It uses figurative language.
It gives a direct answer.
It makes you think creatively.
It describes something indirectly.
7. Write your own riddle! Think of an object or idea and describe it without naming it. Then, write the answer below your riddle.
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