Fill-in-the-blank worksheet · Logic & Puzzles
Tricky riddles: fill in the blanks · Grades 4–5
Read 8 sentences about tricky riddles and write the missing word in each, choosing from a word bank with a few extra words. Practices reading for meaning and topic vocabulary.
- Grades 4–5 · ages 9 to 11
- Hard
- 10 to 15 minutes
- 1 page
- Free
The answer key is a separate page for grown-ups. Sign in to download it.
The word bank and sentences
Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line. Some words are not used.
- Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
- tomorrow · coin · breath · cold · age · word · map
- Silence · Light · ton
- 1 What can you catch but not throw? A ____.
- 2 What goes up but never comes down? Your ____.
- 3 What breaks when you say its name? ____.
- 4 What has a head and a tail but no body? A ____.
- 5 What can you keep after giving it to someone? Your ____.
- 6 What can fill a room but takes up no space? ____.
- 7 Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. I am a ____.
- 8 What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish? A
What your child practices
Your child practices reading for meaning and topic vocabulary. The skill is “Deduction from clues”: combine clues to eliminate possibilities.
- Grades and ages
- Grades 4–5, ages 9 to 11
- Time
- About 10 to 15 minutes
- Subject
- Logic & Puzzles
- Level
- Hard for Grades 4–5
- Answer key
- Yes, for grown-ups who sign in
- Printing
- 1 page, US Letter or A4, low-ink option
- Updated
How to use it
Try the first question together so the format is clear. Then let your child work through the rest, showing their thinking on the page. It is one of the harder sheets for Grades 4–5, best once the basics of the skill are secure.
An answer key comes with it as a separate page that grown-ups download after signing in.
Tip for grown-ups: Read each sentence aloud with a hum for the blank, then try each word bank word in it.
Done on paper? A grown-up can record it on the child's page in PlayOwl; downloading alone doesn't count as finished.
Logic & Puzzles · Grades 4–5
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