4th Grade Read and Interpret Graphs worksheets

About this worksheet

Reading a graph is a different skill from making one: it asks a child to translate a picture into a number, and then to reason with several numbers at once. This worksheet gives a brand new bar graph or picture graph for every question, covering topics like books read, minutes of recess, stickers collected by a team, and shells found on a beach walk. Some questions ask your child to read a single value straight off the graph. Others ask for a comparison, how many more one category has than another, which means finding two values and subtracting them.

A few ask for the total shown across every category, which means adding every value on the graph, and a few ask which category has the most or the fewest, which means scanning every bar or row before answering. Picture graphs add one more step: each symbol can stand for more than one item, so your child has to multiply the number of symbols by the key before answering. Remind your child to find the exact label named in the question first, then read carefully before doing any math.

What your child will learn

• Read a value from a bar graph
• Read a value from a picture graph with a scaled key
• Compare two categories on a graph
• Find the total shown on a graph
• Identify the category with the most or the fewest