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In this study the researcher aimed to support the Arabic language teachers in first cycle level by provide a realty test to assess reading comprehension skills of their students in grade four. Two hundred students participated to build this test were have been selected randomly from 8 schools represents 40 schools from the same cycle located in Aldahirah area. A kuderrichardson formula 20 was used to uncover the reliability of the test which was .88 and again the re implementation way was used to discover the reliability which was .724 as indicated by person correlation. The difficulty coefficient of the test a ranged from .45 to .61. The result of the study concluded that grade four students in first cycle are in moderate level in reading comprehension skills depending of the mean which was 0.62. The study ended with some related recommendation. (Published abstract)