Describe a Character in Depth is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on building a character description from specific details, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 22 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 22 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

Describe a Character in Depth

RL.4.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Clock That Was Wrong

The church clock in our village had been four minutes fast for thirty years. Everybody knew. The bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it. My grandmother set her oven by it, four minutes back. Then the council paid a specialist to come and correct it. He was there two days. When he left, the clock was exact. Within a month, three people had missed the bus, the choir arrived late twice, and my grandmother burned a cake she had made two hundred times. The vicar wrote to the council. In March they set it four minutes fast again.

1. What does the vicar's letter tell you about the village's view?
2. Describe the grandmother from the details given.

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lost Ledger

Mr Kaur ran the shop on the corner for forty-one years and never used a till roll. He kept a ledger. Every debt in the village was in it, in pencil, and every settlement crossed out. Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it. When he retired he handed the ledger to his daughter, who was taking over. She found eleven debts outstanding, some six years old, totalling more than she took in a fortnight. She thought about it for a week. Then she went through the book, tore out those pages, and started a new one with a card machine on the counter. She never told him. He never asked.

1. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
2. What does Mr Kaur's ledger tell you about how he ran the shop?

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Answer key — Describe a Character in Depth

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. That the village wanted the old clock back, and was willing to say so officially. 2. Practised and precise — she set her oven four minutes back for years and had made the cake two hundred times.
2.1. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it. 2. On trust — pencil, no till roll, no queries in forty-one years.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.