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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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Describe a Character in Depth

RL.4.3

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Arachne

Arachne could weave. Shepherds left their flocks to watch her hands. She was asked once whether the goddess Athene had taught her. "Nobody taught me," she said. "Let Athene weave against me and we shall see who learned from whom." An old woman at the edge of the crowd advised her to take it back. Arachne laughed at her. The old woman straightened up and was Athene. They wove for a day. Athene's cloth showed the gods in glory. Arachne's showed the gods behaving badly, and it was — everyone could see it — the better work. Athene tore it to pieces. Then she touched Arachne's forehead and made her into a spider, so that she could go on weaving for ever and nobody would ever look.

  1. 1. Describe Arachne in depth, using specific details from the text.
  2. 2. What does Athene's response to losing tell you about her?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Mill Lane, February

The houses on Mill Lane were built in 1840, close to the water because the mill was the work. On the night of the flood, eleven of the fourteen households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight. Three had not. The water rose fastest between one and three in the morning. It reached a metre in the lowest houses. By dawn the fire service had brought everyone out. Nobody was hurt. Four families were out of their homes until August. At the meeting afterwards, the argument was not about the river. It was about why the warning, which had been issued at six that evening, had reached some doors and not others.

  1. 1. This account names no individuals. What is the effect of that?

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Answer key — Describe a Character in Depth

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Supremely skilled and unwilling to defer — she claims nobody taught her, challenges a goddess, and laughs at a warning. 2. She cannot accept being beaten — she destroys the cloth and punishes the weaver rather than admitting it.
  2. 2.1. It reads as a record of the street rather than of a person — households and numbers, not names.

More practice for RL.4.3

Describe a character or setting in depth, using specific lines from the text.

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