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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.

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

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Answer key — Describe a Character in Depth

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It reads as a record of the street rather than of a person — households and numbers, not names.
  2. 2.1. Practised and precise — she set her oven four minutes back for years and had made the cake two hundred times. 2. That the village wanted the old clock back, and was willing to say so officially.

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.