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Explicit and Inferred is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on separating what a text states from what it implies, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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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Explicit and Inferred

RL.4.1

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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. Who was the old woman at the edge of the crowd?
  2. 2. What was Arachne famous for?
  3. 3. Why did Athene tear the cloth before transforming Arachne?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Daedalus and Icarus

Daedalus was the finest craftsman in the world, and King Minos kept him prisoner because of it. He and his son Icarus were shut in a tower above the sea. Daedalus watched the gulls for a summer. Then he gathered feathers, laid them in rows from short to long, and bound them with wax and thread into two pairs of wings. "Fly in the middle," he told Icarus. "Too low and the sea spray soaks the feathers. Too high and the sun softens the wax." They rose from the tower together. For a while Icarus followed exactly. Then the boy found that he could climb. He forgot the tower, the sea, the warning. He went up, and up, until the wax ran and the feathers came away one at a time and the sky let go of him. Daedalus flew on alone. He never made anything again.

  1. 1. Why does the text say Daedalus never made anything again?
  2. 2. What were the wings made from?
  3. 3. Why did King Minos keep Daedalus prisoner?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The goddess Athene. 2. Weaving — shepherds left their flocks to watch her. 3. Because the cloth proved Arachne was better, and Athene could not leave that standing.
  2. 2.1. Because his craft was what killed his son, so he could not go back to it. 2. Feathers laid in rows from short to long, bound with wax and thread. 3. Because he was the finest craftsman in the world.

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Back up both what the text says and what it implies with details.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.