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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.

Low Water

Stanza one: Twice a day the sea walks out and leaves the harbour standing, the boats set down on their own keels like birds that have stopped landing. Stanza two: The mud shines. Old anchors show, a bicycle, a broken chain, the whole forgotten underneath made briefly plain. Stanza three: Then, without a sound at all, it turns and starts to come. The bicycle goes under first. The harbour lifts. The boats go dumb.

  1. 1. Why does the bicycle go under first?
  2. 2. What goes under first when the tide turns?
  3. 3. How often does the sea go out?
2.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. Why did Athene tear the cloth before transforming Arachne?
  3. 3. Whose cloth was better?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Because it lies lowest in the harbour, so the returning water reaches it first. 2. The bicycle. 3. Twice a day.
  2. 2.1. The goddess Athene. 2. Because the cloth proved Arachne was better, and Athene could not leave that standing. 3. Arachne's — everyone could see it.

More practice for RL.4.1

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

Teaching this next? Inferences and the Evidence for Them is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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