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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.

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. Why did the council change it back rather than retrain the village?
  2. 2. What happened in March?
  3. 3. Who was paid to correct it?
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. How many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  2. 2. When were the houses on Mill Lane built?
  3. 3. When had the warning been issued?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Because thirty years of arrangements were built on the fast clock, and it was easier to move the clock. 2. They set it four minutes fast again. 3. A specialist, paid by the council.
  2. 2.1. Eleven of the fourteen. 2. 1840. 3. Six that evening.

More practice for RL.4.1

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.