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Information in Other Forms is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on taking meaning from a visual or spoken presentation, aligned to Common Core standard SL.4.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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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Information in Other Forms

SL.4.2

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Accidental Photograph

In 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen was working with a covered tube in a darkened room when he noticed a screen across the laboratory glowing. Something was passing through the cover and crossing the room. He did not know what it was, so he called it X — the unknown. He spent seven weeks alone in the laboratory testing it. He put wood, rubber and metal in the way. Metal stopped it; the rest did not. Then he asked his wife to put her hand between the tube and a photographic plate. The picture showed the bones of her hand and her wedding ring. Within a year, X-rays were being used in hospitals. Röntgen refused to patent them.

  1. 1. How would a reproduction of the first X-ray help this text?
  2. 2. What overall structure does this text use?
  3. 3. What would a diagram of Röntgen's experiment need to show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Clocks Agree

Until the 1840s, every British town kept its own time, set by the sun. Noon in Bristol was about ten minutes after noon in London. That was no problem while the fastest thing on the road was a horse. The railways changed it. A timetable cannot work if every station measures noon differently, and trains sharing a track need to agree about when. So the railway companies imposed London time on their whole network. People called it railway time. Some towns kept two minute hands on the town clock for years, one local and one railway. In 1880 Parliament made a single time legal across the country. The sun had been overruled by the timetable.

  1. 1. What would an illustration of a two-handed town clock convey?
  2. 2. How would a map of British noon times help this text?
  3. 3. What overall structure does this text use?

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Answer key — Information in Other Forms

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It would show what Röntgen actually saw: bones and a wedding ring. 2. Chronology, from the accidental glow to hospital use within a year. 3. The covered tube, the room, the glowing screen across it, and the materials placed in the way.
  2. 2.1. That both times were kept at once for years, which is how contested the change was. 2. It would show the east-to-west spread of local noons that the railways had to abolish. 3. Chronology with cause and effect — the old system, why it stopped working, and what replaced it.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.4.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.