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Patterns of Events is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on recognising a shared pattern across stories, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.9. 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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Patterns of Events

RL.4.9

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. What does this account give that Nell's cannot?
  2. 2. How does this account differ in focus from Nell's?
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. How is Daedalus's ending different from Athene's in the Arachne myth?
  2. 2. How is Icarus like Arachne?

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Answer key — Patterns of Events

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The whole street — fourteen households, the water height, the outcome for four families. 2. This gives times, totals and the warning system; Nell gives one night as she experienced it.
  2. 2.1. Daedalus loses what he loves and stops; Athene has the power and uses it as a punishment. 2. Both push a gift too far without heeding a warning — Icarus climbs, Arachne challenges Athene.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.