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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

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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. How does this account differ in focus from Nell's?
  2. 2. What does this account give that Nell's cannot?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Quarry, Filled

Stanza one: They took the hill away in carts for ninety years, and then they stopped. The hole they left filled up with rain until the rain had reached the top. Stanza two: Now people swim where men once cut. The water hides the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane. Stanza three: The children diving off the edge have never heard the word for it. They call it "the lake". They are not wrong. A thing becomes what people make of it.

  1. 1. How is its conclusion different from "Low Water"?
  2. 2. How is this poem like "Low Water"?

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Answer key — Patterns of Events

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. This gives times, totals and the warning system; Nell gives one night as she experienced it. 2. The whole street — fourteen households, the water height, the outcome for four families.
  2. 2.1. "Low Water" watches the cycle; this one argues that the meaning has changed for good. 2. Both are about water covering and uncovering things people have left behind.

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