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Read Accurately for Meaning is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on reading a Grade 4 text closely enough to cite it, aligned to Common Core standard RF.4.4. 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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Read Accurately for Meaning

RF.4.4

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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 many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  2. 2. When were the houses on Mill Lane built?
  3. 3. Quote the words that state how high the water reached.
  4. 4. Which sentence tells you what the real dispute was about?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lost Ledger

Mr Kaur ran the shop on the corner for forty-one years and never used a till roll. He kept a ledger. Every debt in the village was in it, in pencil, and every settlement crossed out. Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it. When he retired he handed the ledger to his daughter, who was taking over. She found eleven debts outstanding, some six years old, totalling more than she took in a fortnight. She thought about it for a week. Then she went through the book, tore out those pages, and started a new one with a card machine on the counter. She never told him. He never asked.

  1. 1. Quote the words that show the village trusted the ledger.
  2. 2. Which sentence shows the daughter did not decide quickly?
  3. 3. How many debts were outstanding?
  4. 4. How did he record debts?

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Answer key — Read Accurately for Meaning

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Eleven of the fourteen. 2. 1840. 3. "It reached a metre in the lowest houses." 4. "It was about why the warning, which had been issued at six that evening, had reached some doors and not others."
  2. 2.1. "Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it." 2. "She thought about it for a week." 3. Eleven, some six years old. 4. In pencil, in a ledger, with settlements crossed out.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.4.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.