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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.

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. Quote the words that show how deeply the village had adapted.
  2. 2. Which sentence lists what went wrong after the correction?
  3. 3. Who was paid to correct it?
  4. 4. How long had the clock been four minutes fast?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Low Water

Stanza one: Twice a day the sea walks out and leaves the harbour standing, the boats set down on their own keels like birds that have stopped landing. Stanza two: The mud shines. Old anchors show, a bicycle, a broken chain, the whole forgotten underneath made briefly plain. Stanza three: Then, without a sound at all, it turns and starts to come. The bicycle goes under first. The harbour lifts. The boats go dumb.

  1. 1. Which line tells you the tide turns silently?
  2. 2. Quote the words that describe how the boats sit at low tide.
  3. 3. What goes under first when the tide turns?
  4. 4. How often does the sea go out?

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Answer key — Read Accurately for Meaning

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "The bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it." 2. "three people had missed the bus, the choir arrived late twice, and my grandmother burned a cake she had made two hundred times". 3. A specialist, paid by the council. 4. Thirty years.
  2. 2.1. "Then, without a sound at all". 2. "the boats set down on their own keels". 3. The bicycle. 4. Twice a day.

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