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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.

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. Which sentence tells you Icarus stopped thinking about the warning?
  2. 2. What were the wings made from?
  3. 3. Why did King Minos keep Daedalus prisoner?
  4. 4. Quote the detail that shows how carefully Daedalus prepared.
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. Quote the words that describe how the boats sit at low tide.
  2. 2. Which line tells you the tide turns silently?
  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 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "He forgot the tower, the sea, the warning." 2. Feathers laid in rows from short to long, bound with wax and thread. 3. Because he was the finest craftsman in the world. 4. "Daedalus watched the gulls for a summer."
  2. 2.1. "the boats set down on their own keels". 2. "Then, without a sound at all". 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.