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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 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. How long did Mr Kaur run the shop?
  3. 3. How did he record debts?
  4. 4. Which sentence shows the daughter did not decide quickly?
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. What filled the hole?
  2. 2. How long did they take the hill away?
  3. 3. What do the children call it?
  4. 4. Quote the list of what is under the water.

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Answer key — Read Accurately for Meaning

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it." 2. Forty-one years. 3. In pencil, in a ledger, with settlements crossed out. 4. "She thought about it for a week."
  2. 2.1. Rain. 2. Ninety years. 3. The lake. 4. "the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane".

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