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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 Water Came Up (told by Nell)

I was the one who said it was nothing. The river had been over the path before. Twice that winter. Both times it went down by morning, so when Dad started moving the boxes upstairs I told him he was making a fuss. I went to bed. At two o'clock I woke because my slippers were floating. Everything after that is in pieces. Dad on the stairs with the cat. Water the colour of tea. The sound the fridge made when it went over. We sat on the landing until it got light. Nobody said anything about the boxes. That was worse than if they had.

  1. 1. How many times had the river been over the path that winter?
  2. 2. Quote the words that show Nell's judgement at the start.
  3. 3. What woke Nell at two o'clock?
  4. 4. Which sentence shows Nell's memory of the night is incomplete?
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. What do the children call it?
  3. 3. How long did they take the hill away?
  4. 4. Which line states the poem's conclusion?

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Answer key — Read Accurately for Meaning

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Twice. 2. "I was the one who said it was nothing." 3. Her slippers were floating. 4. "Everything after that is in pieces."
  2. 2.1. Rain. 2. The lake. 3. Ninety years. 4. "A thing becomes what people make of it."

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