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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. When had the warning been issued?
  2. 2. How many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  3. 3. Which sentence tells you what the real dispute was about?
  4. 4. When were the houses on Mill Lane built?
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. Which line states the poem's conclusion?
  2. 2. How long did they take the hill away?
  3. 3. Quote the list of what is under the water.
  4. 4. What do the children call it?

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Answer key — Read Accurately for Meaning

Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Six that evening. 2. Eleven of the fourteen. 3. "It was about why the warning, which had been issued at six that evening, had reached some doors and not others." 4. 1840.
  2. 2.1. "A thing becomes what people make of it." 2. Ninety years. 3. "the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane". 4. The lake.

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