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Reading a Grade 4 Story is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on reading a whole Grade 4 text and answering across it, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.10. 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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Reading a Grade 4 Story

RL.4.10

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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. This account names no individuals. What is the effect of that?
  3. 3. How many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  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. How long did they take the hill away?
  2. 2. What do the children call it?
  3. 3. Summarise what happens across this poem.
  4. 4. What filled the hole?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Six that evening. 2. It reads as a record of the street rather than of a person — households and numbers, not names. 3. Eleven of the fourteen. 4. 1840.
  2. 2.1. Ninety years. 2. The lake. 3. A quarry worked for ninety years filled with rain, its workings went under water, and the children who swim there call it a lake. 4. Rain.

Questions about Reading a Grade 4 Story

What does the Reading a Grade 4 Story worksheet cover?

It practises reading a whole Grade 4 text and answering across it — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on Common Core RL.4.10: Read and understand Grade 4-5 stories, plays and poems by the year's end. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.

Which Common Core standard does Reading a Grade 4 Story practise?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10 — RL.4.10, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 4. The published standard reads: “By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.

What age or grade is this worksheet for?

Reading a Grade 4 Story is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on RL.4.10, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.

Does Reading a Grade 4 Story come with an answer key?

Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.

How many different versions of Reading a Grade 4 Story can I print?

25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.

Is Reading a Grade 4 Story free to print and photocopy?

Yes. Reading a Grade 4 Story, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.

Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.4.10?

Yes — “Reading Grade 4 Literature” is a 40-minute Grade 4 plan for RL.4.10, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Reading a Grade 4 Story is the practice that follows it.

More practice for RL.4.10

Read and understand Grade 4-5 stories, plays and poems by the year's end.

Teaching this next? Reading Grade 4 Literature is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Grade 4 worksheets

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.