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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 students 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.

The Lost Ledger

Mr. Kaur ran the store on the corner for forty-one years and never used a cash register. 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, totaling more than she took in a two weeks. 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. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
  2. 2. What does Mr. Kaur's ledger tell you about how he ran the store?
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this story and support it from the text.
  4. 4. Summarize this story.
2.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 meter 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 afterward, 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. What is this account most concerned with?
  2. 2. When were the houses on Mill Lane built?
  3. 3. How many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  4. 4. Summarize this account.

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it. 2. On trust — pencil, no cash register, no queries in forty-one years. 3. Ending something kindly can mean saying nothing — she tore out the pages and "never told him." 4. Mr. Kaur ran his store on a pencil ledger for forty-one years; his daughter inherited eleven old debts, wrote them off, and never told him.
  2. 2.1. Whether the warning system worked, not the flood itself. 2. 1840. 3. Eleven of the fourteen. 4. Mill Lane flooded to a meter overnight, eleven of fourteen households had prepared, nobody was hurt, and the argument afterward was about the warning.

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