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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.

The Clock That Was Wrong

The church clock in our village had been four minutes fast for thirty years. Everybody knew. The bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it. My grandmother set her oven by it, four minutes back. Then the council paid a specialist to come and correct it. He was there two days. When he left, the clock was exact. Within a month, three people had missed the bus, the choir arrived late twice, and my grandmother burned a cake she had made two hundred times. The vicar wrote to the council. In March they set it four minutes fast again.

  1. 1. How long had the clock been four minutes fast?
  2. 2. What happened in March?
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this story and support it from the text.
  4. 4. Who was paid to correct it?
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 do the children call it?
  2. 2. What filled the hole?
  3. 3. Summarise what happens across this poem.
  4. 4. How long did they take the hill away?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Thirty years. 2. They set it four minutes fast again. 3. A shared mistake everybody has adapted to can be more useful than being right — correcting the clock broke the timetable. 4. A specialist, paid by the council.
  2. 2.1. The lake. 2. Rain. 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. Ninety years.

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