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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.

Low Water

Stanza one: Twice a day the sea walks out and leaves the harbour standing, the boats set down on their own keels like birds that have stopped landing. Stanza two: The mud shines. Old anchors show, a bicycle, a broken chain, the whole forgotten underneath made briefly plain. Stanza three: Then, without a sound at all, it turns and starts to come. The bicycle goes under first. The harbour lifts. The boats go dumb.

  1. 1. Summarise what happens across this poem.
  2. 2. What goes under first when the tide turns?
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this poem and support it from the text.
  4. 4. What three things are showing in the mud?
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. Determine a theme of this poem and support it from the text.
  2. 2. How long did they take the hill away?
  3. 3. What filled the hole?
  4. 4. What do the children call it?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The tide goes out twice a day and grounds the boats, reveals the rubbish in the mud, then returns silently and lifts the harbour. 2. The bicycle. 3. What is hidden is only briefly visible — "the whole forgotten underneath made briefly plain". 4. Old anchors, a bicycle and a broken chain.
  2. 2.1. A place is what it is used for now — "A thing becomes what people make of it." 2. Ninety years. 3. Rain. 4. The lake.

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