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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. Summarise this account.
  2. 2. When had the warning been issued?
  3. 3. How many households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight?
  4. 4. This account names no individuals. What is the effect of that?
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. Summarise what happens across this poem.
  2. 2. How long did they take the hill away?
  3. 3. What do the children call it?
  4. 4. Determine a theme of this poem and support it from the text.

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Mill Lane flooded to a metre overnight, eleven of fourteen households had prepared, nobody was hurt, and the argument afterwards was about the warning. 2. Six that evening. 3. Eleven of the fourteen. 4. It reads as a record of the street rather than of a person — households and numbers, not names.
  2. 2.1. A quarry worked for ninety years filled with rain, its workings went under water, and the children who swim there call it a lake. 2. Ninety years. 3. The lake. 4. A place is what it is used for now — "A thing becomes what people make of it."

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