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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 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 filled the hole?
  2. 2. What do the children call it?
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this poem and support it from the text.
  4. 4. How long did they take the hill away?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lost Ledger

Mr Kaur ran the shop on the corner for forty-one years and never used a till roll. 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, totalling more than she took in a fortnight. 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. Determine a theme of this story and support it from the text.
  2. 2. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
  3. 3. How long did Mr Kaur run the shop?
  4. 4. How many debts were outstanding?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Rain. 2. The lake. 3. A place is what it is used for now — "A thing becomes what people make of it." 4. Ninety years.
  2. 2.1. Ending something kindly can mean saying nothing — she tore out the pages and "never told him". 2. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it. 3. Forty-one years. 4. Eleven, some six years old.

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