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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 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. How many debts were outstanding?
  2. 2. How did he record debts?
  3. 3. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
  4. 4. Determine a theme of this story and support it from the text.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Arachne

Arachne could weave. Shepherds left their flocks to watch her hands. She was asked once whether the goddess Athene had taught her. "Nobody taught me," she said. "Let Athene weave against me and we shall see who learned from whom." An old woman at the edge of the crowd advised her to take it back. Arachne laughed at her. The old woman straightened up and was Athene. They wove for a day. Athene's cloth showed the gods in glory. Arachne's showed the gods behaving badly, and it was — everyone could see it — the better work. Athene tore it to pieces. Then she touched Arachne's forehead and made her into a spider, so that she could go on weaving for ever and nobody would ever look.

  1. 1. Summarise this myth.
  2. 2. What does Athene's response to losing tell you about her?
  3. 3. Whose cloth was better?
  4. 4. What was Arachne famous for?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Eleven, some six years old. 2. In pencil, in a ledger, with settlements crossed out. 3. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it. 4. Ending something kindly can mean saying nothing — she tore out the pages and "never told him".
  2. 2.1. Arachne claimed nobody taught her to weave, out-wove Athene in a contest, and was turned into a spider for it. 2. She cannot accept being beaten — she destroys the cloth and punishes the weaver rather than admitting it. 3. Arachne's — everyone could see it. 4. Weaving — shepherds left their flocks to watch her.

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