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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.

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. Who was the old woman at the edge of the crowd?
  3. 3. Describe Arachne in depth, using specific details from the text.
  4. 4. Determine a theme of this myth and support it from the text.
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 filled the hole?
  2. 2. How long did they take the hill away?
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this poem and support it from the text.
  4. 4. Summarise what happens across this poem.

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Arachne claimed nobody taught her to weave, out-wove Athene in a contest, and was turned into a spider for it. 2. The goddess Athene. 3. Supremely skilled and unwilling to defer — she claims nobody taught her, challenges a goddess, and laughs at a warning. 4. Being right is not protection against power — Arachne's work was better and she was punished for it.
  2. 2.1. Rain. 2. Ninety years. 3. A place is what it is used for now — "A thing becomes what people make of it." 4. A quarry worked for ninety years filled with rain, its workings went under water, and the children who swim there call it a 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.