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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 did he record debts?
  2. 2. Summarise this story.
  3. 3. How many debts were outstanding?
  4. 4. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Daedalus and Icarus

Daedalus was the finest craftsman in the world, and King Minos kept him prisoner because of it. He and his son Icarus were shut in a tower above the sea. Daedalus watched the gulls for a summer. Then he gathered feathers, laid them in rows from short to long, and bound them with wax and thread into two pairs of wings. "Fly in the middle," he told Icarus. "Too low and the sea spray soaks the feathers. Too high and the sun softens the wax." They rose from the tower together. For a while Icarus followed exactly. Then the boy found that he could climb. He forgot the tower, the sea, the warning. He went up, and up, until the wax ran and the feathers came away one at a time and the sky let go of him. Daedalus flew on alone. He never made anything again.

  1. 1. What were the wings made from?
  2. 2. Describe Icarus in depth, using specific details from the text.
  3. 3. What was Daedalus's instruction?
  4. 4. Determine a theme of this myth and support it from the text.

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. In pencil, in a ledger, with settlements crossed out. 2. Mr Kaur ran his shop on a pencil ledger for forty-one years; his daughter inherited eleven old debts, wrote them off, and never told him. 3. Eleven, some six years old. 4. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it.
  2. 2.1. Feathers laid in rows from short to long, bound with wax and thread. 2. He begins obedient — "Icarus followed exactly" — then, discovering he can climb, forgets the tower, the sea and the warning. 3. To fly in the middle — not too low, not too high. 4. Ignoring a warning in the excitement of a new power destroys you — Icarus forgot the warning and the wax ran.

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