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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.

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. What was Daedalus's instruction?
  3. 3. Why did King Minos keep Daedalus prisoner?
  4. 4. What do Daedalus's actions after the fall tell you about him?
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. What does Mr Kaur's ledger tell you about how he ran the shop?
  3. 3. Describe the daughter in depth, using details from the text.
  4. 4. How did he record debts?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 4 Story

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Feathers laid in rows from short to long, bound with wax and thread. 2. To fly in the middle — not too low, not too high. 3. Because he was the finest craftsman in the world. 4. "He never made anything again" — his skill was what cost him his son, and he gave it up.
  2. 2.1. Ending something kindly can mean saying nothing — she tore out the pages and "never told him". 2. On trust — pencil, no till roll, no queries in forty-one years. 3. Deliberate and private — she thinks for a week, tears out the pages, installs a card machine, and never mentions it. 4. In pencil, in a ledger, with settlements crossed out.

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