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Refer to Details and Examples is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on supporting an answer with a specific example, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with 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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Refer to Details and Examples

RL.4.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Low Water

Stanza one: Twice a day the sea walks out and leaves the harbour standing, the boats set down on their own keels like birds that have stopped landing. Stanza two: The mud shines. Old anchors show, a bicycle, a broken chain, the whole forgotten underneath made briefly plain. Stanza three: Then, without a sound at all, it turns and starts to come. The bicycle goes under first. The harbour lifts. The boats go dumb.

  1. 1. Which line tells you the tide turns silently?
  2. 2. Quote the words that describe how the boats sit at low tide.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Water Came Up (told by Nell)

I was the one who said it was nothing. The river had been over the path before. Twice that winter. Both times it went down by morning, so when Dad started moving the boxes upstairs I told him he was making a fuss. I went to bed. At two o'clock I woke because my slippers were floating. Everything after that is in pieces. Dad on the stairs with the cat. Water the colour of tea. The sound the fridge made when it went over. We sat on the landing until it got light. Nobody said anything about the boxes. That was worse than if they had.

  1. 1. Quote the words that show Nell's judgement at the start.
  2. 2. Which sentence shows Nell's memory of the night is incomplete?

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Answer key — Refer to Details and Examples

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "Then, without a sound at all". 2. "the boats set down on their own keels".
  2. 2.1. "I was the one who said it was nothing." 2. "Everything after that is in pieces."

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.