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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

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

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

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Answer key — Refer to Details and Examples

Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "Everything after that is in pieces." 2. "I was the one who said it was nothing."
  2. 2.1. "An old woman at the edge of the crowd advised her to take it back." 2. "Shepherds left their flocks to watch her hands."

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