Self-Correct as You Read is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on going back over an information text to fix understanding, aligned to Common Core standard RF.4.4. 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
A ship's latitude — how far north or south it is — can be found from the height of the sun at noon. Sailors could do that for centuries.
Longitude, how far east or west, was the problem. It has no natural marker.
The solution was known in principle: compare the time on board with the time at a fixed place. The Earth turns fifteen degrees an hour, so every hour of difference is fifteen degrees of longitude.
That required a clock that stayed accurate on a rolling, salty, temperature-swinging ship. No such clock existed.
John Harrison, a carpenter, spent forty-three years building four. The fourth, finished in 1759, was the size of a large pocket watch and lost five seconds in eighty-one days at sea.
1. What is "longitude"?
2. How could sailors find their latitude?
3. What does "accurate" mean in this text?
4. How long did Harrison spend on the problem?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Lichen
A lichen is not one organism. It is a fungus and an alga living as one body.
The fungus provides the structure and holds water. The alga photosynthesises and makes sugar. Separated, the fungus starves and the alga dries out.
Because it needs no soil, a lichen can grow on bare rock, on gravestones and on the roofs of cars that have not moved for a decade.
Lichens grow extremely slowly — some crustose species less than a millimetre a year. Scientists use that rate to date rock surfaces, a method called lichenometry.
Lichens also absorb whatever is in the air. Where the air is dirty, they disappear, which makes them a living measure of pollution.
1. What does "photosynthesises" mean?
2. How slowly can a crustose lichen grow?
3. What does "absorb" mean here?
4. What two organisms make up a lichen?
LessonPrint · RF.4.4 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Self-Correct as You Read
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. How far east or west a place is. 2. From the height of the sun at noon. 3. Keeping the correct time without drifting. 4. Forty-three years.
2.1. Makes food from sunlight. 2. Less than a millimetre a year. 3. Take in from the air around it. 4. A fungus and an alga.
Questions about Self-Correct as You Read
What does the Self-Correct as You Read worksheet cover?
It practises going back over an information text to fix understanding — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on Common Core RF.4.4: Read Grade 4 text accurately, at pace, with expression, correcting yourself as you go. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Self-Correct as You Read practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4 — RF.4.4, in the Reading: Foundational Skills domain for Grade 4. The published standard reads: “Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Self-Correct as You Read is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on RF.4.4, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Self-Correct as You Read come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Self-Correct as You Read can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Self-Correct as You Read free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Self-Correct as You Read, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RF.4.4
Read Grade 4 text accurately, at pace, with expression, correcting yourself as you go.