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Setting and Event in Depth is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on describing a setting or event from the text's own detail, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.3. 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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Setting and Event in Depth

RL.4.3

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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. How does the setting shape what happens?
  2. 2. What happened between Nell going to bed and sitting on the landing?
2.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. Put these in order: the harbour lifts, the mud shines, the sea walks out.
  2. 2. Where is this poem set?

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Answer key — Setting and Event in Depth

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A house beside a river that had flooded the path twice already that winter. 2. She woke at two to floating slippers, saw her father on the stairs with the cat, and heard the fridge go over.
  2. 2.1. The sea walks out, the mud shines, the harbour lifts. 2. A tidal harbour that empties twice a day.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.