Skip to content
LessonPrint

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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 14 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per student

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two students have the same paper in front of them.

Setting and Event in Depth

RL.4.3

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lost Ledger

Mr. Kaur ran the store on the corner for forty-one years and never used a cash register. 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, totaling more than she took in a two weeks. 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. What happened between the daughter finding the debts and starting the new book?
  2. 2. How does the village setting matter?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Low Water

Stanza one: Twice a day the sea walks out and leaves the harbor 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 harbor lifts. The boats go dumb.

  1. 1. Where is this poem set?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the harbor lifts, the mud shines, the sea walks out.

LessonPrint · RL.4.3 · Set 14 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Setting and Event in Depth

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. She thought about it for a week and tore out the pages. 2. A ledger run on trust only works where the storekeeper knows everyone.
  2. 2.1. A tidal harbor that empties twice a day. 2. The sea walks out, the mud shines, the harbor lifts.

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