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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

NameDate

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. Put these in order: the harbour lifts, the mud shines, the sea walks out.
  2. 2. Where is this poem set?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Mill Lane, February

The houses on Mill Lane were built in 1840, close to the water because the mill was the work. On the night of the flood, eleven of the fourteen households had moved possessions upstairs by midnight. Three had not. The water rose fastest between one and three in the morning. It reached a metre in the lowest houses. By dawn the fire service had brought everyone out. Nobody was hurt. Four families were out of their homes until August. At the meeting afterwards, the argument was not about the river. It was about why the warning, which had been issued at six that evening, had reached some doors and not others.

  1. 1. Why does the account begin with the date the houses were built?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the fire service brings everyone out, the warning is issued, the water rises fastest.

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Answer key — Setting and Event in Depth

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The sea walks out, the mud shines, the harbour lifts. 2. A tidal harbour that empties twice a day.
  2. 2.1. To explain why they are close to the water — the mill was the work. 2. The warning is issued, the water rises fastest, the fire service brings everyone out.

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