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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 Lost Ledger

Mr Kaur ran the shop on the corner for forty-one years and never used a till roll. 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, totalling more than she took in a fortnight. 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.

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?

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Answer key — Setting and Event in Depth

Set 6. 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 shopkeeper knows everyone.
  2. 2.1. 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.

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