What Each Account Gives is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on comparing the focus and information of two accounts, aligned to Common Core standard RI.4.6. 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
What Each Account Gives
RI.4.6
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.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. How does this account differ in focus from Nell's?
2. Is this written by somebody who was there? How can you tell?
3. What does this account give that Nell's cannot?
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. This is told in the first person. What can Nell not tell us?
2. How does this account of the flood differ from a report of it?
3. How is Nell like Icarus?
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Answer key — What Each Account Gives
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. This gives times, totals and the warning system; Nell gives one night as she experienced it. 2. No — it reports Mill Lane from outside, giving the fourteen households and the metre of water rather than any feelings. 3. The whole street — fourteen households, the water height, the outcome for four families.
2.1. What her father was thinking, or anything that happened while she was asleep. 2. It gives one person's feelings and gaps; a report would give the facts from outside. 3. Both ignore a caution from somebody older who turns out to have been right.
Questions about What Each Account Gives
What does the What Each Account Gives worksheet cover?
It practises comparing the focus and information of two accounts — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on Common Core RI.4.6: Compare an eyewitness account with a second-hand one. 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 What Each Account Gives practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.6 — RI.4.6, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 4. The published standard reads: “Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What Each Account Gives is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on RI.4.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What Each Account Gives 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 What Each Account Gives can I print?
25 versions, of which 24 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is What Each Account Gives free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What Each Account Gives, 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 RI.4.6
Compare an eyewitness account with a second-hand one.