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Where the Versions Meet is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on identifying the lines a performance must reflect, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.7. 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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Where the Versions Meet

RL.4.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Clock That Was Wrong

The church clock in our village had been four minutes fast for thirty years. Everybody knew. The bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it. My grandmother set her oven by it, four minutes back. Then the council paid a specialist to come and correct it. He was there two days. When he left, the clock was exact. Within a month, three people had missed the bus, the choir arrived late twice, and my grandmother burned a cake she had made two hundred times. The vicar wrote to the council. In March they set it four minutes fast again.

  1. 1. Quote the words that show how deeply the village had adapted.
  2. 2. Which sentence lists what went wrong after the correction?
  3. 3. Which moment would an illustration of this story show?
2.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. Which moment would an illustration of this story show?
  2. 2. Which sentence shows the daughter did not decide quickly?
  3. 3. Quote the words that show the village trusted the ledger.

LessonPrint · RL.4.7 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Where the Versions Meet

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "The bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it." 2. "three people had missed the bus, the choir arrived late twice, and my grandmother burned a cake she had made two hundred times". 3. The specialist on a ladder at the church clock face.
  2. 2.1. The daughter at the counter with the open ledger and the new card machine. 2. "She thought about it for a week." 3. "Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it."

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.