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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. Which moment would an illustration of this story show?
  2. 2. Which sentence lists what went wrong after the correction?
  3. 3. Quote the words that show how deeply the village had adapted.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Quarry, Filled

Stanza one: They took the hill away in carts for ninety years, and then they stopped. The hole they left filled up with rain until the rain had reached the top. Stanza two: Now people swim where men once cut. The water hides the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane. Stanza three: The children diving off the edge have never heard the word for it. They call it "the lake". They are not wrong. A thing becomes what people make of it.

  1. 1. What would a picture of the second stanza show?
  2. 2. Which line states the poem's conclusion?
  3. 3. Quote the list of what is under the water.

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Answer key — Where the Versions Meet

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The specialist on a ladder at the church clock face. 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 bus timetable was written around it. Weddings started on it."
  2. 2.1. Swimmers above a submerged ledge, crane, tracks and shed. 2. "A thing becomes what people make of it." 3. "the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane".

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