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.
Set 25 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 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.
Where the Versions Meet
RL.4.7
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. Which line tells you the tide turns silently?
2. Quote the words that describe how the boats sit at low tide.
3. What would a picture of the second stanza show?
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. What would a picture of the second stanza show?
2. Which line states the poem's conclusion?
3. Quote the list of what is under the water.
LessonPrint · RL.4.7 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Where the Versions Meet
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. "Then, without a sound at all". 2. "the boats set down on their own keels". 3. Shining mud with old anchors, a bicycle and a broken chain in it.
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.