Draw Inferences is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on answering something the text implies, aligned to Common Core standard RI.4.1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 22 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.
22 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.
Draw Inferences
RI.4.1
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Lichen
A lichen is not one organism. It is a fungus and an alga living as one body.
The fungus provides the structure and holds water. The alga photosynthesises and makes sugar. Separated, the fungus starves and the alga dries out.
Because it needs no soil, a lichen can grow on bare rock, on gravestones and on the roofs of cars that have not moved for a decade.
Lichens grow extremely slowly — some crustose species less than a millimetre a year. Scientists use that rate to date rock surfaces, a method called lichenometry.
Lichens also absorb whatever is in the air. Where the air is dirty, they disappear, which makes them a living measure of pollution.
1. Why is a slow growth rate useful for dating rock?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
What a Beaver Dam Does
A beaver does not build a dam for shelter. It builds one to make a pond, and it lives in a lodge in the pond.
The dam raises the water so the lodge entrance stays underwater. A predator that cannot swim cannot get in.
But the pond does far more than protect one family. Behind a dam, water slows, and slow water drops the silt it carries. Over years this builds rich wet ground.
That ground holds water in a drought and holds it back in a flood. It supports plants, insects, amphibians and birds that were not there before.
Where beavers have been reintroduced, the number of species in a valley typically rises within five years.
1. Why does the lodge entrance need to be underwater?
LessonPrint · RI.4.1 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Draw Inferences
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Because if you know how fast it grows, its size tells you how long the rock has been exposed.
2.1. So that a predator that cannot swim cannot reach it.
Questions about Draw Inferences
What does the Draw Inferences worksheet cover?
It practises answering something the text implies — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on Common Core RI.4.1: Support what the text states and what it implies with examples from it. 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 Draw Inferences practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 — RI.4.1, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 4. The published standard reads: “Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Draw Inferences is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on RI.4.1, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Draw Inferences 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 Draw Inferences can I print?
25 versions, of which 22 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 Draw Inferences free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Draw Inferences, 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.4.1
Support what the text states and what it implies with examples from it.