Explicit and Inferred is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on separating what a text states from what it implies, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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.
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. Why did the council change it back rather than retrain the village?
2. How long had the clock been four minutes fast?
3. What happened in March?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Arachne
Arachne could weave. Shepherds left their flocks to watch her hands.
She was asked once whether the goddess Athene had taught her. "Nobody taught me," she said. "Let Athene weave against me and we shall see who learned from whom."
An old woman at the edge of the crowd advised her to take it back. Arachne laughed at her. The old woman straightened up and was Athene.
They wove for a day. Athene's cloth showed the gods in glory. Arachne's showed the gods behaving badly, and it was — everyone could see it — the better work.
Athene tore it to pieces. Then she touched Arachne's forehead and made her into a spider, so that she could go on weaving for ever and nobody would ever look.
1. Whose cloth was better?
2. What was Arachne famous for?
3. Who was the old woman at the edge of the crowd?
LessonPrint · RL.4.1 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Explicit and Inferred
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Because thirty years of arrangements were built on the fast clock, and it was easier to move the clock. 2. Thirty years. 3. They set it four minutes fast again.
2.1. Arachne's — everyone could see it. 2. Weaving — shepherds left their flocks to watch her. 3. The goddess Athene.
Questions about Explicit and Inferred
What does the Explicit and Inferred worksheet cover?
It practises separating what a text states from what it implies — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on Common Core RL.4.1: Back up both what the text says and what it implies with details. 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 Explicit and Inferred practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 — RL.4.1, in the Reading: Literature 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?
Explicit and Inferred is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on RL.4.1, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Explicit and Inferred 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 Explicit and Inferred can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Explicit and Inferred free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Explicit and Inferred, 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.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.4.1?
Yes — “Inferences and the Evidence for Them” is a 40-minute Grade 4 plan for RL.4.1, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Explicit and Inferred is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RL.4.1
Back up both what the text says and what it implies with details.