Add a Visual Display is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on choosing where a visual would emphasise a detail, aligned to Common Core standard SL.3.5. 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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.
Add a Visual Display
SL.3.5
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Why Bread Rises
Yeast is alive. It is a fungus, and each grain of dried yeast holds millions of cells waiting for water.
Add warm water and the cells wake up. They begin to feed on the sugars in the flour.
As they feed, they give off carbon dioxide gas. The gas cannot escape, because kneading the dough has built a stretchy web of gluten that traps it. Thousands of tiny bubbles form, and the dough swells.
In the oven, two things happen. The trapped gas expands in the heat, so the loaf rises further. Then the heat kills the yeast and sets the gluten, and the bubbles are locked in place.
That is why bread has holes in it.
1. How would a photograph of a cut loaf help?
2. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
How a Canal Lock Works
A canal cannot run uphill. Where the land rises, engineers build a lock: a chamber with a gate at each end.
A boat going uphill enters the lock through the lower gate. The gate closes behind it.
Sluices in the upper gate are opened. Water flows in from the higher stretch of canal, and the boat rises with it. No pump is needed, because the water comes down by gravity.
When the water inside matches the level above, the upper gate can be opened and the boat moves on.
Going downhill, everything runs the other way: the water is let out, and the boat sinks with it.
1. What would a diagram of a lock need to label?
2. How would a labelled diagram help a reader of this text?
LessonPrint · SL.3.5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Add a Visual Display
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It would show the trapped bubbles as holes, which is the text's conclusion. 2. Yeast cells feeding, gas bubbles in the gluten web, and the set bubbles in a baked loaf.
2.1. The lower gate, the upper gate, the sluices, the chamber and the two water levels. 2. It could show both gates, the sluices and the two water levels at once, which words have to take in turn.
Questions about Add a Visual Display
What does the Add a Visual Display worksheet cover?
It practises choosing where a visual would emphasise a detail — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core SL.3.5: Record a fluent reading of a story or poem, and add visuals. 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 Add a Visual Display practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.5 — SL.3.5, in the Speaking & Listening domain for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Add a Visual Display is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on SL.3.5, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Add a Visual Display 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 Add a Visual Display can I print?
25 versions, of which 24 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 Add a Visual Display free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Add a Visual Display, 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 SL.3.5
Record a fluent reading of a story or poem, and add visuals.