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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.

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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.

How a Windmill Grinds Flour

A windmill turns moving air into turning stone. The sails are set at a slight angle. Because of that angle, wind pushing on them cannot pass straight through, so it pushes them round instead. The sails turn a horizontal shaft. A large wooden gear on that shaft meshes with a smaller one on an upright shaft, which turns the millstones below. Because the smaller gear has fewer teeth, it spins faster than the sails do. Four turns of the sails can mean twenty turns of the stone. The grain falls between two stones. The top stone turns; the bottom one does not. The grain is crushed between them, and flour comes out at the edge.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a windmill need to label?
  2. 2. How would a cutaway diagram help this text?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Turning Milk into Cheese

Cheese begins as an accident that people learned to repeat. Milk is mostly water with fat and protein in it. To make cheese, the protein has to be separated out. A starter culture of bacteria is added first. The bacteria turn some of the milk sugar into acid, and the acid begins to make the protein clump together. Then rennet is added, which finishes the job. The milk splits into solid curds and watery whey. The whey is drained off. The curds are pressed, salted, and left to age. Time does the rest: a cheese aged for two years tastes nothing like the same cheese at two weeks.

  1. 1. How would subheadings help this text?
  2. 2. What would a diagram for this text need to show?

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Answer key — Add a Visual Display

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The angled sails, the horizontal shaft, both gears, the upright shaft and the two millstones. 2. It could show the sails, both shafts, the gears and the stones in one picture, in the right positions.
  2. 2.1. Each stage could be named, so a reader could find the rennet step without rereading. 2. Milk, the starter culture, the split into curds and whey, and the pressed cheese.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.3.5 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.