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Answer with the Text is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on answering a question by quoting the words that prove it, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.1. 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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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.

Answer with the Text

RL.3.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Anansi Has Thin Legs

Long ago Anansi the spider had eight fat legs, and a nose for other people's cooking. One morning he smelled beans at Rabbit's house. "Tie a web to my leg," he told Rabbit, "and tug it when the beans are ready." Rabbit agreed. Then Anansi smelled fish at Monkey's, and yams at Guinea Fowl's, and soup at Warthog's. To each he said the same thing. By noon he had eight webs tied to eight legs. At noon every pot was ready at once. Eight tugs came together. The webs pulled so hard that Anansi's legs stretched thin as thread — and he got no dinner at all. They have been thin ever since.

  1. 1. Quote the words that tell you Anansi was greedy.
  2. 2. Which sentence explains why his legs went thin?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Conker

First stanza: Inside the green and spiny case, packed in a lining soft as silk, it waits all summer in the dark and grows the colour of stained milk. Second stanza: Then autumn cracks the case in two. It falls. It hits the path and shines so hard and bright and newly made you cannot walk past it. Nobody can. Third stanza: By Sunday it is dull and cracked and lighter than it was before — a small brown stone inside a pocket, and no one wants it any more.

  1. 1. Quote the line that describes the inside of the case.
  2. 2. Which words show how the conker looks when it first falls?

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Answer key — Answer with the Text

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "a nose for other people's cooking" and "To each he said the same thing". 2. "The webs pulled so hard that Anansi's legs stretched thin as thread."
  2. 2.1. "packed in a lining soft as silk". 2. "so hard and bright and newly made".

More practice for RL.3.1

Answer questions about a story by pointing at the words that prove it.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.