Chapters, Scenes and Stanzas is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on using the right term for a part of a text, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 21 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. 21 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.

Chapters, Scenes and Stanzas

RL.3.5

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. How many stanzas does this poem have, and what does each one cover?
2. How does each stanza build on the one before it?

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Wrong Bus

Halim was two stops past the school before he looked up. The bus was going the other way. He had got on at the same shelter, in the same rain, and never checked the number. His stomach dropped. He thought about crying and decided against it, because it would not help. He read the route map above the window. He worked out that the 41 came back the same way. He rang the bell, got off, crossed at the lights, and waited eleven minutes for the 41. He was twenty minutes late. Mrs Achebe asked what happened. "I got the wrong bus," said Halim, "and then I got the right one."

1. How does the last line conclude the story?

LessonPrint · RL.3.5 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Chapters, Scenes and Stanzas

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. Three — inside the case, the moment it falls, and a few days later. 2. The poem follows the conker forward in time: waiting, falling, then fading.
2.1. It sums up the whole event in Halim's own words, calmly, which shows he has recovered.

More practice for RL.3.5

Use the words chapter, scene and stanza, and say how each part builds on the last.

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