Skip to content
LessonPrint

Following a Technical Explanation is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on holding a chain of causes together while reading, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.10. 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 13 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per pupil

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Following a Technical Explanation

RI.3.10

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. Explain the cause and effect between the acid and the curds.
  2. 2. Why must the whey be drained off?
  3. 3. Put these in order: the whey is drained, rennet is added, the curds are pressed.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Braille Was Invented

Louis Braille was blinded in an accident at the age of three. At his school, blind pupils read by tracing raised letters pressed into paper. It worked, slowly — a fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once — and nobody could write that way at all. When Braille was twelve, a soldier visited the school with a code of raised dots that soldiers used to read messages in the dark. It was too complicated, but the idea of dots was right. Braille spent three years simplifying it. He settled on a cell of six dots, small enough to sit under one fingertip. He was fifteen when he finished. He was forty-three when he died, and the system was not widely accepted until after that.

  1. 1. Why did the size of the cell matter so much?
  2. 2. Put these in order: he settles on six dots, a soldier visits, he loses his sight.
  3. 3. Explain the cause and effect between the soldier's visit and braille.

LessonPrint · RI.3.10 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Following a Technical Explanation

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The acid makes the protein clump together, and rennet finishes it, so the milk splits into curds and whey. 2. Because cheese is made from the solid curds, and the whey is the watery part left over. 3. Rennet is added, the whey is drained, the curds are pressed.
  2. 2.1. It had to sit under one fingertip so a whole character could be felt at once. 2. He loses his sight, a soldier visits, he settles on six dots. 3. The soldier's dot code was too complicated, but it gave Braille the idea of dots, which he spent three years simplifying.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.3.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.