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How Each Part Builds is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on explaining how a later part builds on an earlier one, 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 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.

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How Each Part Builds

RL.3.5

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Museum Key (a scene from a play)

SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp. PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf. JON: You are sure it was this shelf? PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure. JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday. PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space. (Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.) JON: That is worse. PRIYA: I know.

  1. 1. What is this scene really about?
  2. 2. What happens after Priya suggests it went missing before Tuesday?
  3. 3. How is a play script laid out differently from a story?
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. How does each stanza build on the one before it?
  2. 2. What is this poem really about?
  3. 3. Put these in order: it hits the path, it waits in the dark, it goes dull.

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Answer key — How Each Part Builds

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. How much you can trust your own memory of something ordinary. 2. Jon pauses, puts the lid down slowly, and says that is worse. 3. It names the speaker before each line and puts the actions in stage directions in brackets.
  2. 2.1. The poem follows the conker forward in time: waiting, falling, then fading. 2. How quickly a conker goes from something nobody can walk past to a dull stone in a pocket. 3. It waits in the dark, it hits the path, it goes dull.

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