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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.

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 many stanzas does this poem have, and what does each one cover?
  2. 2. Put these in order: it hits the path, it waits in the dark, it goes dull.
  3. 3. How does each stanza build on the one before it?
2.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. What is the purpose of the first four lines, before anyone speaks?

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Answer key — How Each Part Builds

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  1. 1.1. Three — inside the case, the moment it falls, and a few days later. 2. It waits in the dark, it hits the path, it goes dull. 3. The poem follows the conker forward in time: waiting, falling, then fading.
  2. 2.1. 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. They set the scene — the place, the time and what is on stage.

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