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Maps, Photographs and Words is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on combining an image with the text to understand it, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 20 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. 20 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.

Maps, Photographs and Words

RI.3.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Windmill Grinds Flour

A windmill turns moving air into turning stone. The sails are set at a slight angle. Because of that angle, wind pushing on them cannot pass straight through, so it pushes them round instead. The sails turn a horizontal shaft. A large wooden gear on that shaft meshes with a smaller one on an upright shaft, which turns the millstones below. Because the smaller gear has fewer teeth, it spins faster than the sails do. Four turns of the sails can mean twenty turns of the stone. The grain falls between two stones. The top stone turns; the bottom one does not. The grain is crushed between them, and flour comes out at the edge.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a windmill need to label?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Canal Lock Works

A canal cannot run uphill. Where the land rises, engineers build a lock: a chamber with a gate at each end. A boat going uphill enters the lock through the lower gate. The gate closes behind it. Sluices in the upper gate are opened. Water flows in from the higher stretch of canal, and the boat rises with it. No pump is needed, because the water comes down by gravity. When the water inside matches the level above, the upper gate can be opened and the boat moves on. Going downhill, everything runs the other way: the water is let out, and the boat sinks with it.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a lock need to label?

LessonPrint · RI.3.7 · Set 19 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Maps, Photographs and Words

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The angled sails, the horizontal shaft, both gears, the upright shaft and the two millstones.
  2. 2.1. The lower gate, the upper gate, the sluices, the chamber and the two water levels.

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Use maps and photographs with the words to explain what happened.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.3.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.