Questions About the Facts is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on answering across an information text, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.1. 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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. What is added first?
2. What is milk mostly made of?
3. What are the two parts the milk splits into?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Why Bread Rises
Yeast is alive. It is a fungus, and each grain of dried yeast holds millions of cells waiting for water.
Add warm water and the cells wake up. They begin to feed on the sugars in the flour.
As they feed, they give off carbon dioxide gas. The gas cannot escape, because kneading the dough has built a stretchy web of gluten that traps it. Thousands of tiny bubbles form, and the dough swells.
In the oven, two things happen. The trapped gas expands in the heat, so the loaf rises further. Then the heat kills the yeast and sets the gluten, and the bubbles are locked in place.
That is why bread has holes in it.
1. What gas does yeast give off?
2. What traps the gas in the dough?
3. What kind of living thing is yeast?
LessonPrint · RI.3.1 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Questions About the Facts
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A starter culture of bacteria. 2. Water, with fat and protein in it. 3. Solid curds and watery whey.
2.1. Carbon dioxide. 2. A stretchy web of gluten built by kneading. 3. A fungus.
Questions about Questions About the Facts
What does the Questions About the Facts worksheet cover?
It practises answering across an information text — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RI.3.1: Answer questions about an information text by quoting where it says so. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Questions About the Facts practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 — RI.3.1, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Questions About the Facts is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RI.3.1, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Questions About the Facts come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Questions About the Facts can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Questions About the Facts free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Questions About the Facts, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RI.3.1
Answer questions about an information text by quoting where it says so.