Questions and Key Details is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on answering across a story from its stated details, aligned to Common Core standard RL.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 students 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.
Long ago Anansi the spider had eight fat legs, and a nose for other people's cooking.
One morning he smelled beans at Rabbit's house. "Tie a web to my leg," he told Rabbit, "and tug it when the beans are ready." Rabbit agreed.
Then Anansi smelled fish at Monkey's, and yams at Guinea Fowl's, and soup at Warthog's. To each he said the same thing. By noon he had eight webs tied to eight legs.
At noon every pot was ready at once. Eight tugs came together. The webs pulled so hard that Anansi's legs stretched thin as thread — and he got no dinner at all.
They have been thin ever since.
1. Where does this story take place?
2. How many webs were tied to Anansi's legs by noon?
3. What did Anansi ask each neighbor to do?
4. What did Anansi get to eat in the end?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Violin in the Loft
Nobody in our family plays anything. So the violin in the loft was a mystery for eleven years.
Then Great-Aunt Sylvie came for Christmas and saw the case on the table. She went very quiet.
"That was my brother's," she said. "He played in a café in Marseille before the war."
She opened it. Three strings had gone, and the bridge lay loose in the bottom of the case.
She did not play it. She held it under her chin for about ten seconds, put it back, and closed the lid. Then she asked for more potatoes and did not mention it again.
1. Why does it matter that this happens at Christmas?
2. How long had the violin been a mystery?
3. Whose violin was it?
4. What was wrong with the violin?
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Answer key — Questions and Key Details
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. In a village of neighbors — Rabbit's, Monkey's, Guinea Fowl's and Warthog's houses. 2. Eight. 3. Tie a web to his leg and tug it when the food was ready. 4. Nothing — he got no dinner at all.
2.1. The family is together, which is why Sylvie is there to recognize the case at all. 2. Eleven years. 3. Great-Aunt Sylvie's brother's. 4. Three strings had gone and the bridge lay loose in the case.
Questions about Questions and Key Details
What does the Questions and Key Details worksheet cover?
It practices answering across a story from its stated details — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RL.3.1: Answer questions about a story by pointing at the words that prove it. The instruction to students is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Questions and Key Details practice?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 — RL.3.1, under Reading: Literature 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 and Key Details is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RL.3.1, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Questions and Key Details 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 and Key Details can I print?
25 — one per student, 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 and Key Details free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Questions and Key Details, 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 RL.3.1
Answer questions about a story by pointing at the words that prove it.