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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 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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Questions and Key Details

RL.3.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Wrong Bus

Halim was two stops past the school before he looked up. The bus was going the other way. He had got on at the same shelter, in the same rain, and never checked the number. His stomach dropped. He thought about crying and decided against it, because it would not help. He read the route map above the window. He worked out that the 41 came back the same way. He rang the bell, got off, crossed at the lights, and waited eleven minutes for the 41. He was twenty minutes late. Mrs Achebe asked what happened. "I got the wrong bus," said Halim, "and then I got the right one."

  1. 1. How does the rain matter to the story?
  2. 2. Which bus number took him back?
  3. 3. How far past the school was Halim before he noticed?
  4. 4. How late was he?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Night the Lamp Went Out

Grace's father kept the lighthouse. On the worst night of the winter, the lamp went out. He was ill in bed. Grace was eleven. She carried the oil up ninety-seven steps in the dark, twice, because the can was too heavy to lift full. Her arms shook so much on the second trip that she had to sit down halfway. She trimmed the wick the way she had watched a hundred times. She struck the match on the fourth try. By the time the light swung out across the water, three ships had already turned back. Grace never knew whether she had been in time. She decided not to think about it.

  1. 1. Why did she make the trip twice?
  2. 2. How does the setting make the events harder?
  3. 3. How many tries did the match take?
  4. 4. How many steps did Grace climb?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is why he got on without checking — the same shelter, the same rain, head down. 2. The 41. 3. Two stops. 4. Twenty minutes.
  2. 2.1. The can was too heavy to lift full. 2. It is the worst night of the winter, dark, with ninety-seven steps to climb. 3. Four. 4. Ninety-seven.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.