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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.

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. When does the case crack open?
  2. 2. What is inside the green and spiny case?
  3. 3. Where is the conker in the last stanza?
  4. 4. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Anansi Has Thin Legs

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. 1. How many webs were tied to Anansi's legs by noon?
  2. 2. Where does this story take place?
  3. 3. What did Anansi get to eat in the end?
  4. 4. What did Anansi ask each neighbour to do?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. In autumn. 2. A conker. 3. Inside a pocket. 4. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was.
  2. 2.1. Eight. 2. In a village of neighbours — Rabbit's, Monkey's, Guinea Fowl's and Warthog's houses. 3. Nothing — he got no dinner at all. 4. Tie a web to his leg and tug it when the food was ready.

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