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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 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. 1. Why does it matter that this happens at Christmas?
  2. 2. Whose violin was it?
  3. 3. What was wrong with the violin?
  4. 4. How long had the violin been a mystery?
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. What did Anansi ask each neighbour to do?
  2. 2. What did Anansi get to eat in the end?
  3. 3. Where does this story take place?
  4. 4. How many webs were tied to Anansi's legs by noon?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The family is together, which is why Sylvie is there to recognise the case at all. 2. Great-Aunt Sylvie's brother's. 3. Three strings had gone and the bridge lay loose in the case. 4. Eleven years.
  2. 2.1. Tie a web to his leg and tug it when the food was ready. 2. Nothing — he got no dinner at all. 3. In a village of neighbours — Rabbit's, Monkey's, Guinea Fowl's and Warthog's houses. 4. Eight.

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