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

The Last Letter

Every Thursday for six years, Mr Ellis posted a letter to his sister in Canada. Then the letters started coming back. Address unknown. He kept writing them anyway. He put them in a shoebox instead of the postbox. When his neighbour Ada asked why, he said, "Because the day I stop writing is the day she is really gone." Ada went home and looked up the town on a map. It took her three weeks and eleven phone calls to find the new address. The shoebox held ninety-two letters. They posted them all on the same day.

  1. 1. How often did Mr Ellis write to his sister?
  2. 2. Where is Mr Ellis's sister?
  3. 3. How many letters were in the shoebox?
  4. 4. Where did he put the letters once they came back?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A conker. 2. In autumn. 3. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 4. Inside a pocket.
  2. 2.1. Every Thursday. 2. In Canada, at a town whose address had changed. 3. Ninety-two. 4. In a shoebox.

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