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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.

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

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 7. 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. In a shoebox. 2. Ninety-two. 3. In Canada, at a town whose address had changed. 4. Every Thursday.

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