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Read for Sense is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on reading closely enough to answer with evidence, aligned to Common Core standard RF.3.4. 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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Read for Sense

RF.3.4

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. Quote the words that tell you Anansi was greedy.
  3. 3. Which sentence explains why his legs went thin?
  4. 4. What did Anansi get to eat in the end?
2.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. Which words show how the conker looks when it first falls?
  2. 2. Quote the line that describes the inside of the case.
  3. 3. When does the case crack open?
  4. 4. What is inside the green and spiny case?

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Answer key — Read for Sense

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Eight. 2. "a nose for other people's cooking" and "To each he said the same thing". 3. "The webs pulled so hard that Anansi's legs stretched thin as thread." 4. Nothing — he got no dinner at all.
  2. 2.1. "so hard and bright and newly made". 2. "packed in a lining soft as silk". 3. In autumn. 4. A conker.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.3.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.