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Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on reading a whole information text and answering across it, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.10. 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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Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

RI.3.10

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Braille Was Invented

Louis Braille was blinded in an accident at the age of three. At his school, blind pupils read by tracing raised letters pressed into paper. It worked, slowly — a fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once — and nobody could write that way at all. When Braille was twelve, a soldier visited the school with a code of raised dots that soldiers used to read messages in the dark. It was too complicated, but the idea of dots was right. Braille spent three years simplifying it. He settled on a cell of six dots, small enough to sit under one fingertip. He was fifteen when he finished. He was forty-three when he died, and the system was not widely accepted until after that.

  1. 1. How many dots are in a braille cell?
  2. 2. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
  3. 3. How old was he when he finished the system?
  4. 4. The author says raised letters worked slowly. What reason is given?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Bread Rises

Yeast is alive. It is a fungus, and each grain of dried yeast holds millions of cells waiting for water. Add warm water and the cells wake up. They begin to feed on the sugars in the flour. As they feed, they give off carbon dioxide gas. The gas cannot escape, because kneading the dough has built a stretchy web of gluten that traps it. Thousands of tiny bubbles form, and the dough swells. In the oven, two things happen. The trapped gas expands in the heat, so the loaf rises further. Then the heat kills the yeast and sets the gluten, and the bubbles are locked in place. That is why bread has holes in it.

  1. 1. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
  2. 2. What traps the gas in the dough?
  3. 3. The author says the loaf rises further in the oven. What reason is given?
  4. 4. What gas does yeast give off?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Six. 2. Braille invented a readable and writable system of six dots — supported by the failure of raised letters and the soldier's code. 3. Fifteen. 4. A fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once.
  2. 2.1. Bread rises because living yeast makes gas that gluten traps — supported by the feeding, the bubbles and the oven. 2. A stretchy web of gluten built by kneading. 3. The trapped gas expands in the heat. 4. Carbon dioxide.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.3.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.