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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.

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

Why Swallows Leave

Swallows do not leave Britain because of the cold. They leave because of the insects. A swallow eats flying insects, and it catches them in the air. In October the insects disappear, and a bird that eats nothing else has to follow the food. So swallows fly to southern Africa: about six thousand miles, taking roughly six weeks. They travel by day and feed as they go. They lose about a third of their body weight on the way. Many do not arrive. The following spring they return, and a swallow will often nest in the very barn it hatched in.

  1. 1. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
  2. 2. How far do swallows fly?
  3. 3. How much weight do they lose?
  4. 4. The author opens by saying it is not the cold. What reason is given instead?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

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  1. 1.1. Carbon dioxide. 2. The trapped gas expands in the heat. 3. A stretchy web of gluten built by kneading. 4. Bread rises because living yeast makes gas that gluten traps — supported by the feeding, the bubbles and the oven.
  2. 2.1. To correct the idea that swallows leave because of the cold, and explain that the insects are the real cause. 2. About six thousand miles. 3. About a third of their body weight. 4. The insects the swallow eats disappear in October.

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