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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 traps the gas in the dough?
  2. 2. What kind of living thing is yeast?
  3. 3. What gas does yeast give off?
  4. 4. The author says the loaf rises further in the oven. What reason is given?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Salmon's Return

A salmon hatches in a river, swims to the sea, and comes back years later to the river it was born in. It finds its way home by smell. Every river carries its own mixture of soil, rock and plants, and a young salmon learns that smell before it leaves. The return journey is upstream. The fish leap waterfalls, sometimes several metres high, and they do not eat once they enter fresh water. Because it is not feeding, a salmon uses up its own body on the climb. By the time it reaches the gravel where it hatched, it is thin and worn. There it lays its eggs. Most Atlantic salmon die soon afterwards.

  1. 1. The author says the salmon arrives thin and worn. What reason is given?
  2. 2. Where does a salmon hatch?
  3. 3. Does a salmon eat on the return journey?
  4. 4. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A stretchy web of gluten built by kneading. 2. A fungus. 3. Carbon dioxide. 4. The trapped gas expands in the heat.
  2. 2.1. It does not eat in fresh water, so it uses up its own body on the climb. 2. In a river, in gravel. 3. No — it does not eat once it enters fresh water. 4. To explain the salmon life cycle and what makes it remarkable — each paragraph adds a cause.

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