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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.

Morse Code

Morse code turns every letter into a pattern of short and long signals: dots and dashes. The commonest letters were given the shortest patterns. E is one dot. T is one dash. Q, which is rare, is dash-dash-dot-dash. Because of that choice, an average message is much shorter than it would be otherwise. A message can be sent as sound, as light, or as taps on a pipe. That is why it survived so long: it needs almost no equipment. Timing carries the meaning. A dash is three times as long as a dot. The gap between letters is three dots long, and between words, seven. SOS was chosen because it is easy to recognise: three dots, three dashes, three dots.

  1. 1. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
  2. 2. The author says Morse survived a long time. What reason is given?
  3. 3. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
  4. 4. What is the Morse pattern for SOS?
2.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. How old was he when he finished the system?
  3. 3. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
  4. 4. The author says raised letters worked slowly. What reason is given?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Morse turns letters into timed dots and dashes — supported by the letter lengths, the timing rules and SOS. 2. It needs almost no equipment — it can be sent as sound, light or taps. 3. To explain how Morse works and why it was so useful — the whole text gives reasons. 4. Three dots, three dashes, three dots.
  2. 2.1. Six. 2. Fifteen. 3. Braille invented a readable and writable system of six dots — supported by the failure of raised letters and the soldier's code. 4. A fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once.

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