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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 is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
  2. 2. What gas does yeast give off?
  3. 3. What kind of living thing is yeast?
  4. 4. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Turning Milk into Cheese

Cheese begins as an accident that people learned to repeat. Milk is mostly water with fat and protein in it. To make cheese, the protein has to be separated out. A starter culture of bacteria is added first. The bacteria turn some of the milk sugar into acid, and the acid begins to make the protein clump together. Then rennet is added, which finishes the job. The milk splits into solid curds and watery whey. The whey is drained off. The curds are pressed, salted, and left to age. Time does the rest: a cheese aged for two years tastes nothing like the same cheese at two weeks.

  1. 1. What is the main idea of this text, and which details support it?
  2. 2. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
  3. 3. What are the two parts the milk splits into?
  4. 4. The author says time does the rest. What reason is given?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Fact Text

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To explain why bread rises — the text ends by answering exactly that. 2. Carbon dioxide. 3. A fungus. 4. Bread rises because living yeast makes gas that gluten traps — supported by the feeding, the bubbles and the oven.
  2. 2.1. Cheese is made by separating milk protein — supported by the bacteria, the rennet and the pressing. 2. To explain how cheese is made — the text follows the process step by step. 3. Solid curds and watery whey. 4. A cheese aged two years tastes nothing like the same cheese at two weeks.

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