Reading a Grade 3 Story is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on reading a whole Grade 3 text and answering across it, aligned to Common Core standard RL.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 Story

RL.3.10

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Violin in the Loft

Nobody in our family plays anything. So the violin in the loft was a mystery for eleven years. Then Great-Aunt Sylvie came for Christmas and saw the case on the table. She went very quiet. "That was my brother's," she said. "He played in a café in Marseille before the war." She opened it. Three strings had gone, and the bridge lay loose in the bottom of the case. She did not play it. She held it under her chin for about ten seconds, put it back, and closed the lid. Then she asked for more potatoes and did not mention it again.

1. Whose violin was it?
2. "She went very quiet" — what does this really tell you?
3. Why might Sylvie have put the violin back without playing it?
4. What was wrong with the violin?

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Museum Key (a scene from a play)

SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp. PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf. JON: You are sure it was this shelf? PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure. JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday. PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space. (Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.) JON: That is worse. PRIYA: I know.

1. "I dusted the empty space" — what does Priya mean?
2. How does Jon respond to Priya's second idea?
3. What is the only light in the room?
4. Where is this scene set?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Story

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. Great-Aunt Sylvie's brother's. 2. Not just that she stopped talking, but that something had affected her. 3. The story does not say; the broken strings, or the memory of her brother, or both. 4. Three strings had gone and the bridge lay loose in the case.
2.1. That the object may already have been gone, and she cleaned the shelf without noticing. 2. He puts the lid down slowly and says it is worse — he sees what it would mean. 3. A single desk lamp. 4. The museum store room, at night.

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