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.

Conker

First stanza: Inside the green and spiny case, packed in a lining soft as silk, it waits all summer in the dark and grows the colour of stained milk. Second stanza: Then autumn cracks the case in two. It falls. It hits the path and shines so hard and bright and newly made you cannot walk past it. Nobody can. Third stanza: By Sunday it is dull and cracked and lighter than it was before — a small brown stone inside a pocket, and no one wants it any more.

1. What is this poem really about?
2. "Autumn cracks the case in two" — can autumn crack anything?
3. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
4. When does the case crack open?

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Fox and the Well

A fox leaned too far over a well and fell in. The water was shallow, but the walls were smooth and far too high to climb. He was still sitting there when a goat came by and looked down. "Is the water good?" asked the goat. "The best I have ever tasted," said the fox. "Come down and see." The goat jumped in. The fox climbed onto the goat's back, sprang out, and trotted off. "Wait!" called the goat. "How do I get out?" "You should have thought about that," said the fox, "before you jumped."

1. How did the fox escape?
2. What does the goat's question at the start tell you about him?
3. What is the moral of this fable?
4. How did the fox get into the well?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Story

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. How quickly a conker goes from something nobody can walk past to a dull stone in a pocket. 2. No — it means the case opens when autumn comes, described as though the season did it. 3. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 4. In autumn.
2.1. He climbed onto the goat's back and sprang out. 2. He is trusting — he asks about the water rather than about how the fox got there. 3. Look before you leap — the goat jumped in without asking how he would get out. 4. He leaned too far over and fell in.

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