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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 Last Letter

Every Thursday for six years, Mr Ellis posted a letter to his sister in Canada. Then the letters started coming back. Address unknown. He kept writing them anyway. He put them in a shoebox instead of the postbox. When his neighbour Ada asked why, he said, "Because the day I stop writing is the day she is really gone." Ada went home and looked up the town on a map. It took her three weeks and eleven phone calls to find the new address. The shoebox held ninety-two letters. They posted them all on the same day.

  1. 1. How many letters were in the shoebox?
  2. 2. Describe Mr Ellis's motivation for writing letters he could not send.
  3. 3. What do Ada's actions tell you about her?
  4. 4. Where did he put the letters once they came back?
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. 1. The fox says the water is "the best I have ever tasted". Is he telling the truth?
  2. 2. "Look before you leap" is a proverb. What does it mean here?
  3. 3. Describe the fox's motivation. What does he want?
  4. 4. How did the fox escape?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Story

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Ninety-two. 2. Writing kept his sister present for him — stopping would have meant losing her. 3. She is persistent and quietly kind — three weeks and eleven calls, without being asked. 4. In a shoebox.
  2. 2.1. No — he is flattering the water to get the goat to jump in. 2. Think about the consequences before you act, as the goat should have before jumping into the well. 3. He wants out of the well, and he is willing to trap the goat to manage it. 4. He climbed onto the goat's back and sprang out.

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