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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.

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. 1. "Soft as silk" — what is being compared, and why?
  2. 2. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
  3. 3. What is inside the green and spiny case?
  4. 4. What is this poem really about?
2.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. "The day she is really gone" — is his sister dead? What does he mean?
  2. 2. How often did Mr Ellis write to his sister?
  3. 3. What do Ada's actions tell you about her?
  4. 4. How many letters were in the shoebox?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 3 Story

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The lining of the case is compared to silk, to show how smooth it is inside a spiny shell. 2. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 3. A conker. 4. How quickly a conker goes from something nobody can walk past to a dull stone in a pocket.
  2. 2.1. No. He means she would be gone from his life, which is different from being unreachable by post. 2. Every Thursday. 3. She is persistent and quietly kind — three weeks and eleven calls, without being asked. 4. Ninety-two.

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