Recount a Folktale is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on retelling a folktale or myth with its key details, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 17 of them with 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.

Set 13 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 17 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

Recount a Folktale

RL.3.2

NameDate

Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. Recount this fable and explain how the moral is conveyed.

2.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. Retell what happens across this poem.

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Answer key — Recount a Folktale

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. A trapped fox flattered a goat into jumping in, escaped on his back, and told him he should have thought first — look before you leap.
2.1. A conker waits inside its spiny case all summer, falls and shines in autumn, and within days is dull and forgotten in a pocket.

More practice for RL.3.2

Retell a tale, state its message, and show which details carry it.

Teaching this next? The Central Message and How It Is Conveyed is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.