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 19 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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
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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.
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. Recount what happens in this scene.
LessonPrint · RL.3.2 · Set 19 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Recount a Folktale
Set 19. 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. Priya and Jon search the museum store room at night for something Priya dusted on Tuesday, and realise it may have gone before then.
More practice for RL.3.2
Retell a tale, state its message, and show which details carry it.