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Reread to Understand is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on going back over a text to pin down the meaning, aligned to Common Core standard RF.3.4. 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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Reread to Understand

RF.3.4

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Swallows Leave

Swallows do not leave Britain because of the cold. They leave because of the insects. A swallow eats flying insects, and it catches them in the air. In October the insects disappear, and a bird that eats nothing else has to follow the food. So swallows fly to southern Africa: about six thousand miles, taking roughly six weeks. They travel by day and feed as they go. They lose about a third of their body weight on the way. Many do not arrive. The following spring they return, and a swallow will often nest in the very barn it hatched in.

  1. 1. How much weight do they lose?
  2. 2. What does "migration" mean?
  3. 3. How far do swallows fly?
  4. 4. What does "hatched" mean?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Braille Was Invented

Louis Braille was blinded in an accident at the age of three. At his school, blind pupils read by tracing raised letters pressed into paper. It worked, slowly — a fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once — and nobody could write that way at all. When Braille was twelve, a soldier visited the school with a code of raised dots that soldiers used to read messages in the dark. It was too complicated, but the idea of dots was right. Braille spent three years simplifying it. He settled on a cell of six dots, small enough to sit under one fingertip. He was fifteen when he finished. He was forty-three when he died, and the system was not widely accepted until after that.

  1. 1. What does "simplifying" mean?
  2. 2. How old was Louis Braille when he lost his sight?
  3. 3. What is a "cell" in braille?
  4. 4. How old was he when he finished the system?

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Answer key — Reread to Understand

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  1. 1.1. About a third of their body weight. 2. Migration is the regular seasonal journey swallows make between Britain and southern Africa. 3. About six thousand miles. 4. Hatched means came out of the egg, which a young swallow does before it ever migrates.
  2. 2.1. Making something less complicated. 2. Three. 3. The group of six dot positions that make up one character. 4. Fifteen.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.3.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.