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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.

How a Windmill Grinds Flour

A windmill turns moving air into turning stone. The sails are set at a slight angle. Because of that angle, wind pushing on them cannot pass straight through, so it pushes them round instead. The sails turn a horizontal shaft. A large wooden gear on that shaft meshes with a smaller one on an upright shaft, which turns the millstones below. Because the smaller gear has fewer teeth, it spins faster than the sails do. Four turns of the sails can mean twenty turns of the stone. The grain falls between two stones. The top stone turns; the bottom one does not. The grain is crushed between them, and flour comes out at the edge.

  1. 1. How are the sails set?
  2. 2. What is a "shaft" in this text?
  3. 3. Which millstone turns?
  4. 4. Where does the flour come out?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Salmon's Return

A salmon hatches in a river, swims to the sea, and comes back years later to the river it was born in. It finds its way home by smell. Every river carries its own mixture of soil, rock and plants, and a young salmon learns that smell before it leaves. The return journey is upstream. The fish leap waterfalls, sometimes several metres high, and they do not eat once they enter fresh water. Because it is not feeding, a salmon uses up its own body on the climb. By the time it reaches the gravel where it hatched, it is thin and worn. There it lays its eggs. Most Atlantic salmon die soon afterwards.

  1. 1. Does a salmon eat on the return journey?
  2. 2. What is "gravel" here?
  3. 3. How does it find its way home?
  4. 4. What does "upstream" mean?

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Answer key — Reread to Understand

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. At a slight angle. 2. A rod that turns and carries the movement from one part to another. 3. The top one. 4. At the edge of the stones.
  2. 2.1. No — it does not eat once it enters fresh water. 2. The small stones on a riverbed where salmon lay their eggs. 3. By smell. 4. Against the current, towards the source of the river.

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