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Supporting Details is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on holding on to the details that support an idea, aligned to Common Core standard SL.3.2. 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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Supporting Details

SL.3.2

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Night the Lamp Went Out

Grace's father kept the lighthouse. On the worst night of the winter, the lamp went out. He was ill in bed. Grace was eleven. She carried the oil up ninety-seven steps in the dark, twice, because the can was too heavy to lift full. Her arms shook so much on the second trip that she had to sit down halfway. She trimmed the wick the way she had watched a hundred times. She struck the match on the fourth try. By the time the light swung out across the water, three ships had already turned back. Grace never knew whether she had been in time. She decided not to think about it.

  1. 1. How many tries did the match take?
  2. 2. How many steps did Grace climb?
  3. 3. What did Grace do between carrying the oil and striking the match?
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. 1. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
  2. 2. Retell what happens across this poem.
  3. 3. When does the case crack open?

LessonPrint · SL.3.2 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Supporting Details

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Four. 2. Ninety-seven. 3. She trimmed the wick.
  2. 2.1. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 2. A conker waits inside its spiny case all summer, falls and shines in autumn, and within days is dull and forgotten in a pocket. 3. In autumn.

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