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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 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. 1. Recount what happens in this scene.
  2. 2. What is the only light in the room?
  3. 3. What happens after Priya suggests it went missing before Tuesday?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Violin in the Loft

Nobody in our family plays anything. So the violin in the loft was a mystery for eleven years. Then Great-Aunt Sylvie came for Christmas and saw the case on the table. She went very quiet. "That was my brother's," she said. "He played in a café in Marseille before the war." She opened it. Three strings had gone, and the bridge lay loose in the bottom of the case. She did not play it. She held it under her chin for about ten seconds, put it back, and closed the lid. Then she asked for more potatoes and did not mention it again.

  1. 1. What was wrong with the violin?
  2. 2. Recount this story with the key details.
  3. 3. What did Sylvie do between opening the case and closing the lid?

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Answer key — Supporting Details

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Priya and Jon search the museum store room at night for something Priya dusted on Tuesday, and realise it may have gone before then. 2. A single desk lamp. 3. Jon pauses, puts the lid down slowly, and says that is worse.
  2. 2.1. Three strings had gone and the bridge lay loose in the case. 2. A violin sat unexplained in the loft for eleven years until Great-Aunt Sylvie recognised it as her brother's, held it briefly, and put it back. 3. She held the violin under her chin for about ten seconds.

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