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

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Answer key — Supporting Details

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. She held the violin under her chin for about ten seconds. 2. Great-Aunt Sylvie's brother's. 3. 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.
  2. 2.1. Four. 2. Ninety-seven. 3. She trimmed the wick.

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