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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.

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. When does the case crack open?
  2. 2. What is inside the green and spiny case?
  3. 3. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
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. How long had the violin been a mystery?

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Answer key — Supporting Details

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. In autumn. 2. A conker. 3. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was.
  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. Eleven years.

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