The Author's View and Mine is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on separating your own view from the author's, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 19 of them with 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
19 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
The Author's View and Mine
RI.3.6
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Turning Milk into Cheese
Cheese begins as an accident that people learned to repeat.
Milk is mostly water with fat and protein in it. To make cheese, the protein has to be separated out.
A starter culture of bacteria is added first. The bacteria turn some of the milk sugar into acid, and the acid begins to make the protein clump together.
Then rennet is added, which finishes the job. The milk splits into solid curds and watery whey.
The whey is drained off. The curds are pressed, salted, and left to age. Time does the rest: a cheese aged for two years tastes nothing like the same cheese at two weeks.
1. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
How Braille Was Invented
Louis Braille was blinded in an accident at the age of three.
At his school, blind pupils read by tracing raised letters pressed into paper. It worked, slowly — a fingertip cannot take in a whole letter shape at once — and nobody could write that way at all.
When Braille was twelve, a soldier visited the school with a code of raised dots that soldiers used to read messages in the dark. It was too complicated, but the idea of dots was right.
Braille spent three years simplifying it. He settled on a cell of six dots, small enough to sit under one fingertip.
He was fifteen when he finished. He was forty-three when he died, and the system was not widely accepted until after that.
1. What is the author's purpose, and how do you know?
LessonPrint · RI.3.6 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — The Author's View and Mine
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. To explain how cheese is made — the text follows the process step by step.
2.1. To explain how braille came about — the text follows the problem, the idea and the solution.
Questions about The Author's View and Mine
What does the The Author's View and Mine worksheet cover?
It practises separating your own view from the author's — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RI.3.6: Separate what you think from what the author thinks. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does The Author's View and Mine practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.6 — RI.3.6, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
The Author's View and Mine is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RI.3.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does The Author's View and Mine come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of The Author's View and Mine can I print?
25 versions, of which 19 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is The Author's View and Mine free to print and photocopy?
Yes. The Author's View and Mine, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.3.6?
Yes — “The Author's Point and Yours” is a 40-minute Grade 3 plan for RI.3.6, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. The Author's View and Mine is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RI.3.6
Separate what you think from what the author thinks.
Teaching this next? The Author's Point and Yours is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.