What Each Text Adds is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on finding what one text gives that the other does not, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.9. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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.
23 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.
What Each Text Adds
RI.3.9
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Why Bread Rises
Yeast is alive. It is a fungus, and each grain of dried yeast holds millions of cells waiting for water.
Add warm water and the cells wake up. They begin to feed on the sugars in the flour.
As they feed, they give off carbon dioxide gas. The gas cannot escape, because kneading the dough has built a stretchy web of gluten that traps it. Thousands of tiny bubbles form, and the dough swells.
In the oven, two things happen. The trapped gas expands in the heat, so the loaf rises further. Then the heat kills the yeast and sets the gluten, and the bubbles are locked in place.
That is why bread has holes in it.
1. How is bread rising like a balloon inflating?
2. How is it different from a balloon?
2.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. How is cheesemaking like breadmaking?
2. How is cheesemaking different from breadmaking?
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Answer key — What Each Text Adds
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. In both, gas is trapped inside something stretchy and pushes it outwards. 2. The gas in bread is made by living yeast, and the heat sets the holes permanently.
2.1. Both use living things — bacteria or yeast — to change a food, then set the result. 2. Cheese is made by separating and pressing; bread is made by trapping gas and baking.
Questions about What Each Text Adds
What does the What Each Text Adds worksheet cover?
It practises finding what one text gives that the other does not — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RI.3.9: Compare the main points and details of two texts on one topic. 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 What Each Text Adds practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.9 — RI.3.9, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What Each Text Adds is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RI.3.9, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What Each Text Adds 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 What Each Text Adds can I print?
25 versions, of which 23 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 What Each Text Adds free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What Each Text Adds, 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.
More practice for RI.3.9
Compare the main points and details of two texts on one topic.