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What Each Text Adds is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on comparing two short texts on one topic to find what the second adds, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.9. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students 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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What Each Text Adds

RI.3.9

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Circle the right answer.

1.Text 1: A lock has a gate at each end. Text 2: A lock needs no pump because water flows by gravity. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.That a lock has gates
  • B.Why no pump is needed
  • C.How long a canal is
2.Text 1: Morse code uses dots and dashes. Text 2: Morse code can be sent as sound, light or taps. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.Who invented it
  • B.The ways a message can be sent
  • C.That it uses dots and dashes
3.Text 1: Beavers build dams of sticks and mud. Text 2: A beaver dam makes a pond where beavers are safe from wolves. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.What dams are made of
  • B.How big a beaver is
  • C.Why beavers build dams
4.Text 1: Swallows fly to Africa every fall. Text 2: Swallows leave because the flying insects they eat disappear. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.That swallows are birds
  • B.The reason swallows leave
  • C.Where swallows go
5.Text 1: Cheese is made from milk. Text 2: Bacteria and rennet split milk into curds and whey. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.That cheese comes from milk
  • B.How milk is turned into cheese
  • C.Which cheese tastes best
6.Text 1: Braille is a code of raised dots. Text 2: Louis Braille finished his code at fifteen. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.That the code uses dots
  • B.How the dots are printed
  • C.When the code was finished
7.Text 1: Lighthouses warn ships about rocks. Text 2: Each lighthouse flashes its own pattern so sailors know which one they see. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.How tall lighthouses are
  • B.That lighthouses warn ships
  • C.How sailors tell lighthouses apart
8.Text 1 says swallows lose a third of their weight. Text 2 says many swallows die on the way. What do both texts show?
  • A.Swallows never come back
  • B.The journey is short
  • C.The journey is very hard

LessonPrint · RI.3.9 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What Each Text Adds

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Why no pump is needed
  2. 2.The ways a message can be sent
  3. 3.Why beavers build dams
  4. 4.The reason swallows leave
  5. 5.How milk is turned into cheese
  6. 6.When the code was finished
  7. 7.How sailors tell lighthouses apart
  8. 8.The journey is very hard

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.3.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.