What the Illustration Adds is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on explaining how a picture creates mood or emphasis, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.7. 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 23 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 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 the Illustration Adds

RL.3.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Wrong Bus

Halim was two stops past the school before he looked up. The bus was going the other way. He had got on at the same shelter, in the same rain, and never checked the number. His stomach dropped. He thought about crying and decided against it, because it would not help. He read the route map above the window. He worked out that the 41 came back the same way. He rang the bell, got off, crossed at the lights, and waited eleven minutes for the 41. He was twenty minutes late. Mrs Achebe asked what happened. "I got the wrong bus," said Halim, "and then I got the right one."

1. What would an illustration of the turning point show?

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Museum Key (a scene from a play)

SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp. PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf. JON: You are sure it was this shelf? PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure. JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday. PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space. (Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.) JON: That is worse. PRIYA: I know.

1. What would a set design for this scene need to show?

LessonPrint · RL.3.7 · Set 23 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What the Illustration Adds

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. Halim standing on the moving bus, reading the route map above the window.
2.1. A store room stacked with boxes, lit by one desk lamp, with a shelf Priya can point at.

More practice for RL.3.7

Explain what the illustrations add to the mood or the characters.

Teaching this next? What the Illustrations Contribute is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.