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 4 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 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?

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Night the Lamp Went Out

Grace's father kept the lighthouse. On the worst night of the winter, the lamp went out. He was ill in bed. Grace was eleven. She carried the oil up ninety-seven steps in the dark, twice, because the can was too heavy to lift full. Her arms shook so much on the second trip that she had to sit down halfway. She trimmed the wick the way she had watched a hundred times. She struck the match on the fourth try. By the time the light swung out across the water, three ships had already turned back. Grace never knew whether she had been in time. She decided not to think about it.

1. What would an illustration of the middle show, and what mood would it create?

LessonPrint · RL.3.7 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What the Illustration Adds

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. A store room stacked with boxes, lit by one desk lamp, with a shelf Priya can point at.
2.1. Grace sitting halfway up the dark stairs with the oil can — exhausted, which is the mood the paragraph carries.

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.