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Where, When, Why and How is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on using text and image to answer across an event, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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.

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Where, When, Why and How

RI.3.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Windmill Grinds Flour

A windmill turns moving air into turning stone. The sails are set at a slight angle. Because of that angle, wind pushing on them cannot pass straight through, so it pushes them round instead. The sails turn a horizontal shaft. A large wooden gear on that shaft meshes with a smaller one on an upright shaft, which turns the millstones below. Because the smaller gear has fewer teeth, it spins faster than the sails do. Four turns of the sails can mean twenty turns of the stone. The grain falls between two stones. The top stone turns; the bottom one does not. The grain is crushed between them, and flour comes out at the edge.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a windmill need to label?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the millstones turn, the sails turn, the gears mesh.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why Swallows Leave

Swallows do not leave Britain because of the cold. They leave because of the insects. A swallow eats flying insects, and it catches them in the air. In October the insects disappear, and a bird that eats nothing else has to follow the food. So swallows fly to southern Africa: about six thousand miles, taking roughly six weeks. They travel by day and feed as they go. They lose about a third of their body weight on the way. Many do not arrive. The following spring they return, and a swallow will often nest in the very barn it hatched in.

  1. 1. What would a map for this text need to show?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the swallows return, the insects disappear, the swallows fly south.

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Answer key — Where, When, Why and How

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The angled sails, the horizontal shaft, both gears, the upright shaft and the two millstones. 2. The sails turn, the gears mesh, the millstones turn.
  2. 2.1. Britain, southern Africa and the route between them. 2. The insects disappear, the swallows fly south, the swallows return.

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