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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.

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. 1. Put these in order: the whey is drained, rennet is added, the curds are pressed.
  2. 2. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Canal Lock Works

A canal cannot run uphill. Where the land rises, engineers build a lock: a chamber with a gate at each end. A boat going uphill enters the lock through the lower gate. The gate closes behind it. Sluices in the upper gate are opened. Water flows in from the higher stretch of canal, and the boat rises with it. No pump is needed, because the water comes down by gravity. When the water inside matches the level above, the upper gate can be opened and the boat moves on. Going downhill, everything runs the other way: the water is let out, and the boat sinks with it.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a lock need to label?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the upper gate opens, the lower gate closes, the sluices open.

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Answer key — Where, When, Why and How

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Rennet is added, the whey is drained, the curds are pressed. 2. Milk, the starter culture, the split into curds and whey, and the pressed cheese.
  2. 2.1. The lower gate, the upper gate, the sluices, the chamber and the two water levels. 2. The lower gate closes, the sluices open, the upper gate opens.

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