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Which Feature Would Help? is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on saying what a text feature would add here, aligned to Common Core standard RI.3.5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 17 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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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 17 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.

Which Feature Would Help?

RI.3.5

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. How would a labelled diagram help a reader of this text?
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. How would a map help a reader of this text?

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Answer key — Which Feature Would Help?

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It could show both gates, the sluices and the two water levels at once, which words have to take in turn.
  2. 2.1. It could show the six thousand miles between Britain and southern Africa, which a number alone does not convey.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.3.5 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.