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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.

Why Bread Rises

Yeast is alive. It is a fungus, and each grain of dried yeast holds millions of cells waiting for water. Add warm water and the cells wake up. They begin to feed on the sugars in the flour. As they feed, they give off carbon dioxide gas. The gas cannot escape, because kneading the dough has built a stretchy web of gluten that traps it. Thousands of tiny bubbles form, and the dough swells. In the oven, two things happen. The trapped gas expands in the heat, so the loaf rises further. Then the heat kills the yeast and sets the gluten, and the bubbles are locked in place. That is why bread has holes in it.

  1. 1. How would a photograph of a cut loaf help?
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. How would a labelled diagram help a reader of this text?

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Answer key — Which Feature Would Help?

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It would show the trapped bubbles as holes, which is the text's conclusion.
  2. 2.1. It could show both gates, the sluices and the two water levels at once, which words have to take in turn.

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