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Maps, Photographs and Words is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on combining an image with the text to understand it, 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, 20 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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Maps, Photographs and Words

RI.3.7

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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. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Morse Code

Morse code turns every letter into a pattern of short and long signals: dots and dashes. The commonest letters were given the shortest patterns. E is one dot. T is one dash. Q, which is rare, is dash-dash-dot-dash. Because of that choice, an average message is much shorter than it would be otherwise. A message can be sent as sound, as light, or as taps on a pipe. That is why it survived so long: it needs almost no equipment. Timing carries the meaning. A dash is three times as long as a dot. The gap between letters is three dots long, and between words, seven. SOS was chosen because it is easy to recognise: three dots, three dashes, three dots.

  1. 1. What would a diagram of a Morse message need to show?

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Answer key — Maps, Photographs and Words

Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Yeast cells feeding, gas bubbles in the gluten web, and the set bubbles in a baked loaf.
  2. 2.1. The dots, the dashes, and the different gap lengths between letters and words.

Questions about Maps, Photographs and Words

What does the Maps, Photographs and Words worksheet cover?

It practises combining an image with the text to understand it — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RI.3.7: Use maps and photographs with the words to explain what happened. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.

Which Common Core standard does Maps, Photographs and Words practise?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7 — RI.3.7, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.

What age or grade is this worksheet for?

Maps, Photographs and Words is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RI.3.7, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.

Does Maps, Photographs and Words come with an answer key?

Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.

How many different versions of Maps, Photographs and Words can I print?

25 versions, of which 20 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.

Is Maps, Photographs and Words free to print and photocopy?

Yes. Maps, Photographs and Words, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.

Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.3.7?

Yes — “Maps, Photographs and Where, When and Why” is a 40-minute Grade 3 plan for RI.3.7, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Maps, Photographs and Words is the practice that follows it.

More practice for RI.3.7

Use maps and photographs with the words to explain what happened.

Teaching this next? Maps, Photographs and Where, When and Why is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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