Supporting Details is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on holding on to the details that support an idea, aligned to Common Core standard SL.3.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp.
PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf.
JON: You are sure it was this shelf?
PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure.
JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday.
PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space.
(Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.)
JON: That is worse.
PRIYA: I know.
1. Where is this scene set?
2. Recount what happens in this scene.
3. What is the only light in the room?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Chestnut
First stanza:
Inside the green and spiny case,
packed in a lining soft as silk,
it waits all summer in the dark
and grows the color of stained milk.
Second stanza:
Then autumn cracks the case in two.
It falls. It hits the path and shines
so hard and bright and newly made
you cannot walk past it. Nobody can.
Third stanza:
By Sunday it is dull and cracked
and lighter than it was before —
a small brown stone inside a pocket,
and no one wants it anymore.
1. Retell what happens across this poem.
2. What has happened to the chestnut by Sunday?
3. What is inside the green and spiny case?
LessonPrint · SL.3.2 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Supporting Details
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The museum store room, at night. 2. Priya and Jon search the museum store room at night for something Priya dusted on Tuesday, and realize it may have gone before then. 3. A single desk lamp.
2.1. A chestnut waits inside its spiny case all summer, falls and shines in autumn, and within days is dull and forgotten in a pocket. 2. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 3. A chestnut.
Questions about Supporting Details
What does the Supporting Details worksheet cover?
It practices holding on to the details that support an idea — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core SL.3.2: Pick out the main ideas and details from something you heard or saw. The instruction to students is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Supporting Details practice?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.2 — SL.3.2, under Speaking & Listening for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Supporting Details is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on SL.3.2, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Supporting Details 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 Supporting Details can I print?
25 — one per student, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Supporting Details free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Supporting Details, 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.
More practice for SL.3.2
Pick out the main ideas and details from something you heard or saw.