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 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.
17 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two students 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. How would a photograph of a cut loaf help?
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 recognize: three dots, three dashes, three dots.
1. How would a table help a reader of this text?
LessonPrint · RI.3.5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Which Feature Would Help?
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It would show the trapped bubbles as holes, which is the text's conclusion.
2.1. A table of letters against their dot-and-dash patterns would let a reader look one up.
Questions about Which Feature Would Help?
What does the Which Feature Would Help? worksheet cover?
It practices saying what a text feature would add here — 2 questions for Grade 3, all on Common Core RI.3.5: Use key words, sidebars and links to find what you need fast. 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 Which Feature Would Help? practice?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5 — RI.3.5, under Reading: Informational Text for Grade 3. The published standard reads: “Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Which Feature Would Help? is written for Grade 3, typically ages 8-9. It is one of the sheets on RI.3.5, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Which Feature Would Help? 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 Which Feature Would Help? can I print?
25 versions, of which 17 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two students still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is Which Feature Would Help? free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Which Feature Would Help?, 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 RI.3.5
Use key words, sidebars and links to find what you need fast.