Ask and Answer Questions with Text Evidence

3rd Grade ELAReading Comprehension4 pages

About this worksheet

Leo and Maya turn a trash-filled empty lot into a community garden in "The Empty Lot Project," a story told in five numbered paragraphs. Across four pages, 3rd grade students answer ten questions, and most of them name the paragraph to look in, so the evidence is easy to find and hard to skip. The questions move from right-there recall to quoting exact sentences and then to an opinion backed by two details. It targets RL.3.1. The answer key covers all ten questions, including the sentences students should copy.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RL.3.1

“Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.”

All ten questions. Questions 4 and 6 ask for exact sentences, and questions 9 and 10 ask students to explain answers with evidence from paragraph 5 and the whole story.

What's inside this worksheet

The Empty Lot Project

Students read five numbered paragraphs: a lot full of old tires and juice boxes, posters for "Neighborhood Cleanup Day," fifteen neighbors arriving on Saturday, and Mrs. Lin's small packet of sunflower seeds.

Part 1 Right-There Questions

Three short recall questions ask for two pieces of junk from paragraph 1, the colors of the poster markers, and the first neighbor to arrive.

Part 2 Finding the Evidence

Students copy the sentence that shows Leo was worried, mark true or false for working until dark, prove it with a sentence from paragraph 4, and choose the meaning of "transformed" from three options before naming the clues.

Part 3 Explain Your Thinking

Question 9 asks why Mrs. Lin let Leo and Maya plant the first seeds. Question 10 asks whether they are good leaders, with at least two details from the text.

Answer Key

Model answers for every question, with "What if nobody showed up?" as the sentence for question 4 and a sample opinion for question 10.

How teachers use it

Guided reading group

Do Part 1 together at the table so students see how each question names its paragraph. Then let them try Part 2 alone and watch who rereads before writing. The full sheet takes about 30 minutes.

Close reading lesson

Question 6 is the one to model. Students often write that the work ended at noon in their own words, so show them how to copy "By noon, the lot was completely transformed." word for word.

Opinion talk

Run question 10 as a short spoken debate first. Ask half the class for a detail that shows Leo and Maya lead well, then have everyone write two details down.

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