📖 Reading Literature: The Fox and the Stork (Grade 3)

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Read the story. Then answer using details from the text.

The Fox and the Stork (a retold fable)

Fox invited Stork to dinner. He served soup on a flat plate and lapped it up quickly. Stork, with her long, thin beak, could only dip the tip and stayed hungry.

"Did you not like the soup?" asked Fox with a grin.

The next week, Stork invited Fox to dinner. She served stew in a tall jar with a narrow neck. Stork reached in easily with her beak, but Fox could only lick the rim.

"I am only treating you as you treated me," said Stork. Fox walked home hungry and a little wiser.

1. What did Fox serve the soup on?

2. Why couldn’t Stork eat at Fox’s house?

3. How did Stork teach Fox a lesson?

4. What is the lesson of the fable?

Theme: What lesson or message does the story share? Use a detail.

Answer key: 1) a flat plate · 2) her long thin beak couldn’t drink from a flat plate · 3) she served stew in a tall narrow jar Fox couldn’t reach into · 4) treat others the way you want to be treated · Theme: Treat others the way you want to be treated.

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About this grade 3 worksheet

Free Grade 3 English worksheet (Common Core RL.3.1): read "The Fox and the Stork (a retold fable)" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 3 — also suits Year 4 (UK).

For teachers: skills & standards

CCSS RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions, referring explicitly to the text
CCSS RL.3.2: Recount stories and determine the central message, lesson or moral
CCSS RL.3.3: Describe characters and explain how their actions contribute to events
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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Key ideas and details in literature.

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