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From Grape to Raisin: Steps in the Sun

Grade 3 informational reading on how grapes are dried into raisins, with sequence and cause-and-effect questions.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.3.3

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students describe the steps in a process using sequence words such as first, next and finally.
Students explain how one step in a process causes a change in the next.

How to use

Have students read the article and underline each time-order word before answering. Share a few raisins and grapes to compare while you discuss the answers.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.3.3

Describe how historical events, science ideas, or steps in a procedure are related, using words about time, sequence, and cause and effect.

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From Grape to Raisin: Steps in the Sun

Read how juicy grapes become sweet, chewy raisins.

Read the article

Read the article. Notice the words that tell the order of the steps.

From Grape to Raisin

1A raisin is a grape that has been dried. Raisins are small, sweet and chewy, so many families pack them in lunches or stir them into oatmeal. But how does a juicy grape become a wrinkly raisin? On many farms, the sun does most of the work.

2First, farmers wait until late summer, when the grapes are ripe and full of sugar. Then workers cut the bunches from the vines. They lay the grapes on paper trays on the ground between the rows of vines.

3Next, the grapes sit in the hot sun for a few weeks. During this time, the sun's heat dries them out. As the water leaves each grape, the grape shrinks and its skin wrinkles. Its color changes too, from green to dark brown.

4While the grapes are drying, workers may turn them over so both sides get sun. This helps the grapes dry evenly.

5When the grapes are dry, workers gather them up. After that, the raisins go to a factory, where machines clean them and take off the stems. Finally, the raisins are packed into boxes and bags.

6Because so much water dries out, a big pile of grapes turns into a much smaller pile of raisins. The sugar stays behind, which is why raisins taste so sweet.

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