Worksheet paper boat

Class 3 – English Worksheet

Lesson: The Paper Boat (NCERT – Santoor)

🌟 Suggested Classroom Activities

• Experiential Learning – Students fold paper boats and float them in water.
• Storytelling with actions – Students mimic folding and sailing boats.
• Art Integration – Decorate boats with flags and write a message.
• Peer Sharing – Students explain the poem to partners.
• Vocabulary Game – Build a “Boat Word Net” on the board.

Q1. Reading Comprehension

A) Objective type (Choose the correct option)
1. Who is sailing the paper boats?
a) A child b) A teacher c) A sailor d) A fisherman
✔ Answer: a) A child

2. What does the child put in the paper boat?
a) Coins b) Flowers c) Paper dolls d) Toys
✔ Answer: b) Flowers

B) Fill in the blanks
3. The child is sailing his boats down the __________.
✔ Answer: stream
4. The boats carry a message written in __________.
✔ Answer: big black letters

C) Open-ended
5. Why do you think the child sends paper boats down the stream?
✔ Answer: To imagine his boats reaching faraway lands and to share his dreams.

📖 Extra Reading Comprehension Passage

One rainy afternoon, a little boy made a paper boat and placed it on the stream near his home. The boat floated quickly, moving past flowers, leaves, and stones. The boy clapped with joy as the water carried his boat away. He dreamed it might reach someone far away.

1. Who made the paper boat?
✔ Answer: A little boy

2. When did he make the boat?
✔ Answer: On a rainy afternoon

3. What did the boat float past?
✔ Answer: Flowers, leaves, and stones

4. How did the boy feel?
✔ Answer: He clapped with joy

5. What did the boy dream about?
✔ Answer: That his boat might reach someone far away

Q2. Questions from the Poem

1. What does the child dream of at night?
✔ Answer: He dreams of his boats floating under the night sky with fairies.

2. Why does he write his name on the paper boats?
✔ Answer: So that the people who find them will know it is his boat.

3. What does the child imagine about the people in strange lands?
✔ Answer: That they will see his boats and read his name on them.

4. How does the child show his imagination through paper boats?
✔ Answer: By filling them with flowers and dreams, and imagining them reaching distant places.

5. Do you also like to make paper boats? Why/why not?
✔ Answer: (Students’ own answers)

Q3. Grammar Practice

1. Pick out the nouns: ✔ boat, stream, sky, flower

2. Plural forms: ✔ boats, flowers, dreams, stars

3. Adjectives: ✔ little, strange, happy, paper

4. Opposites:
- big → small
- near → far
- day → night
- happy → sad

5. Fill with is/are:
- The boats are floating.
- My name is written on the paper.

6. Sentence with "dream": ✔ I dream of sailing my paper boat.

7. Verbs: ✔ float, write, play, sing

8. Rearranged: ✔ The child is sailing the boats.

9. -ing forms: ✔ sailing, playing, singing, dreaming

10. Rhyming words:
- boat → coat, goat
- stream → dream, team

Class 3 – English Worksheet

Lesson: The Paper Boat (NCERT – Santoor)

🌟 Suggested Classroom Activities

• Experiential Learning – Students fold paper boats and float them in water.
• Storytelling with actions – Students mimic folding and sailing boats.
• Art Integration – Decorate boats with flags and write a message.
• Peer Sharing – Students explain the poem to partners.
• Vocabulary Game – Build a “Boat Word Net” on the board.

Q1. Reading Comprehension

A) Objective type (Choose the correct option)
1. Who is sailing the paper boats?
a) A child b) A teacher c) A sailor d) A fisherman
✔ Answer: a) A child

2. What does the child put in the paper boat?
a) Coins b) Flowers c) Paper dolls d) Toys
✔ Answer: b) Flowers

B) Fill in the blanks
3. The child is sailing his boats down the __________.
✔ Answer: stream
4. The boats carry a message written in __________.
✔ Answer: big black letters

C) Open-ended
5. Why do you think the child sends paper boats down the stream?
✔ Answer: To imagine his boats reaching faraway lands and to share his dreams.

Q2. Questions from the Poem

1. What does the child dream of at night?
✔ Answer: He dreams of his boats floating under the night sky with fairies.

2. Why does he write his name on the paper boats?
✔ Answer: So that the people who find them will know it is his boat.

3. What does the child imagine about the people in strange lands?
✔ Answer: That they will see his boats and read his name on them.

4. How does the child show his imagination through paper boats?
✔ Answer: By filling them with flowers and dreams, and imagining them reaching distant places.

5. Do you also like to make paper boats? Why/why not?
✔ Answer: (Students’ own answers)

Q3. Grammar Practice

1. Pick out the nouns: ✔ boat, stream, sky, flower

2. Plural forms: ✔ boats, flowers, dreams, stars

3. Adjectives: ✔ little, strange, happy, paper

4. Opposites:
- big → small
- near → far
- day → night
- happy → sad

5. Fill with is/are:
- The boats are floating.
- My name is written on the paper.

6. Sentence with "dream": ✔ I dream of sailing my paper boat.

7. Verbs: ✔ float, write, play, sing

8. Rearranged: ✔ The child is sailing the boats.

9. -ing forms: ✔ sailing, playing, singing, dreaming

10. Rhyming words:
- boat → coat, goat
- stream → dream, team