STD III MARKING SCHEME

F.M.50
SECTION – A (READING – 10 Marks)

Q1. Unseen passage 05

Short questions [2]
MCQ [2]
Word attack (Synonym or Antonym) [1]
Q2.Known poem 05
Short question [2]
Rhyming words [1]
Fill in the blanks [2]

SECTION – B (WRITING- 10 Marks)

Q3. Story writing (Complete with 5 words) 05

2 Options/ stories will be given. Out of which, you’ll do the one

which you feel is easy.

Q4. PICTURE COMPOSITION (50-60 words) 05

[TOPIC-Sea Beach, Birthday Party, A Park, Railway Station]

A picture will be given in the question paper, students will have

to see that and write down the paragraph. You can either write
paragraph-wise or point-wise.

OR
POSTER DESIGNING (30 – 40 words)

[TOPIC-Save Water, Save Trees, Save Animals, Say No To

Plastic]

Draw a full page box, write the TOPIC’S NAME in capital letters
and underline it in the first line. Write down minimum 3
SLOGANS, Draw the picture and colour it [use plastic crayons]
and in the LAST LINE write down the ISSUING
AUTHORITY[Issued by--]
 SECTION – C (GRAMMAR- 15 Marks)

Q5. Underline the common noun OR proper noun 03

Q6. Fill in the blanks with correct REPLACING WORDS. 03

Q7. How many? (Numbers) (Change the Underlined word to its

correct Singular or Plural) 03

Q8. Describing words (Complete the passage by choosing the

correct describing words) (MCQ) 03

Q9. Verbs (Fill in the blanks using the appropriate verbs given in
the bracket) 03

SECTION –D (LITERATURE – 15 Marks)

Q10. Reference to context (Prose-MCQ) 04

Q11. Any 4 questions out of 5 questions—PROSE 08

--Each question carries 2 marks

Q12. One value-based question(30 to 40 words) 2+1=3

(Anyone 1 question out of 2 questions from prose)

PROSE CHAPTERS- DOLPHINS,DOGS,THE CANARY, THE

OSTRICH AND THE HEDGEHOG, THE GOD OF RIVER, MINU
AND DINO, TREES

POEM AT THE ZOO, TREES ARE THE KINDEST THINGS I

KNOW

ALL THE BEST CHILDREN !!!