Title card for Reading Comprehension Grade 1 with two tilted story pages, The Slow Bean and The Goat and the Sign, and notes: 30 short stories, 4 questions each, answer keys, Letter and A4.
  • Title card for Reading Comprehension Grade 1 with two tilted story pages, The Slow Bean and The Goat and the Sign, and notes: 30 short stories, 4 questions each, answer keys, Letter and A4.
  • Two pages side by side: the story A Name for the Turtle with four multiple choice questions, and the same page from the key with green answers and proof sentences.
  • A grid of twelve small story pages under the heading 30 different stories, each captioned with its story number.
  • The page Far Down the Street, a short story in a box with four questions below, beside text saying each story has 40 to 60 words and sentences of at most 11 words.
  • The page Over the Fence with a short story and four questions, each with choices A to C and a label such as Detail, Order, Why or Main idea at the right.
  • The key page for Fort by the Water, with green answers and the story sentence that proves each one, next to text about keys that show why.
  • Panel listing the files: a US Letter PDF of 65 pages and an A4 PDF of 65 pages, plus a Start Here PDF with print settings.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Here are 30 short stories for a child who has only just started reading alone. Every story gets its own page, and four questions with three choices each sit below it. There are no pictures, so the child has to find the answer in the words. The stories are small events, such as a lost glove, a stuck zipper and a hole full of rain. Every question has three choices and a label on the right edge: Detail, Order, Why or Main idea. After the stories come the answer pages. The answer is printed in green along with the story sentence that proves it, so a grown-up can see why a choice is right. The contents page links to each story, and each page has a line for a name. If you are unsure where to begin, the Start Here PDF suggests trying page 5 first.

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What's included

  • Reading-Comprehension-Grade-1-Letter.pdf, 65 pages
  • Reading-Comprehension-Grade-1-A4.pdf, 65 pages
  • Start-Here-Reading-Comprehension-Grade-1.pdf, which file to use, print settings

How it works

  1. Two pages side by side: the story A Name for the Turtle with four multiple choice questions, and the same page from the key with green answers and proof sentences.
    Story and its key A story page with four questions beside the same page from the key. The key shows the answer in green and the sentence that proves it.
  2. A grid of twelve small story pages under the heading 30 different stories, each captioned with its story number.
    30 different stories A grid of story pages in mixed order, each captioned with its story number.
  3. The page Far Down the Street, a short story in a box with four questions below, beside text saying each story has 40 to 60 words and sentences of at most 11 words.
    Short and plain The story Far Down the Street with its four questions. A script measured the word counts, sentence lengths and grade level.
  4. The page Over the Fence with a short story and four questions, each with choices A to C and a label such as Detail, Order, Why or Main idea at the right.
    Labelled questions The story Over the Fence. Each question has three choices and a label at the right: Detail, Order, Why or Main idea.
  5. The key page for Fort by the Water, with green answers and the story sentence that proves each one, next to text about keys that show why.
    Keys that show why The key page for Fort by the Water, with each answer in green and the sentence from the story that proves it.

Compatibility and file formats

Print PDF. Page sizes in the files: US Letter 612 x 792 pt and A4 595 x 842 pt. A script confirmed the sizes, that the fonts are embedded and that no ink falls within 0.25 inch of the page edge. Test printing on a real printer has not been recorded for this file.

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Questions

How hard are the stories?

A script measured every story on the final file: each has a Flesch-Kincaid grade of 2.5 or under. That formula looks at sentence and word length only. It says nothing about one child, so try page 5 first.

Are there pictures?

No. The stories and questions are all text.

Where are the answers?

After the stories, in the same order. Each key has the page's code and names its page number.

Could a child do this without a grown-up?

Some can. Others will want the first few read aloud. Page 4 of the file explains the pages.

Printer and paper are not included. These are practice pages, not lesson plans and not a reading test. They make no promise about results. Digital files cannot be returned once downloaded; if a file does not open or a link is broken, send a message through Etsy. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the stories, the questions, the listing text, the how-to text and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: word counts, sentence lengths, the reading grade formula, that each key points at the choice the writer marked right and quotes a real sentence, and that a key equals its page plus green. A second AI pass answered the questions without seeing the key, and its answers were compared with the key. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.