Challenge your third and fourth graders to look deeply into a text with a reading comprehension activity. After learners finish the short passage, they answer four questions that range in levels of difficulty and analysis.

Concepts

reading comprehension, short stories

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a reading assessment or language arts homework packet
• Encourage young readers to share their responses with a partner before participating in a class discussion
• Use the reading activity as a writing prompt, during which your class can write about an event in their life, as well as four similar comprehension questions for peers to answer

Classroom Considerations

• The story is not very engaging and feels incomplete, but it is short and the questions are good for checking understanding

Pros

• Questions are helpful for addressing the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy
• Single-page format makes the worksheet an easy addition to a packet or quiz

Cons

• The second question is missing a question mark

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.3 RL.4.1 RL.4.3