1st Grade Levelled Reading: Levels D-G worksheets

About this worksheet

Levels D through G are the next rung on the levelled reading ladder, right after the very first picture-supported books. Sentences grow a little longer, stories start to have a small problem and a solution, and a child is expected to hold onto more than one detail at a time. This is exactly where many first graders stumble: they can read every word aloud correctly, yet cannot say what the character wanted or how the story ended, because they were spending all their effort on the words themselves.

This worksheet prints one Level D-G story and asks ten questions about it: what it is mostly about, who it follows, where it happens, the order of events, a detail that is really in the story, one that is not, how the character feels, and what a key word means. Encourage your child to point back to the sentence that proves each answer. When these come easily, Levels H-K continue the ladder with longer, more detailed stories.

What your child will learn

• Read a longer levelled story with a clear problem and solution
• Identify the main idea of a short story
• Put three story events in the order they happened
• Tell a stated detail from an invented one
• Use context to figure out what a word means