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2nd Grade Reading Comprehension worksheets

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Reading Comprehension

Grade 2 Reading Worksheet - Challenge Me

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Read the story. Circle the best answer.

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Bus Trouble
Early on a cold morning, Zoe rode the bus on a country road. A sharp nail was in the road, and the bus got a flat tire. The driver changed the tire while Zoe and the other children sang songs.
1.
Who is the story about?
- The bus driver and a police officer
- Zoe and her father
- Zoe and the bus driver
2.
What happened in the story?
- The bus got stuck in the mud
- The bus got a flat tire
- The bus ran out of gas
3.
Where did the story take place?
- on a country road
- on a city street
- in the school parking lot
4.
When did the story take place?
- at noon on a sunny Saturday
- late on a hot afternoon
- early on a cold morning
5.
Why did it happen?
- The driver forgot to stop
- A big rock rolled onto the road
- A sharp nail was in the road

2nd Grade Reading Comprehension worksheet 1 – printable PDF — Download PDF: 1 2 3 4 5 6

About this worksheet

Good readers ask five questions about every story: who, what, where, when and why. Who tells the characters, what tells the main event, where tells the place, when tells the time, and why tells the reason that something happened. When a second grader can answer all five, they have found the main parts of the story and can retell it. This worksheet prints a short story and then asks one question for each of the five W words.

Each question has three choices, and only one of them is true of the story. Ask your child to read the story twice, the second time with a finger under the key words, and to point to the place in the story where each answer is found before circling it. That habit of going back to the text is the heart of the Common Core standard for this skill.

What your child will learn

Ask who, what, where, when and why about a story
Find each answer in the text
Tell the main parts of a story

Common Core standard: RL.2.1

Worked example

In The Lost Mitten, the story is about Ben and his friend Mia (who), it takes place on the school playground (where) and on a snowy Monday morning (when).