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2nd Grade Reading Comprehension worksheets

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Reading Comprehension

Grade 2 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence

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Read the story. Circle the best answer.

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The Lost Mitten
On a snowy Monday morning, Ben walked to school. He dropped his red mitten on the playground. His hands were very cold, so he searched everywhere. At last his friend Mia found the mitten by the swings and gave it back.
1.
Who is the story about?
- Mia and her teacher
- Ben and his friend Mia
- Ben and his big brother
2.
What happened in the story?
- A red mitten was thrown away
- A snowman was built by the swings
- A lost mitten was found
3.
Where did the story take place?
- on the school playground
- at the school front gate
- inside the warm classroom
4.
When did the story take place?
- on a snowy Monday morning
- on a rainy Wednesday evening
- on a sunny Friday afternoon
5.
Why did it happen?
- Ben's hands were very cold
- Mia had asked him to find it
- Ben was late for class

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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).