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Kindergarten Reading Worksheet
Read the story. Circle the character each question asks about.
Read this first
By the pond, a frog jumps. A bird sings in the tree. A fish swims in the water.
Who jumps?
Who sings in the tree?
Who swims in the water?
The characters are the people or animals a story is about, and finding them is the first thing a young reader learns to do with a text. Understanding who did what is how children begin to answer questions about a story, rather than only listening to it. This worksheet gives one short story, printed once at the top, with three animal characters and one sentence about each. Below it come three questions, each asking who did one of the things in the story, and the child circles the picture of that animal.
Standard and challenge sheets add a fourth picture of an animal that is not in the story, so the child has to check the story and not only choose a favorite. Read the story aloud together first, then let your child find each sentence again before answering. Ask what the story would be like with a different animal.
Common Core standard: RL.K.3
The story says: a hen sits on a nest. The question asks: who sits on a nest? The answer is the hen, so circle the picture of the hen.
Choosing the character the child likes best, or one in the story who did something else.
Find the sentence in the story that matches the question.
Choosing the character the child likes best, or one in the story who did something else.
Find the sentence in the story that matches the question.
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