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Reading Comprehension Skills

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Reading Comprehension Skills

Read each passage carefully. Use details from the text to answer the questions. For questions that say “select all,” more than one choice is correct.

Main Ideas and Supporting Details

The Garden Helpers A school garden needs more than seeds and sunshine. Each week, a group of students pulls weeds, loosens the soil, and checks the plants for dry leaves. They take turns watering the garden so that every bed gets enough moisture. By working together, the students help vegetables grow and learn how to care for living things.

1.Which statement best expresses the main idea of “The Garden Helpers”?
  • Students work together to care for a school garden.
  • Vegetables grow best in dry soil.
  • Every plant has dry leaves.
  • Students should plant only seeds.
2.Select all details from the passage that support the idea that the students care for the garden.
  • They pull weeds and loosen the soil.
  • They take turns watering the garden.
  • They learn to care for living things.
  • They wait for someone else to water the plants.
3.Write one sentence that summarizes “The Garden Helpers.”

Making Inferences

The Missing Mittens When Eli reached the bus stop, he noticed that his hands felt cold. He looked inside his backpack, then checked the pockets of his coat. A trail of tiny snowprints led from the sidewalk toward the front porch. Beside the steps lay one red mitten, dusted with snow. Eli followed the prints and heard a soft meow behind a flowerpot.

4.What is the most reasonable inference about the prints and the sound Eli hears?
  • A small animal may have walked to the porch and hidden nearby.
  • A bus left tracks beside the flowerpot.
  • Eli's backpack is making a meowing sound.
  • The snow melted into footprints.
5.What might have happened to Eli’s red mitten? Use one clue from the passage to support your inference.
6.Why does Eli probably follow the prints toward the porch?

Summarizing

From Flower to Fruit Many fruits begin as flowers. After a flower is pollinated, its petals may fall away and the base of the flower can begin to grow. Over time, that part develops into fruit, which holds seeds. Animals and people may eat the fruit and carry its seeds to new places. In this way, plants can grow in more areas.

7.Select all details that belong in a summary of “From Flower to Fruit.”
  • Some flowers develop into fruit after pollination.
  • Fruit holds seeds that may be carried to new places.
  • The petals of a flower can be many different colors.
  • Moving seeds can help plants grow in more areas.
  • Fruit is the best snack to eat.
8.Write a two- or three-sentence summary of “From Flower to Fruit.” Include the important steps and leave out opinions.

3 printable pages

  • Reading passages and questions about main ideas, science fair seedlings, and supporting details.

    Page 1

  • Inference practice using clues from a science fair bridge model.

    Page 2

  • A water-cycle passage with summary questions and a visual cycle illustration.

    Page 3

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