Pre-K reading comprehension worksheets

2 worksheets ready to print: Ben Finds a Shell, The Red Fire Truck.

8 more passages in Pre-K come with a PlayOwl plan. Pip Is Hungry, Rain on the Window, What Bees Do, The Snowy Hat, A Cow on the Farm, Kim and the Sunflower, Brush, Brush, Brush, The Sleepy Owl.

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Reading Comprehension · Pre-K

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Ben Finds a Shell

Story · 2 questions

Picture: A boy in a yellow sun hat kneels on wet sand by small blue waves. A red ball, a little orange crab and a pink shell lie on the sand around him.

Ben is at the beach. He finds a pink shell. He holds it up to his ear.

Written for PlayOwl

Questions

Grown-up: read the story and each question aloud. Your child colors in the circle under the picture that answers it.

  1. 1What does Ben find?

    • a crab A
    • a shell B
    • a ball C

  1. 2Where does Ben hold the shell?

    • on his head A
    • in a bucket B
    • by his ear C
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Reading Comprehension · Pre-K

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The Red Fire Truck

True facts · 2 questions

Picture: A sunny city street beside a small park with a slide and a wooden bench. Only the front of a shiny fire truck, its cab and bumper, pokes in at the left edge of the picture; the rest of it is out of view. A firefighter with tan skin and a dark braid, in a yellow helmet and a yellow coat, waves from the curb.

This fire truck is red. It has a long ladder. It carries water too.

Written for PlayOwl

Questions

Grown-up: read the passage and each question aloud. Your child colors in the circle under the picture that answers it.

  1. 1What does this fire truck carry?

    • water A
    • hay B
    • apples C

  1. 2What long thing does the fire truck have?

    • a slide A
    • a ladder B
    • a bench C