A Broken Leg Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This A Broken Leg Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 3rd grade students a warm, on-level story about a classmate in a cast, with four questions, a written response, and an answer key included.
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Description
The A Broken Leg Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives your students a short, kind story to read closely and then answer questions about. Reading comprehension at 3rd grade asks a student to do two jobs at once: follow what happens in a story, and go back into the text to find the exact words that prove an answer. This sheet keeps both jobs in view. Andrea comes back to school with a bright blue cast on her leg, worried about the long hallway and the steep stairs, and her classmate Norah quietly makes the whole day easier for her. The story is warm, the vocabulary sits on grade level, and every question can be answered straight from the page.
Print the sheet and read the passage together, or let students read it on their own first. Page one holds the story and a full-colour illustration of the moment Norah signs the cast. Page two carries the Name and Date line, four multiple-choice questions, and one written response that asks students to gather more than one detail before they answer. Model the first question out loud, showing students how to underline the sentence in the story that proves the choice, then let them work through the rest independently. The answer key on the last page names the evidence, so marking takes a minute.
What’s Included
- A one-page original story, A Broken Leg, written and measured for 3rd grade readers
- An original full-colour illustration of the story’s main moment
- Four multiple-choice comprehension questions, including one that asks students to explain why a character acted
- One written-response question with ruled writing space
- A complete answer key that mirrors the question page
This 3rd grade reading comprehension worksheet helps students in three ways. First, it builds the habit of reading for evidence, because every answer is sitting somewhere in the text and can be pointed to. Second, it stretches comprehension past plain recall: one question asks why a character did something, and the written response asks students to collect details from more than one paragraph before they write. Third, it gives reluctant readers a story worth finishing, about friendship and small kindnesses, so the practice feels like reading rather than testing.
Teachers and parents can stretch the sheet further. Ask students to retell the story from Norah’s side, or to write the next day at school in three sentences. Have partners take turns reading a paragraph aloud and asking each other one question about it. Use the story as a writing prompt about a time someone helped them, or a time they helped a friend. Keep a copy in a reading centre or a sub folder, and pair it with the A Broken Leg Reading Comprehension Worksheet answer key so any adult can check the work.
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