Arnold the Anteater – Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Arnold the Anteater reading comprehension worksheet helps 2nd grade students find facts in an anteater passage, answer four multiple choice questions and a short response, with an answer key included.
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Description
Reading comprehension is the skill of understanding a text, recalling its facts and using details to explain an answer. The Arnold the Anteater Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd grade readers a friendly informational passage about an anteater named Arnold, with questions that send them back to the text for evidence.
Students read about Arnold’s long nose, his even longer tongue, his rough gray and black fur and his big bushy tail. They learn that anteaters love ants and termites, that they have no teeth, and how Arnold digs into an ant hill with his sharp claws and licks up ants with his sticky tongue. After reading, children answer four multiple choice questions and write a short response that names two facts about termites.
What’s Included
- A one-page original passage about Arnold the anteater, with a full-color picture
- Part A: four multiple choice questions with three choices each
- Part B: one short written response that uses two details from the text
- A complete answer key
Why It Helps Kids
First, the passage is written at a 2nd grade reading level, so students can read it on their own and build confidence. Second, the questions move from finding a fact to explaining with two details, which builds the habit of answering with text evidence. Third, the sheet connects reading to science, since children learn real facts about how anteaters find food and why they leave part of an ant hill behind.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Read the passage together, then have students underline the sentences that answer each question. Use the Arnold the Anteater Reading Comprehension Worksheet in an animals unit, a reading center, small group time or homework. Afterward, invite children to draw Arnold at the ant hill and label his snout, tongue, claws and tail. It also works well as a 2nd grade anteater reading passage for a quick comprehension check.
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