Donald Trump Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Reading comprehension is the skill of pulling meaning out of a text — finding facts, following a sequence of events, and explaining ideas in your own words. This Donald Trump Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives third graders a short, factual biography to practice on. Students read a passage about the 45th and 47th President of the United States, then answer questions that send them back into the text for evidence. The passage is written and measured at a third-grade reading level, so students build stamina and confidence instead of stalling on hard vocabulary.

The worksheet opens with an illustrated passage page: a full-color painted scene of the White House sits above a tinted passage panel, so students can picture the setting before they read a word. The questions page follows, with a name and date line at the top. Use this 3rd grade America worksheet as a guided reading follow-up, a social studies center, an early-finisher activity, or homework. A good routine is to read the passage once for the story, then read it again with a pencil in hand, underlining each answer as it turns up.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 3 pages: an illustrated biography passage, a questions page, and the answer key
• 7 questions: 4 multiple choice, 2 fill-in-the-blank, and 1 written response

There are three reasons this Donald Trump Reading Comprehension Worksheet helps students grow as readers. First, every question can be answered straight from the passage, so students learn to hunt for text evidence instead of guessing. Second, the three question types climb in difficulty, moving from bubble-in recall, to a fill-in-the-blank detail, to a written response that asks students to gather two facts and put them into their own sentences. Third, a biography is nonfiction, and nonfiction is where most reading assessments live. Students meet dates, places, and sequence words inside a passage short enough to finish in one sitting.

Teachers and parents can stretch the lesson in plenty of directions. Have students build a timeline from the dates in the passage, or draw the New York skyline the text describes. Ask each student to write one more question they wish the passage had answered, then look it up together. Pair the sheet with a map of Washington, D.C., or with a class chart of the presidents. For a quick speaking activity, have partners retell the biography in five sentences without looking back at the page.

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