E Like Bench Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This E Like Bench Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st grade readers a short passage about a red park bench, five multiple-choice questions and an answer key for fun short e practice.
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Description
First graders are learning that each vowel has a short sound, and the short e sound is one of the trickiest to hear. It is the sound in the middle of bench, red and wet. This E Like Bench Reading Comprehension Worksheet puts that sound inside a real text. The short informational passage is all about park benches: what a bench is, a red bench beside a green hedge with a wooden fence behind it, what benches are made of, and what to do when the seat gets wet. It is packed with words such as bench, red, hedge, fence, rest, metal, wet, help and friendly, so children hear and read the short e sound again and again while they read for meaning.
The first page pairs the passage with a bright cut-paper picture of the empty red bench in a sunny park. Five multiple-choice questions follow on their own page, each with three choices and a bubble to fill in, and they are drawn from every paragraph of the text. Read the passage aloud together first, then let students read it on their own before they answer.
What’s Included
- A one-page informational passage about park benches, written at a 1st grade reading level
- A full-color picture of the red park bench from the passage
- Five multiple-choice comprehension questions with three choices each
- An answer key for quick checking
Why It Helps Kids
First, it builds phonics in context: children meet the short e sound in real sentences instead of a word list, which helps the pattern stick. Second, it builds reading for meaning, because every question sends readers back to the text to find the detail that answers it. Third, it builds confidence, since the passage is short, clear and written at a true 1st grade level about a place children visit every week.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Before reading, say the words bench and red and ask children what sound the letter e makes in them. After reading, have them underline every word with the short e sound, then sort the words by their endings, such as -ench, -edge and -et. Use this short e reading passage in a small group or a literacy center, and pair the E Like Bench reading comprehension worksheet with the other short vowel stories in the series for more practice.
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