Grandparents Day Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Grandparents Day falls on the first Sunday in September, and it is one of the warmest reading topics of the whole school year. This Grandparents Day Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives young readers an original short story about a boy named Walker, a homemade card, and a grandmother who drove a school bus for thirty years. Because the story is built around one clear sequence of events, students can practice finding key details, recalling facts, and explaining a character’s feelings without ever leaving the text. Everything on this grandparents day reading comprehension worksheet is answerable straight from the passage.

The first page carries the illustrated story on its own, so students can read it once for enjoyment and once for details. The second page holds four fill-in-the-bubble questions and one short written response that asks students to explain why the card mattered so much. This 2nd grade family worksheet fits a Grandparents Day lesson, a September holiday unit, a guided reading group, or a quiet independent center, and it works just as well at home as it does in the classroom.

What’s Included

• An original 158-word story written on a 2nd grade reading level
• A full-color illustration of the story’s main moment
• Four multiple-choice questions with three answer choices each
• One short constructed-response question with lines for writing
• A complete answer key with a sample written response

Three Reasons This Helps Kids

• Every answer lives in the text. Each question points back to one sentence in the story, so students build the habit of reading to find evidence instead of guessing from memory.
• The story is short enough to reread. A passage a second grader can finish twice in one sitting is a passage they can actually study, and rereading is where comprehension gains come from.
• It ends with real writing. The final question asks for an explanation rather than a fact, which is the first step toward the constructed responses students meet on later assessments.

Ideas for Teachers and Parents

• Read the story aloud once before students read it themselves, then compare what they noticed each time.
• Have students underline the sentence in the passage that answers each question.
• Ask students to name one thing they would put on a card for their own grandparent or special grown-up.
• Use the illustration as a picture prompt before reading and let students predict what is happening.
• Send the sheet home the week before Grandparents Day and invite families to write back.

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