Post Office Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Children drop a letter in a mailbox and it simply disappears. This Post Office Reading Comprehension Worksheet follows that letter all the way to the other end, so a reader finds out what really happens after the flag goes up. The passage explains what a post office does, what a stamp actually pays for, and the trip a letter takes through a sorting plant, onto a truck or a plane, and into a mail carrier’s bag. Second graders finish it knowing their own community a little better and reading informational text a little more confidently.

This printable 2nd grade community worksheet is built the way a comprehension assessment is built. Page one carries a full-colour street scene and a 159-word informational passage written to the second-grade reading level. Page two holds four multiple-choice questions and one written response that asks for the most important idea in the text. The questions walk from fact to role to application, so a child has to read the whole passage rather than skim the first line. Use it as a community helpers reading block, as guided-reading practice, as a quick comprehension check, or as homework a parent can mark in a minute.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 1 illustrated informational passage, 4 multiple-choice questions and 1 written response

Three things make this Post Office Reading Comprehension Worksheet work harder than a plain question sheet. The passage is measured, not guessed, so the vocabulary and sentence length sit inside the second-grade band instead of a grade or two above it. Every question can be answered from a single sentence in the text, which teaches children to go back and find evidence rather than rely on memory. And the last question asks what a reader should write on a real envelope, so the reading turns into something a child can go and do.

Teachers and parents can build on the passage in a few minutes. Ask children to underline the one sentence that answers each question before they fill in a bubble. Have them address a real envelope to a grandparent, with the street, the town and the zip code on the right lines. Walk to the corner mailbox together and talk about where the letter goes next. Start a class chart of community workers who bring things to your door, with the mail carrier at the top. Each of these keeps the learning going long after the page is finished.

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